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Of sudden diseases. By Dr. John Pechey of the College of Physicians, London, at his house in Robin-Hood's-Court, the Lower End of Bowlane, near Bazing-Lane, Cheapside
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Pechey, John, 1655-1716.
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which must be repeated twice three Days betwixt each Purge and every Night going to Bed the Woman must take 5 Spoonfuls of my Cordial for the Bloody Flux thro' the whole Course of the Disease And after she has been purged thrice she must take the Quantity of a large Nutmeg of my Electuary for the immoderate Flux of the Courses in the Morning and at 5 in the Afternoon daily drinking presently after each Dose of the Electuary 6 Spoonfuls of my Julep for an immoderate Flux of the Courses The Pot contains about 3 Ounces of the Electuary Price 2 s. 6 d. The Viol of the Julep contains 8 Ounces Price 1 s. 6 d. This Method and these Medicines also cure the Whites in Women Sometimes the Courses come with violent Pain sometimes they come before their due time and stay longer than they should and sometimes break out from Places not natural For each of these Diseases I have a proper Remedy An excellent Cordial Mixture for Weakly Women near the time of Delivery THIS Restorative Cordial Mixture wonderfully strengthens the Mother and Child it quickens and revives the Spirits is very good for the Stomach and expels Wind and cheers the Heart and comforts the Womb and makes the Mother and Child so vigorous and lively that if a Spoonful of it be taken twice a Day a Month before lying in it procures an happy Delivery and renders the Child brisk and lusty The Bottle contains 8 Ounces Price 3 s. The Cordial Drops THESE Drops are excellent for Mother-Fits Faintings Swoonings and Sinking of the Spirits for an Apoplexy and Trembling and Palpitation of the Heart Giddiness Falling-Sickness Wind Disorders of the Brain and Womb they quicken the Senses revive the Spirits and are of great Use to prevent Infection in sickly Seasons and they are of such great and wonderful Vertue that People subject to these sudden and dangerous Diseases ought to have them always by them The Dose is from 20 to 30 Drops according to the Age and Strength in a Glass of Canary or White-wine or in a Dish of Tea or the like They may be given in the Fit or in the Morning Fasting or at Night going to Bed Price 1 s. the Ounce The Pouder for Childrens Convulsions COnvulsions in Children are very frequent and they are chiefly subject to them in the first Months and at the Time they breed their Teeth But they also happen at other times and proceed from other Causes in such as are disposed to them This Pouder is an approved Remedy for these Convulsions a Paper of it being given the Child Morning and Evening till the Fits go off especially two or three Days before every New and Full Moon in a Spoonful of Black Cherry-water or the like but if the Child be in the first Months or very Young half a Paper is a sufficient Dose The Price of 12 Papers 3 s. An Excellent and Approved Oyl for Childrens Gripes GRipes frequently happen to Childreâ— either with a Looseness or without it and if they continue long they weaken Children and occasion Convulsions Anoint the Child's Navel and Pit of the Stomach with this Oyl a little warm'd and you will find it to be an excellent Remedy Price 1 s. the Dram. My Excellent Water for the Bloody-Flux Hysteric Colick Violent Loosenesses Griping of the Guts Stone in the Kidneys and the Gout when striken in THis Water is an admirable Remedy for the Bloody-Flux the Griping of the Guts and Pains of the Stomach and for sharp and corroding Humours in the Bowels for vomiting and spitting of Blood and for violent Loosenesses and for an immoderate Flux of the Courses and an excellent Remedy to prevent Miscarriage when any violent Pain or Perturbation arises in a a Woman with Child It chears the Heart and revives the languishing Spirits and strengthens and comforts the Womb. It is good in the Small-pox and Measles when the Sick is restless and Light-headed and when the Fever is high or when the Small-pox don't rise well When the Gout is striken in upon the Stomach or Bowels and threatens sudden Death this Water is a sovereign Remedy and relieves the Sick to Admiration For the Stone in the Kidneys assoon as one any is seiz'd with a Fit of it setting aside all other Remedies let him presently drink a Gallon of Posset-drink