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A67767	Physick refin'd, or, A little stream of medicinal marrow flowing from the bones of nature wherein several signs, particular rules, and distinct symptoms whereby the most ordinary diseases may be distinctly known, and truly judged, are perspicuously delineated : and the most proper way, safe method, and simpathetical care, whereby nature may be helped, the sick eased, and languishing patients relieved (without the use of poysonous purging potions, and venomous medicaments) is succinctly demonstrated / by John Yarwood.	Yarwood, John, 17th cent.	1683 (1683)	Wing Y18; ESTC R25217	23,195	122

is many times white Gravel sent out with the Vrine The Cure Both these distempers are helped by such Medicines as strongly provoke Urine ' mongst which there are a sort of wood Lice call'd Sows are famous being washt in white wine and the juice squeesed into a draught of white wine and so drank you may begin with the juice of three at a time and so increase every day one till you come to 20 and then decrease the number You may pierce a Birch-tree in the moneth of March and it will send forth abundance of Liquor which being drank with Gromwell seeds is highly Famous in this case so is the water distilled from an herb called Arsmart used as the former or three spoonful of the juice drank in a glass of white Wine works the same effect there is a fruit grows on white Thorn call'd Haws the stones where of being gathered full ripe powdered and mixt with Gromwell seeds gives great ease to the Patient being drank in white wine See the 41 Section Sect. 40. Diabetes IT is commonly call'd unmeasurable Pissing for the Retentive faculty is so weak that whatsoever is drank by the Patient is sent forth again by urine as it was taken there is an unquenchable Thirst heat in the Bowels Leanness and if it be not suddenly cured 'tis deadly bringing the Patient into a Consumption The Cure Tincture of Emeralds in a his case is excellent so is the salt and Tincture of Corals to the quantity of ten grains of any of them at once taken in Malaga Wine Take harts horn burn it till 't is white powder it boyl the same in common water and let the Patient drink thereof or take 4 or 5 handfuls of the inner bark of the young and tender branches of the Hazel-tree branches of one years growth boyl them well in common water or rather in small beer and let the Patient take thereof for his common drink or in its stead if steell be often heated and extinguished in water and that water drank 't is said to be helpful in this case But binding Crocus of Iron is very powerful in this Distemper and muy be taken 20 grains at a time Dissolve salt of Lead in water and therewith bathe the back and let a drying diet be used Sect. 41. Stoppage and Difficulty of Vrine SToppage of Urine may be caused by a stone clotted blood hardness swelling or hurt of the Nerves relating to the bladder 't is very dangerous if it continue long and the Patient is troubled with a Hiccough and his breath stinks of urine Difficulty of urine is with Heat and Inflammation of the part causing hot Vrine but is less dangerous than the former but it the Patient be old if it continue long and so ulcerate the neck of the Bladder it is not easily helped The Cure The most potent medicines to cure these diseases are those set down in the 39 Section where I treated of the stone to which these following simples may be joyned being proper in both cases viz. Camomil Centaury Burdock Roots and seeds Asparagus Brooklime Winter Cherries Garlick all sorts of Parsley rest-Harrow Betony Caraway seeds Cummin seeds Anniseeds Fenugreek seeds wild Carrot seeds Juniper-Berries Bay-Berries 8t Johns-wort Guaiacum Fennel Broom Endive Ragwort Lavender Cloves Feaverfew Smallage Pellitory of the Wall Rue Garden-Cresses Cicely Nutmegs Cocle Peniroyal Radish Saxifrage Wild-Time Time Lavender Tamerisk Vervain Tansie and Nettles Sect. 42. Feaver THe cause according to Van Helmont is an Alcalie abounding and there is a Poysonous excrement in the Midriffs the most gentle feavers continue but one 2 3 or 4 dayes wherein the Pulse is equal and Urine not much differing from its natural colour and these are not dangerous if it continue longer 't is call'd a Putrid Feaver wherein the Vrine hath no sediment but is thick and red the Pulse is unequal and there is great heat if there be a looseness and vomiting there is hope of recovery There is also a continual Feaver which is sometimes accompanied with a Pleurisie Quinsie Vleer or Inflammation of the Lungs and this is very dangerous There is moreover a Burning Feaver wherein the Tongue is dry rough and blackish there is a burning heat thirst gnawing in the stomach Pale and thin Excrements