Kitchin-physick, or, Advice to the poor by way of dialogue betwixt Philanthropos, physician, Eugenius, apthecary, Lazarus, patient by Thomas Cock | Alchemy Books and Texts Celestial Archive

Kitchin-Physick: OR, Advice to the POOR, By way of DIALOGUE

Betwixt

Philanthropos,
Engenius,
Lazarus,

Physician,
Apthecary,
Patient.

WITH Rules and Directions, how to prevent sick∣ness, and cure Diseases by Diet, and such things as are daily sold in the Market: As also, for the better enabling of Nurses, and such as attend sick people; there be∣ing nothing as yet extant (though much desired) of this Nature.

Parve nec invideo, &c.
Ovid de Trist.

LONDON, Printed for Dorman Newman, at the King's Arms in the Poultry, and at the Ship and Anchor at the Bridge-foot on Southpark-side, 1676.

1. GƲLIELMO, Viri famigeratissimi Gulielmi Whitmore, unico proli, Necnon Costae suae formosae Et Castissimae, Dominae Fran. Whitmore, Filiolae Viri nobilis Thomae Whitmore Equitis Aurati, hoc T. C. Med. D. D.
2. Part the first By way of DIALOGUE Betwixt Philanthropos.Eugenius, &Lazarus.Physician,Apothecary, &Patient.
3. HIPPOCRATIS & GALENI FAUTORIBUS, Speciatim Erudito viro, mihi{que} observando, Thomae Austen Armigero, Mei amicissimo, Necnon Egregiè Doctis J. N. & T. S. Medicinae Doctoribus.
4. Miscelanea Medica: OR, A SUPPLEMENT TO Kitchin-Physick.
5. AN APPENDIX: OR Practical Cautions AND DIRECTIONS To be observed about STOVING AND BATHING.

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GƲLIELMO, Viri famigeratissimi Gulielmi Whitmore, unico proli, Necnon Costae suae formosae Et Castissimae, Dominae Fran. Whitmore, Filiolae Viri nobilis Thomae Whitmore Equitis Aurati, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 hoc T. C. Med. D. D.

IN all Dedications, there is something of

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design, self and interest; and to be true to you, that which made me single you out for a shield and shelter, was partly to gratisie the Stationer, who must needs thrive and fare the better, for coming under your Roof. And had the Book, no o∣ther worth in it, than that it bears so great a Flag and Canvass, as the name of your illustrious Father, it were enough

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to make it sell, and re∣compence the Reader for buying it.

Another End I have in it (though you do 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 Epulari) is, to set before you some whole∣some and necessary Di∣rections for Diet; That being indeed, the best Physick and Physician, you and your Amiable La∣dy can ever hope to meet with, both to preserve your healths, and Pro∣long

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your Lives; which so much concerns the Poor of this Town, City & Coun∣try, that they may call me cruel, if I do not all I can, that you may (to imitate in true Charity and Mu∣nificence your Renown∣ed Ancestors) long live and Prosper, which is the most passionate desire of your Servant and Neigh∣bour.

Thom. Cocke.

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AN Advertisement To the PATIENT.

WHereas divers persons in, and about London. Some under the name and notion of Chymists: Others under the pretense of Charity, do delude and entice people to their daily destru∣ction, to make use of their cheap, safe, and harmless Medicines (as they call them) though indeed (as hath been often made appear;) both dear and deadly; promising also, and warranting cures, though incurable: And whereas also, 'tis the opinion of divers sober

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and considerate persons that one great cause hereof, is, because Col∣ledge Physicians, and such as are approved, and have been Educa∣ted in the Ʋniversities, do not take more care of the poor; it be∣ing not in their power to pay both for Advice and Physick.

THis is therefore to certifie all persons whom it may concern, that there are several Physicians, and Persons of known integrity, who have vo∣luntarily, for the good and wel∣fare of the poor; undertaken to give all persons advice gratis that shall come unto them: And to write them bills to what Apothecaries they themselves think sit; or give them instru∣ctions what to do, or how to prepare Medicines themselves, that are not able or willing to make use of the Apothecary.