wherein two Ounces of the Roots of Marsh-Mallows have been boil'd and let the following Glyster be injected Take of the Roots of Marshmallows and Lillies each one Ounce of the Leaves of Mallows and Pellitory of the Wall and of the Flowers of Camomil each one Handful of Flax and Fennigreck Seeds each half an Ounce boil them in a sufficient Quantity of Water to a Pint and an half dissolve in the strained Liquor brown Sugar and Syrup of Marsh-Mallows each two Ounces mingle them and make a Glyster Assoon as he had render'd all the Posset-drink by Vomiting and rejected the Glyster let him take half the Bottle of Water and keep himself as quiet as possible in Bed The Water must be taken in the same Quantity when the Gout is striken in upon the Bowels or Stomach and the Patient must keep himself Quiet in Bed For the Gripes a Man or Woman may take 5 or 6 Spoonfuls a Child according to the Age and Strength 1 2 or 3 Spoonfuls for a violent Looseness or Bloody-Flux 2 Spoonfuls must be taken after every Stool and a Man or Woman must take 6 Spoonfuls going to Bed every Night as long as the Flux continues For an immoderate Flux of the Courses or Whites 5 Spoonfuls must be taken every Night or every other Night according to the Violence of the Disease for a Week To prevent Miscarriage the Woman must take 5 or 6 Spoonfuls and keep her self Quiet in Bed For the Small-pox and Measles a grown Person must take 5 or 6 Spoonfuls a Child 1 2 or 3 Spoonfuls according to the Age. The Bottle contains Eight Ounces Price 2 d. 6 d. My Water to stop Bleeding at Nose THis Water stops Bleeding at Nose Lint in the form of Tent being dipp'd in it and put up the Nostril from whence the Blood flows And if you apply a Linnen Rag doubled being first dipp'd in this Water to a Wound it will presently stop the Blood but you must keep your Fingers upon the Rag about half an Hour And if an Artery be cut it stops the Blood being used as above directed and kept on awhile with your Hand This Water having been used with great Success upon several Occasions may well deserve a Place here and whoever tries it will find it an Excellent Remedy My Julep to stop Violent Vomiting THis Julep for Vomiting is the most effectual Remedy that was ever found out for it scarce ever fails to stop Vomiting in a short time when all other Medicines will not do it It must be taken all at once and the Sick must keep his Bed or lie down for some Hours Price I s.
betwixt 7 and 14 may take half a Paper for Children under 7 a Paper may serve for 4 Purges It may be taken with Sugar or in the Pap of a roasted Apple or with a little Syrup or with a little Beer Price 6 d. the Paper And now that this Undertaking may be more generally useful I will add in the following Index some other choice Medicines that are often wanted And moreover any sick Person that comes to my House shall have a faithful Account of his or her Disease and the best Advice I can give them But if they expect to receive any Benefit by Advice or Medicines they must come in time before their Diseases are incurable And here I must inform the Reader that I have learnt by Time and Experience certain Rules for Living and for Diet Exercise and Rest that give greater and more lasting Relief in the Gout and Stone and some other Diseases than any Medicine whatever except in violent Fits of the Stone and when the Gout is striken in upon the Bowels or Stomach and are the best means to preserve Nature to extream old Age and contribute much also to the Cure of Consumptions Convulsions Colick Ptisick King 's Evil Scurvy Rheumatism Weakness in Childrens Limbs Dropsy Venereal Diseases and Melancholy next to Madness And here I will say by the by that the Gout and Stone generally speaking are corporal Punishments inflicted for the Riots and Intemperance or Sloth of either the Father Progenitor or present Possessor and must be expiated by hard Fare and Day-Labour how irksome soever this may seem to the Native Luxury and Sloth of Gouty Libertines and if they will not submit to this Discipline but tamely yield to the Enchantments of Sloth and ill Customs they must expect a long Train of Miseries in a short Life and will entail their Diseases on their Progeny but at length they will make way for an infallible Cure For Luxury and Sloth as they enfeeble the Body so they waste the Estate too the Nurse of these Diseases and of Hypocondriack Melancholy their Foster-Brother Then humble Fortune enforces Labour and dispenses only plain wholsome