and great watchings and this is very dangerous but if the Vrine be red with signs of Concoction there is hope The Cure The best and safest way to cure a Feaver is by such universal Medicines as simpathize with nature and fortifie the heart as Potable Gold 5 grains at once in Sack or take spirit of Wine 2 ounces Syrup of Clove-gilliflowers 1 ounce Confectio Alkermes 1 dram mix and give a spoonfull at once in good Wine Sect. 43. Ague THere are three sorts of Agues properly called Feavers the first is named an Intermitting Quotidian afflicting the Patient every day the cold fit comes colder and colder by degrees yet is not very excessive on the one hand nor the hot fit much vehement on the other but the disease commonly lasts long and many times degenerates into a Dropsie Cachexia or Lethargy The second is call'd an Intermitting Tertian it cometh every other day with pricking and vehement cold the pulse is equal and anon a violent heat increaseth with much thirst and sometimes vomiting The third is call'd an Intermitting Quartane and comes with two days intermission between the fits in the beginning the pulse is slow the fit comes with vehement cold and afterwards comes a hot burning fit the Vrine is white thin and watry this sort of Ague commeeth long sometimes turns to a Diopsie and to old people is oft mortal The Cure Take ten drops of spirit of Sal Armoniac in Centaury-water at right going to bed 3 or 4 times a weak keep very warm and expect sweat Crude Allum twenty grains at once in warm Ale is excellent Take Bay Salt and fresh English Hops of each two handfuls and 4 ounces of Blew ourrans beat them all well together spread it on Linnen and apply it to both the wrists Sect. 44. Hectick-fever IN this disease there is an unnatural heat kindled as well in the fleshy and sollid parts as in the spirits yet so without pain that the Patient cannot tell that he hath a Feaver there is a slack and hard pulse dry cough Eyes hollow shedding of Hair Nose sharp the face is Leady Vrine thine crude white or pale and at last oyly the stomach is drawn in almost to the Ribbs and the whole body consumeth This distemper is for the most part mortal when it turns to a Marasmos and that is when all or most of the foresaid symptomes joyntly appear but if it be taken in time and good means used they may prove effectual The Cure This disease is cured like a Consumption at the 25 Section Let the Patient feed much upon Raisons of the Sun and Almonds and let him drink Milk with a few drops of oyl of Cinamon But Asses Milk with salt of Pearl is said to transcend Annoint the back bone with oyl of Bay-berries mixt with oyl of Almonds Take Nutmegs and Cynamon of each 3 ounces Ginger 3 drams Magistry of Pearl 2 ounces Honey prepared 12 ounces make it into an Electuary and take thereof 4 times a day the quantity of an Hazlenut at once Spiritus Analepticus taken half an ounce at once is excellent The Essence of Borrage and Bugloss is highly commended in the case so is the Magistry of Corals 10 grains at a time Sect. 45. Spotted-feaver and Plague A Spotted Feaver is a continual malignant burning-Feaver the Patient is tormented with pain in the head faintings excessive Heat Thirst and watchings having after a few dayes spots coming out sometimes all over the body and sometimes only on one part being small and of a reddish purplish livid Leaden or sometimes blackish colour the distemper commonly ends in seven dayes time if the spots turn livid or black and the Vrine look as it did in health 't is exceeding dangerous The Plague is a continual Malignant burning Feaver wherein the Patient is hot within and cold without there is excessive pain in the head with heaviness weariness Lumpishness carelessness sleepiness and Sadness of the mind loss of Appetite vomiting thirst bitterness and driness of the mouth Vrine thick and stinking The Pulse small and deep there is Bubo's behind the Ears under the Arm-holes or in the grom or else Carbuncles or Blew Reddish or Lived spots the Disease is dangerous but 't is most deadly when no Buboe's come forth or when they come forth and go in again or if they the spots appear of a Livid or black Colour 't is commonly mortal The Cure These distempers are helped by such Medicines as chear the spirits and comfort the heart as the Tincture of Life Which is thus made Take spirit of Wine one quart Cochineal or English Saffron one ounce put them in a large glass well corked set it in warm place for 20 dayes pour off the tincture and give a quarter of an ounce at once in the Patients drink Spirit of Harts-horn 20 drops at once is excellent but the most transcending medicament is 5 grains of Potable Gold The Conclusion THis Compendium adventur'd upon the Publick Stage for the Worlds