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And that all things may be done to the greatest security and advantage of the Patient; the aforesaid Physicians have not only set those Medicines they intend to make use of, at such low and mean rates, that none can imagine it is done for any o∣ther end than to gratifie the poor, and the Apothecary to have an honest lively-hood for his pains; no Medicine exceed∣ing six pence; and some not a∣bove half so much. But also upon any occasion, either the Patient, or the said Apothecary in their behalf may have free access to any of the aforesaid Physicians.

Note.

That you may be informed where, at any time to speak with some one or more of the Physicians

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above mentioned, at one Mr. Briggs, an Apothecary by Abch-Church, or near the Salmon in Spittle-fields; and 'tis hop'd, that in other out parts of the City, where there is most need and most poor, that some of the Honourable College of Phy∣sicians, will in their Christian care, and compassion to the poor, take the like care for the preservation of paupers, and preventing Mountebanks, Me∣chinicks, silly women, and such like intruders on Physick.

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N B.

NOw I am lanch'd, I ex∣pect nothing but storm and tempest: but, as yet, all that I could ever hear objected against any thing con∣tained in this Advertisement, was, that the Medicines are cheap, and consequently (as some suggest) not good; as if God had not ordain'd things ne∣cessary for the preservation of the poor, as well as rich. This made the Philosopher thank Heaven, that it had made all necessary things cheap and easie to be attain'd; but all things dear and difficult, not necessary. Besides if you consider that the intent of this undertaking, is in favour of the poor, there will

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be little reason then for this querulous complaint.

Some again that would fain say something, will 'tis likely tell you, the dress and stile is too plain and poor, too mean, faint and seeble, to contend and meddle with Goliah among the Philistins. To this, I answer, that I did never fancy new, af∣fected, and oftentimes non-sen∣sick words for old matter: Or, to put the Reader to the trou∣ble of learning Greek, only to understand the Title page of a Book, lately expos'd to the press call'd 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉: But a∣bove all things, I hate that sneaking trick with daring, doubtful, and difficult words to confound sense, hoping thereby to make them pass for reason: all which, being I think great crimes in our Methodical and Orthodox Chymist, I have en∣deavoured

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to avoid them my self; or at least, I tell the Rea∣der by another Character, or an, i. e. that I am not quite so silly, as not to be sensible of so great an errour, where there is no necessity or cause, but va∣pouring.

Others, for want of better arguments, and to gratifie their own discontents, will it may be cavil at the subject matter, e∣steeming it below the state and Grandeur of a Physician, and more fit for some waiting Gen∣tlewoman, Nurse, or Master of the Pantry: but this savours so strong of calumny, design and arrogancy; that it stinks alive, and stands in need of no∣thing, but contempt and scorn to make it more odious; or else, I might produce Emperours, Kings and Queens, and the best of Physicians to be their Judges.

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Some also peradventure will more gravely argue, from the bad consequents of this under∣taking: but upon better thoughts certainly it will appear to them, that I have done nothing herein to the prejudice of any; the Emperick, the Searcher and Sexton only excepted: and what makes poor people run headlong to Mountebanks, silly Women, Mechanicks, Psendo-Chymists, and their Graves, but that they have no other refuge to flee to in sick∣ness, it being impossible for them (they say) to pay both for advice and Physick:

Physick and Physicians, are only made for rich men, and wait on Princes, and receive gifts of Kings, but never thanks, nor prayers from him who hath no other Fee;

all which with Hosanna's may be prevented by

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such an attempt as this; the ad∣vising them (especially where personal advice and visits can∣not be had) to very little Phy∣sick, but rather to proper Cor∣dials, and a Di••t proper to their Disease, being the only safe▪ honest, easie, and effectual way, both to pacifie their just cla∣mors, and prevent their dangers in being ruined by bold ignorant practitioners, which understand neither themselves nor Medi∣cines they boast of; our Ortho∣chymist▪ and author of the 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, (as the Learned calls it) being only excepted.

How justly herein do the poor complain and tell us, that the Art of Physick, which was instituted to save them, by the corruption of times, and intru∣ders on Physick, by neglect of Magistrates, and want of per∣sonal visits, now ruines and de∣stroys

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them: and that they are deprived of life, by using (as they think) the means to pre∣serve it: Is not Physick confest on all hands, a pernicious, a deadly, a dangerous thing, if it be not used as it ought? Is it used, as it ought, without the Physician's visiting the Patient, or the Patient the Physician? And is the poor Patient visited as he ought by the Physician? without which, the Nurse, the Neighbour, the friend and messenger that comes from them is the Physician; 'tis they in∣deed act his part: and if these guides mistake their Disease and Symptomes (as what else can be expected) where is Art and Medicine? and is not this the common case of Paupers?