Food these purifie the Blood restore and invigorate Nature and mend the Breed and in process of Time suceeding Generations are as sound torose and brawny as the natural Frame of these Gouty Men was at first And I am inclin'd to believe this Revolution is perform'd in a stated Number of Years However 't is as certain as that the Sun and Moon and some other Heavenly Bodies will revolve in their circular Courses tho' 't is not so much heeded As to my self the Gout and Stone the best tho' cruel Reformers have tether'd me for many Years to a severe solitary but successful Course of Life I can now no more recreate my self with good Company abroad nor drink so much Wine as is counted necessary for moderate Refreshment but beguile the long tedious Winter Evenings when I have no Business with Contemplation and a few good Books For tho' I am now of Thirty Years standing in this School of Affliction having had the Gout ex traduce and the Stone by drinking Wine and strong Liquors in the Morning of Life and by the Proximity of these Diseases yet God be thanked I have not one Knotted Joint and but seldom a Bloody Urine And here I can affirm upon certain Knowledge that the less Flesh a Man eats and the less he drinks of fermented Liquors and the more Exercise he uses if the Stone be not too big to pass the seldomer he shall be seiz'd with either Gout or Stone And as for Wine Beer and Ale the more they recede from the Nature of Water the worse and more unwholsome they are for ordinary Drink Water was the common Drink both for Man and Beast in the first Age of the World from the Creation to the Flood for 1600 Years when the Lives of Men were prolong'd to near 1000 Years but after the Use of Wine they were contracted to near a Tenth Part. The Romans for the Space of 440 Years drank nothing but Water and now the ordinary People in Italy drink nothing else and the rich Citizens there are much delighted with it and in France 't is counted a foul Crime for Virgins to drink any thing but Water and it were well if it were more in use in England among the younger sort And I must tell Young Men and Women of Gouty Parentage how brisk and taper soever they may look in the Bloom of Life if they don't bestir themselves daily and drink some Water every Day and keep to a low Diet they must expect the Gout and Stone too before they come to be Old and will soon if Care be not taken become unweildy and unable to stir for they have luxuriant Bodies And if they would lay a good Foundation for Health and long Life they should never drink any vinous Liquor but for real Weakness and real Sickness and then only in the manner of Physick And here I will say that if drinking some Water every Day and living chiefly on Herbs and Roots Tea and Small Beer would have kill'd an Old Gouty Man I had been laid in the silent Grave some Years ago But I would not be so understood as that I would advise our dear Aethiop ill Custom should be repudiated all of a sudden or that I would persuade Old Men that have weakened their Bodies by drinking much Wine to leave it off This would be a great and dangerous Error on the other Hand these unhappy Old Men must use the best Means to keep the Gout from the principal Parts for if it strike in and can't be soon driven out again 't is as mortal as the Plague They must therefore strictly observe the following Rules 1. The Mind must be kept as quiet as is possible for when the Gout has taken deep Root that is as much affected as the Body Cares and Fears dog them continually and Melancholy that naturally attends morose Age is increas'd by the Gout and in the Fits and upon a Surprize their Eye-balls rowl they look wild and are subject to violent Passion which plainly shews that then the rational Faculties are crippled too For we see tender Women Children and Men of a weak Oeconomy Mind are very passionate and ready to fire upon slight Occasions But if you except this Impetuosity of Mind few Gouty Men besides my self are Fools for they have the greatest Provokements to Thinking of any Men and have naturally strong Bodies and sound Minds Generals Admirals great Statesmen and Scholars are of their Fraternity they ought therefore to maintain the Honour of their Rank by Patience and a manly Sufferance and tho' in the Fits they are full of Fears and Thoughts and of a preplex'd Understanding they should for their own Comfort consider that a Man without Fear is a Monster and a Man without Thought is a Fool and that in a Crowd of Thoughts they