Speculation I gathered into so small a Volume for my own Use as Occasion serves in my Practice But conceiving it might be serviceable for such Ingenious well-disposed Persons as are willing to help their poor Languishing and Sick Neighbours that want Silver-cords to draw the Advice of Money-sucking Physicians to supply their Necessities I have adventured to run the hazard of being sharl'd at by all Callumnious Tongues of whom I may say as was said of old 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Nor do I so much as hope to escape being bitten by the Heels by those Gnathonical Currs who prefer Self-Interest before a Publick Good like him who said 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Howbeit I have Herculean Hopes that this little Piece of Medicinal Marrow will meet with some Ingenious Interpreters of my harmless Meaning who would do good to all to the utmost of my Ability An Advertisement POor People languishing under Bodily Distempers may have free Advice and Medicines for not●ing from the Author of this Book who may be met with most if not all Market-days at the signe of the Crown in Loughborough FINIS

and that they are what they are not 'T is known by fearfulness sadness hatred and such doleful passions of the Mind some conceiting themselves to be beast of this kind others of that Some are fearful of what will not hurt them others would hurt or kill themselves cause no body else will some weep others laugh Some foretell strange things to come others cannot tell what was done yesterday 'T is a deplorable disease very uncomfortable state long and tedious and in Aged people seldom cured The Cure The best thing is Potable silver taken 6 grains at night and a dram of Elixir Proprietatis Elixir Vitae Essentia Magna Essence of Saffron Syrupus Alkermes or Spiritus Analepticus in the morning The Chymical oyles of Cinanion Cloves or Rosemary given to the quantity of 8 drops at once in wine or warm broth is excellent So are flowers of Antimony corrected 6 grains at night taken in London Treacle Take Black Hellebore salt of Tartar and as much white wine as will work them into stiff past put it in a glass stop the Air from it and after it is two months old give 5 or 6 grains at a time in a pill and increase the dose Twenty grains of Matthews Pill is excellent Sect. XV. Night-mare and Cramp BY the Night-mare I mean that oppressive weight and nocturnal suffocation which the Greek Physitians call Ephialtes and the Latines Incubus It commonly seizeth the Patient 'twixt sleep and wake he thinks he feels something very heavy upon him he strives hard yet cannot move or stir himself only groans but cannot speak 't is caused by eating full and late suppers of such meats as are hard of digestion excessive drinking or such like intemperance and if it continue long many times turns to the falling sickness madness or an Apoplexia The Cramp or Convulsion is a shrinking or contraction o● the Nerves either of the whole body or of some particular part That of the whole body proceeds either from the marrow of the back when the Muscle that move the head and back are drawn together or from defect of the brain when th● face is pluckt also with the body That of a part is a particular obstruction of its original If it be taken in time i● may be cured else not The Cure Both these distempers are cured with the same Medicines have prescribed to be used in the Epilepsia at the 12 Section In the Cramp you may Annoint the part shrunk with oyl of Amber mixt with oyl of Roses and apply over it Emplastrum Histericum Sect. XVI Pearl and Cataract THat which is vulgarly known by the name of a Pearl is sometimes called Pin and Web being a white spot contracted by the Cornea and comprehending a small space of the Pupilla the Cataract or suffusion is a distemper wherein the watery Humour of the Eye becomes too thick In the beginning of the disease the patient thinks he sees small things before his eyes as Gnats hairs and the like it commonly affects but one Eye at once when the disease is confirmed the sight totally perisheth there appeareth dark matter in the Pupilla or white spots about it there are red veins about the Circle and a thick skin over the whole Eye The Green coloured Cataract and that wherein the Pupil of the Eye is dilated so far that no circle may be seen within the Tunicles the Eye seeming all black or all white are both uncurable but if the patient be young and can see as through a mist he may be helped The Cure For a Pearl put into the Eye a whole seed of Oculus Christi and wash it with this water Honey two ounces juice of Celandine three ounces white Vitriol a dram dissolved in a ounces of water and drop it into the eye For the Cataract wash the eye 5 times a day