For redressing of which (where visits cannot be had) there needs no more than such

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a Negative as, meddle not with Physick, or very little: but let na∣ture alone with a peculiar Diet, or only some well prepared Cor∣dials proper for your distem∣per: And in behalf of the poor, it were to be wish'd, that no such thing as Physick, (unless Diet; our Ambrosiopaeas or Cor∣dial Spirits may deserve that name) might be permitted them, until Physicians be allow'd them, or encouraged by autho∣rity personally to inspect and vi∣sit them. And that this may not seem the bare conceit and opinion of One, who may be thought easily overtaken with meer idaeas, whims and specu∣lations (as I really think our Chymist is) I could else pro∣duce the voice of authority, and suffrages of the most emi∣nent Physicians, for what I have said, although they have not in

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a set Treatise, handled it in this manner; which I readily ac∣knowledge, (if this occasion would permit) stands in need of a greater volumn and more au∣thentick Author: However, that I may a little comply with the mode and humour of times, and swagger in print as well as others; give me leave (good Reader) to tell thee, that having been beholden to both Univer∣sities for my Education, and spent in this City alomst twenty years in the practice of Physick; I may I hope, among the croud and crew of votaries that dai∣ly attend the shrine of Aescula∣pius, be allow'd, Locum Philoso∣phandi; if not, I crave leave for my considence, and yet, cannot but still remain confident, till some more generous hand than Mempsis (or in plain English Doctor G. T.) helps the poor to

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better cheer, than a few airy and empty Notions, that I have herein done them no wrnog, having given them, in this dis∣course on Diet, no worse than I use my self, and am sure will tend much to their preservation and welfare.

All that I have else to add in favour of my self, and for the Errata's of the Printer▪ is, that from my first perusing a late Book, entituled all in Greek A Direct (though in truth an indirect) method of curing Chy∣mically; to the time of fitting this for the press, was not above eight or nine days; so that I hope all my own, and the er∣rors of the Press, will at most amount to no more than a nine days wonder.

If any one think, I need not have been thus concern'd for this affair, I can tell him, if all

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men had been of this mind, the Book, to which this relates, must have escap'd without any reproof, which in my opinion stands in as much need of cor∣rection, as any thing I ever met with, since I could distinguish between Truth and Errour: and the whole design of this in op∣position to that, is, to offer a more direct and real way of curing and preserving the Patient; and if the Chymist dare say; 'tis no matter what we eat, or what we drink; I dare upon as good grounds say, 'tis no mat∣ter whether we eat, or whether we drink. There is something else I could say for my self; but that long Apologies have usual∣ly more of stick than stalk, and like May-poles, not only tall and long, but troublesome and fruitless.

But to say no more of these

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Logo-Daedali, Gin-cracks, Wind∣mills, and Chymical Camaera's; 'tis very observable, that Para∣celsus, and almost all that Phan∣tastick gang, notwithstanding their immortal Medicines (as they call them) they dyed young, and in the prime of their age, and not only impartial Historians, but those that have some fancy and favour for them, confess that though they per∣formed many admirable, and stupendious cures, yet (as 'tis supposed of the Jesuits powder) their distempers either returned again, or they seldom lived a∣bove a year or two after, veri∣fying herein the old Adagie; That 'tis easie to cure the disease, if you will but venture to kill the Patient, whom God defend and keep from danger and de∣lusion is the prayer of their Vo∣tary.

T. C.

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Note.

That the few following Dialogues are inserted only to amplifie, and make more familiar and evident, the intent of this Ad∣vertisement; and to give the Reader a practical prospect of whaet is contained in it, and meant by it.

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Part the first By way of DIALOGUE Betwixt
Philanthropos.
Eugenius, &
Lazarus.
Physician,
Apothecary, &
Patient.
(Book 1)

Laz.

I Am glad, Sir, to find you within: I have brought you a water, and desire your o∣pinion of the party that sends it.

Phil.

Not to keep you in suspense, without any more a∣do, there is no certain judge∣ment to be given by Urine; whatever is done that way, which so amuseth you and o∣thers, is by collusion, fraud and confederacie.