in the infusion of Crocus Metallorum in white wine giving ten drops of Oyle of Rosemary every morning in warm wine or broth Sect. 17. Blindness Inflammation of the Eyes BLindness is sometimes Total and yet the Eye to look upon ails nothing If the disease proceed through obstruction of the Optick nerves as commonly it doth through super-abounding Humidity and the sight totally extinct 't is accounted incurable but if it be occasioned through the gathering of humours in the forepart of the head as some affirm it may compressing the Nerves there is some small hopes of recovery Inflammation of the Eyes Is that which is commonly called Blood-shot caused through defluctions occasioned by heat blows great grief and the like and 't is easily helped The Cure In Blindness 't is convenient to sharpen the Patients drink with Oyl of Vitriol or Oyle of Sulphur and take Oyle of Rosemary ten drops at a time morning and night in four spoonfulls of warm wine Take Tutia and Aloes of each three drams white Sugar 2 drams Rose-water and white wine of each 6 ounces mixt and in a glass well stopt digest in the sun or in some other such heat for a mon●th shake it every day then let it settle pure off the clear and wash the Eyes with it both morning noon and Night both for this distemper and for a Cataract Inflammation or blood-shot is cured by salt of Lead dissolved in fair water or Rose-water or white Vitriol one ounce dissolved in three pints of water and the Eyes washed with it or with whites of Eggs beaten to water or wash with the water squeezed out of rotten Apples Sect. 18. Deafness IF this distemper proceed from a Feaver 't is remedied by curing the Feaver if it be some times better and sometimes worse or proceed from a distemper of the Brain it may be helped But if the Tympany be broken the disease from the birth or absolute and of long continuance there is no hope of recovering The Cure Take the Gall of a Partridge mix it with so much Oyl of Amber and drop in three or four drops at a time and do it three times a day for want of that use the fat of an Eele a Mole or Hedghog as the former The juice of Radishes is much commended so is the juice of an Onion soaked in Brandy and roasted but I think oyl of Carawayes two drops at once is better Some use the water that drops out of a green Ash stick laid with one end into the fire boyled a little with the said fat of an Ele and dropped into the Ear warm but above all take snakes or Adders being fat which is in July cast away the heads tayles bowels and skins put the other in a glass pour spirit of wine three inches above them stop it well and digest in a warm place till the substance be turned to an oyle keep it for use and put two or three drops at a time into the deaf Ear. Sect. 19. Bleeding at Nose 'T IS caused by stripes blowes falls heat vehement exercise or else through an abundance of thin blood with pain and

Trochisci Bechici All these medicines are good in the moist Asthma as also juice of Radish Roots with Tincture of Sugar The dry Asthma is cured with Epilepticals as Section the 12th Sect. 24. Inflammation of the Lungs and Vlcer of the Breast AN Inflammation of the Lungs is accompanied with a sharp Feaver caused by some preceding diseases for the most part known by great heat difficult breathing and stretching out of the breast with a redness there the breath is hot the eyes swell a dry Cough Appetite is lost the Tongue is dry the Patient is desirous of cold Air and cold water If this disease follow a Pleurisie 't is very dangerous An Ulcer of the breast is generally from an inflammation of the Lungs being suppurated and the Rupture of the Impostume whereby the matter falls into the cavity of the Breast while the suppuration is perfecting the Feaver increaseth but being broken the Patient spits Matter is faint with heaviness in the bottom of the Breast a Cough and great pain If the matter spit up be green livid froathy or brought up with difficulty and the belly loose 't is very dangerous If the matter be not spit up in a Moneths time it turns to a Consumption The Cure An Inflammation of the Lungs is cured wih the same Medicines mentioned for a Pleurisie at Section the 22th For an Vlcer in the breast Take 10 grains of Antimonium Diaphoreticum at once four times a day Anoint the stomach with Oyntment of Tobacco and then lay on a pultis of Figs and Raisons stoned mixt with oyl of Amber and Juniper berries sharpning the Patient drink with oyl of Sulphur or Vitriol Sect. 25. Consumption THis distemper is a wasting of the whole Body the Patient breathes difficultly the Eyes are hollow the Nostrils sharp is Thirsty and hath a Cough sometimes and the hair falls off spits either froath blood or matter from an Ulcer in the Lungs If the