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Laz.

Why then, Sir, do you Physicians permit us to bring our Waters? besides, there are those, that do undertake to tell us, who, and what the party is; whether they shall live or dye, and much more to this purpose, which I forbear to trouble you with.

Phil.

Well Lazarus, take it for an undoubted truth, that they are all but impudent lyes, and contriv'd stories to drive on some design and interest: and if you will credit me, some of the chief and archest of them have confest as much to me; besides, (as ignorant (as you make your self) you cannot imagine such silly illiterate per∣sons▪ as generally they all are, that boast of these mighty deeds, and upon enquiry are found to be either conceited Women, or some decay'd, bold, ignorant

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Mechanicks: nay, High way∣men, Bauds, and common Strum∣pets, Gypsies, Witches and Conjurers, commonly call'd cunning men and women should be most famous in this profession. Is it to be supposed, that all Universities, Colleges and learned Societies, (as our Mempsis will have it) through∣out the whole world, could re∣main ignorant, after the greatest endeavours they could use, as upon Record, and in all their Writings they solemnly protest they do) if any such thing as these persons boast of by Urin, or their Universal Medicines, were to be known or attain'd unto?

Laz.

Truly, Sir, there is something in what you say, and it seems to call in question ones discretion to believe all that is talk'd of: But I pray, Sir, would

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you not have us then bring the Patients water when we come to you?

Phil.

Yes, by all means good Lazarus, but not with any ex∣pectation of conjuring; for though there be no certain knowledge of any Disease, nor any safe judgement to be given only by the Urine; yet it serves often times to indicate or hint something to us.

Laz.

If Urine be thus uncer∣tain, and insignificant; I pray, Sir, then how came this custom into such request, and what still continues the repute and use of it?

Phil.

All the account I can give you of the original and growth of this errour is, chiefly the ignorance, and credulity of the vulgar, either in not appre∣hending the devices, secret combinations, and stratagems of

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jugling Ʋro-manticks; or else the peoples mistake, and fond conceit in thinking the Physi∣cians chiefest skill lay in the U∣rine, meerly because they ob∣served them to view usually the water, when they visited the sick; and on this mistake, but chiefly to prevent the charge of visits, as also the Physicians condescention to the impositi∣on, has occasion'd the use of this pernicious custom. But because there are some other er∣rors I would advise you of in their proper place, I shall con∣clude this Section, with these few directions.

I. That whenever you visit the Physician, you ever bring with you the sick persons water: on∣ly that it may be in a readiness, if the Physician sees occasion to

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require it, but not with any ex∣pectation of being resolv'd any thing that is certain and materi∣al by it.

II. Though the Physician should omit to ask, yet do not you forget to tell him all you know of the sick: tell him his age, sex, calling, complexion, habit of body and constitution: his customs in eating and drinking, and what course of life he has led: what time he was first ta∣ken: whether he has a vomit∣ing, or looseness, or both: whe∣ther he sleeps much, or wants it, or has a cough, stitches, or pains in any part: whether his thirst be great, or he sweat much, and in what part most, or whatever else the sick person at that pre∣sent labours under, and com∣plains of; and be sure you do

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not conceil what Medicines he has already taken by the ad∣vice, or perswasions of others; and who they were.

III. Let your visits be at the be∣ginning, and first onset of the Disease, and not be put off till the last, which makes the Dis∣ease, not only the more difficult, but dangerous also, and often∣times proves fatal: you may as well, when your house is on fire, forbear going about pre∣sently to quench it.

IV. When you have the directi∣on of such a Physician as you ought to confide in; be sure you keep to him, and punctually in every particular observe his

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directions; a little error herein, be it in your Diet or Physick, may be your death: and run not from one Physician to ano∣ther, though perhaps more e∣minent and able than the first: it being a most certain truth, that Multitudo Medicorum, & Medicinarum, &c. A multitude of Medicines and Physicians do very often destroy the sick—But as to our present concern about Diet; take notice: That

I. All tender, temperate, seden∣tary, and sickly people, all In∣fants, aged, idle and decrepit persons ought to eat often, but yet very little at once; because much food, (like much fewel thrown upon sire) extinguish∣eth their natural heat: and as weak and wasted bodies are to

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be restored by little and little, so also by moist and liquid Ali∣ments, rather than dry and solid, because, that kind of Diet does nourish soonest, and di∣gest, and distribute easiest.

II. Those that have an imperfect health, or are under any mani∣fest Disease, and eat much, and get little strength by eating; 'tis a sign they have used them∣selves to too full a Diet: and the more you cram and cherish such bodies; the less they shall thrive by it, but grow worse and worse; because, by much feeding, you do but increase the vitiated and bad humours, which should be wasted by Bleeding, Purging, or Abstinence. And this should caution all good Women, Nurses and Chymists, how they

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importune, and impose upon sick persons, their comfortable, Cordial, and good things (as they call them) and continual∣ly encourage the sick, say the Physician what he will, to be eating one good thing or other to encourage the* 5.1 Archeus: To re∣form this, and other unreaso∣nable customs in Diet, was in∣stituted in Old times, that Or∣der of Physicians call'd Cli∣nicks, or such as directed the diseased how to order them∣selves in sickness, which is now (the more is the pity) lest to the discretion of every idle, con∣ceited and ignorant Nurse or Gossip.

III. Never, though in perfect health, eat at once, till your Appetite be quite satisfied: eat

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not till you have an Appetite, and eat not so long till you have none, was Galens rule, who lived an hundred years without any manifest sickness: This Rule also the Emperour Aureli∣an, Cato, Seneca, and all the sa∣mous Dietists carefully ob∣served, and without it esteem∣ed Physick, but an insipid and insignificant thing—When we want our healths, we complain that we have taken cold, or eaten something hard of digestion, or make some such frivolous ex∣cuse or other; whereas, the real cause lyes in a long continued disorderly diet: 'Tis rare unless we offend in quantity, that any food that is common to us or mankind, does offend us by its Quality; if there be any such thing as Qualitie, as there is not, says Mempsis.

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IV. If you have eaten or drank too much at once, use so much Exercise or Abstinence, before you so transgress again, as will perfectly digest the superfluity and excess of your former eat∣ing and drinking; or else there will be a necessity of being be∣holden to the extraordinary helps of Physick to prevent Gouts, Catarrhs, Scorbuts, loss of appetite, Crudities, Obstru∣ctions, Palsies, and what not?

V. If you eat a large breakfast, eat no dinner: if you eat no dinner, eat an early supper: if you eat a supper, eat no break∣fast: if no breakfast, eat an ear∣ly dinner; and by this means

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you will keep your stomack clean, strong and vigorous, and preserve thereby a good dige∣stion, and distribution of your food. Custom and company cause us commonly (more than thirst and hunger) to eat and drink: but when hunger and thirst invite us; 'tis to be pre∣ferr'd before occasion and op∣portunity: But if you resolve both to breakfast, dine and sup, let your suppers be early and largest, your dinners least, and all the time after supper (if your occasions will permit) be dis∣pos'd to honest and innocent re∣creations and mirth.

VI. Keep constantly to a plain, simple, and single Diet: none enjoy more health, and live longer, than those that avoid

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variety and curiosity of meats and drinks, which only serve to entice us to our own ruine: Note also, that when you are directed to a Diet, you keep most to those Aliments in that Chapter, which least offend your stomack, and most refresh & please your fancy, to this end let the sick, or some for him, be often reading over the ensuing Ghapters for Diet: and if your food be solid, hard or dry, be∣sure to chew it well, and drink the oftner.

VII. Begin your meals, with some∣thing actually hot, and such things as nourish most, viz. things that are sweet, thin, lusci∣ous and liquid, moist, slipery, and most passible, as Cherries, Apples, Pears, but above all things Flumory: But all solid,

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hard, dry, acid, sower, sharp and astringent meats and drinks are to be used last.

VIII. If at any time, yet at meals drink not much at once, rather drink often and little: This will make the meat and drink mix well in your stomach; pre∣vent Fluctuations, crudities and sower belchings; also (for most) morning▪ draughts of strong drinks and frequent compotati∣ons, or tipling betwixt meals are to be avoided.