matter spit up stink If the body be very loose or an acute disease conjoyned 't is very dangerous But if the Ulcer be but new begun there is hope of Recovery The Cure Balsom of Sulphur is excellent take it 3 or 4 grains at a time Morning Noon and Night and let the Patients drink be sharpen'd with oyl or Sulphur 20 or 30 drops to a pint The oyles of Rosemary Cinamon and Carawayes help much taken ten drops at a time in brothe Lukewarm there is a Syrup made of Corals or Tincture of the same used with good success so is Syrup of Turneps and extract of Elecampane a spoonful at once in any convenient Vehicle Trochischi Bechisi taken 5 grains at once 3 times a day hath proved effectual so hath a Syrrup made of the juice of Cabbage 1 ounce a day Take Choyce Myrrh 4 ounces Saffron half an ounce Nutmegs two ounces Aromaticum Rosatum two ounces Olibanum one ounce Honey three pound make it into an Electuary and take as much as a Hazzle nut 3 times a day Sect. 26. Spitting of Blood IT may be caused by excessive crying leaping blows or falls or inwardly through Plenitude or sharpness of the Liquor Latex corroding the vessels 'T is commonly ill more especially when 't is from the Lungs and many times foretells a Consumption if it be not critical c. The Cure All those Medicines mentioned in the last Section for the cure of a Consumption are proper to be used here to which these following may be added If the disorder be caused through sharpness of the Latex Goates blood gently dry'd and pouderd and given a dram at a time is excellent Henbane-seed powdered and mixed with Electuarium ad Tabidos and given morning noon and night is commended The Electuary is thus prepared Take Nutmegs and Cinnamon of each 3 ounces Ginger three drams M●gistry of Pearl two ounces clarified Honey twelve ounces beat the species severally then mix them together with the Honey given half a dram at a time morning and evening Trochisci Beehici taken 5 or 6 grains at once is profitable 'T is thus made Take juice of Liquoris one pound white Sugar 2 pound Opium one ounce with the mucilage of Gum Tragocanth make it into Roles or Troches and dry them But above all is Roche Allome dissolve it in water and distill off the water to a dry bottom and give 20 drops at a time in any drink Sect. 27. Pain of the Stomach THere is sometimes accompanying this disease a pain in the Head which shews the distemper to arise from Wind and continuing unremoved a Timpany follows If there be a perpetual gnawing felt in the stomach then it is caused by Worms and so less dangerous if there be a looseness vomiting or the patient thereunto inclined it shews a sharpness in the stomach and if it be accompanied with a Feaver or the extream parts be cold 't is very dangerous The Cure If the distemper be occasioned by Wind things Carminative are most proper Take the distilled oyls of Cumming-seeds half an ounce of Fennel Annis and Caraway of each one dram of Dill and Camomil of each half a dram mix and take 3 or 4 grains in luke warm broth If worms cause the disorder take the cure from the 5 Section If it be caused by some preternatural sharpness in the stomach some anoint outwardly with the oyntment of Tobacco and use Laudanum 3 or 4 grains given at night in a pill but 8 or 9 drops of oyl of Cinamon in luke-warm broth is much safer spirit of Camomil in Mint-water is famous in the case so is Essence of Elder Angelica and Rosemary Sect. 28. Swounding and Beating of the Heart SWounding in some is caused through extraordinary fear Immoderate grief c. and in this case 't is the least dangerous in others its without manifest cause and these commonly dye suddenly but in a Feaver 't is dangerous and pernitious Immoderate and unnatural beating and trembling of the heart may be known by feeling and is sometimes caused through shame joy fear or Anger In others 't is continual and in these cases the least to be feared But if it be caused from a Tumour in the Perecardium or Arteries of the Lungs as some Physitians say it may it is incurable and coming upon an acute disease very dangerous The Cure Of both these distempers are performed with Cordials mongst which Aurum Potabile and Species Alexipharmaca taken 5 or 6 grains at a time of either is excellent so is Elixir Proprietatis and Elixir Vitae 20 grains taken in Wine or Syrup of Clove-gilly slowers Oyl of Citrons and juice of Alkermes mixt with Spirit of Wine is highly commended so is the Essence or spirit of Bawnt Borage and Buglose Magistery of Pearls and Corals There are a sort of Flies which Children call Lady Cows with Golden colour'd wings being gently dryed and powdered are given inwardly with good success Sect. 29. Depraved and Lost Appetite A Depraved Appetite is that which fondly covets longs