X. When you are in perfect health and temper, eat and drink things temperate: and when distempered and sick, eat and drink things contrary to

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your distemper and sickness, though not contrary to your stomach and appetite: you may gratifie Nature▪ but not your dis∣ease, v. 8. If your Disease be cold, your Diet (though it dislike your fancy) must be both actually and vertually hot: and if your Dis∣ease or Constitution be hot, your Diet must be cold or cooling; and so of all other Diseases according to the Chap∣ters hereunto annex'd: and e∣ver more remember, that an erroneous, and irregular Diet, will undo, all that the Physici∣an, or Physick can do for you: and Galen (a man as much to be believ'd and depended on as Mempsis) in his Tract de Theriac, affirms all Remedies ineffectual without a due Diet.

X. The particular Chapters for

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Diet (there being variety e∣nough in every Chapter) must be exactly kept to; and no o∣ther food made use of, than is mentioned in those Chapters, till the Disease be cured, let standers by, and Dogmatick Chymists, say what they will to the contrary: 'tis keeping to a proper Diet that cures, and without this, they do but Insanire, or act like mad-men, that either give or take Phy∣sick.

Lastly. And above all things; de∣voutly invocate God for his Be∣nediction, without which, nei∣ther Paul nor Apollo, Galenist nor Chymist, Food nor Phy∣sick can do any thing; as is more amply thus signified in the words of Sirac to his son Je∣sus: In thy sickness pray unto the Lord, and he will make thee

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whole: Leave off from sin, and order thy ways aright; and cleanse thy heart from all wicked∣ness: Then give place to the Physician; for the Lord hath created him: the hour may come that their endeavours may have good success: for they also shall pray unto the Lord, that he would prosper that, which is given for the prolonging of life: for the Lord hath created food and Me∣dicines out of the Earth, and he that is wise will not abhor them: and he hath given men skill, that he might be honoured in his mar∣vellous works; for, of the Most High only cometh Healing.

Phil.

But to come a little nigher the business I aim at: pray tell me Eugenius, what sick people have lately been with you? and how mannage you that affair of Paupers?

Eugen.

There was with me

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just now a Lazar, so afflicted with the Bloody flux, and so extremely indigent; that he has neither house nor home, friend nor money, and what to do with him, I know not.

Pbil.

Give him two or three drops of the Doctors Pseudo∣chymical, Alexi-stomachon: A good draught of Pepper posset, Egg-caudle, Mace-ale, mull'd Sack, or burnt Claret; it may be will do as well.

Eugen.

But, Sir! the man is almost dead, and starv'd with cold and hunger, and has no two or three shillings, nor far∣things to buy the Doctors drops, or a bit of bread!

Phil.

You must resolve then to relieve him, or let him dye.

Eugen.

That's a hard saying: I am loth he should perish, and yet to relieve all that may on

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this account come to me, is to ruine my self.

Phil.

That's more than you know Eugenius: Providence is not so dead and dull a thing, as too many make it: he that bad the young man sell all he had, and, &c. knew how to re∣compence his Faith, and confi∣dence in God: besides, you and I, have our names for nought, if we look no further than self and interest: Be but you faithful in not imposing upon poor; and careful in ser∣ving and saving the Patient, (be he poor or rich) and never question an honest satisfaction: As Paupers cannot pay, so also, prudent and generous Patients will not, let Art and Industry go unmaintain'd.

Eugen.

Wou'd you have me then, Sir, give him Physick gratis?

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Phil.

I, I, Eugenius; good convenient food and money too; if you are convinc'd he is such a real pauper, as he says he is; or else all the Alexi-stomachons, Polyceas, Panaceas, and Ambrosiopaeas, that you, or the Hermetick Doctor can give him, will do him little good: here, bid him provide him a good warm lodging, and buy himself a pound or two of Rice, and let▪ him torrifie, or parch it a little, as he is to use it, in a hot fire-shovel or frying▪ pan; or bake it for bread with a few Seeds, Nutmeg, Pepper or Cy∣namon, and eat nor drink any thing but Rice, thus prepared with scalded Milk, or Milk and Water, for seven or eight days, and your Patient, Eugenius, may live, to deride, and laugh at all the twelve-penny drops of Chy∣mists, and charitable cheats of

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poor needy Mountebanks and Mechanicks.

Eugen.

Would you have me, Sir, use nothing else but Rice? 'Tis a great disease he labours under, and methinks Rice should not master it.

Phil.

If it does not; give him often a dose of honest Diascordi∣um, or (if that should fail) of our Hypnotick tincture, and Cordial Spirits: But you for∣get, Eugenius, that I told you, great diseases may be cured by keeping to ordinary Medicines proper for them.

Eugen.

But Rice, Sir, is no Medicine: 'tis so common a food, that I wonder you should count it for Physick any more than Bread!

Phil.

I count Bread, and e∣very thing we eat and drink Physick, provided it be contra∣ry to a Disease: For instance,

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if instead of a loose and moist belly, your Patient was trou∣bled with a hard, dry, and costive belly; what Medicines? what Alexi-stomachons and Pan∣pharmacons can do more, if so much, as such meats as moisten the guts and stomach? Sc. Pruens, Pears, Apples, Butter, Oyl, Watergruel, Flumory, French barly, Spinage, and ma∣ny such like moist and anodine Aliments, of which hereafter: and when the bowels and sto∣mach are over moist, relax'd, and slippery as in your present Patient; what can Physick do more than gradually, as Rice does, both heal, alter, bind, dry and strengthen; especially as it may be cook'd? And you would find it, Eugenius, a hard task to tell me of any one Dis∣ease, that I cannot hope to re∣lieve or cure by a proper Diet,

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and very little else, as safely and surely, though not perhaps so suddenly, as the proudest Me∣dicine the Chymist can pro∣duce.

What Disease is there that proceeds not from some of the simple or compound qualities; and though no man is so com∣pleatly wise, as to explicate them in all their causes and ef∣fects, which makes Mempsis ab∣solutely deny, their is any such thing as qualities, which is no less absur'd, than to affirm there's no such thing as Sum∣mer and Winter, or Fire and Water, because in all things we know not their causes and ef∣fects, and yet 'tis certain, they really exist, and are (by the Suns absence, or more immediate presence) made up of such qua∣lities, as we call, hot, dry, cold and moist: and as certain 'tis,

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that all essential Diseases are caused, and all Medicines cure those essential Diseases, by some or all of those four qualities, hot, cold, dry or moist: And what meats are there not, as well as Medicines, that are not in one degree or other oppo∣site to those causes? And if so, as so it is, what hinders then (as strange as the Chymist makes it) that food may not perform those cures, and if you please, not improperly be call'd Phy∣sick, there being this only diffe∣rence betwixt Food and Phy∣sick, that in health Nature, i. e. his Archeus, requires things Ho∣mogeneal, or of like qualities and temper to its self; but in sickness, things Heterogeneal, or of contrary qualities to the Dis∣ease, the neglect of which ab∣solute and necessary distincti∣on makes the Chymist so scep∣tical as he is.

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Of such force and power is food for the preventing and curing Diseases, that I could name you no meaner a Master of Physick than Avicen him∣self, who cured (to use his own words) innumerable Diseases by Diet; and esteemed it so honest (as indeed it is) safe, easie, pleasant, and useful a science, that no good, nor wise men (but the Chymist) would neglect or undervalue it: However, if Diet should, (as in some sudden and great Diseases, it sometimes does) prove inef∣fectual, you are hereby no more prohibited the judicious use of greater Medicines, in such great and violent Diseases, than the blowing up houses, to prevent and put out fires, when such natural and rational helps as water will not do it. And that I may no longer detain you

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from what at first I most intend∣ed; I shall without any more ado, in several distinct Chap∣ters propose you a proper Diet for Diseases; by the help of which, our Cordial Spirits, &c. I can with the satisfaction of a good conscience assure the Rea∣der, that he may safely, and with good success (especially where the Physician cannot vi∣sit the Patient) practise on him∣self, and avoid the danger of putting themselves into the hands of Pseudo-Chymists, silly Women, Mountebanks, Me∣chanicks, Fortune tellers, and such like cheats. And to do this, there needs not much more, than to be directed, or have the opinion of some ho∣nest and able Physician, whe∣ther your Disease be mixt, or comes immediately from a hot, a cold, a dry, or moist cause,

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and then, as you are directed by these ensuing Chapters; to use a mixt or simple Diet con∣trary unto that cause.

CHAP. I.

Treats of a Cold or cooling Diet, for Hot Diseases and Consti∣tutions.

THere is nothing that we can think on, that be∣longs to Aliments so absolute∣ly necessary, so good cheap, and easie to be attain'd, as w••∣ter, without which the whole Universe must stand still, or run into immediate confusion.

It's peculiar prerogative is, to moisten, cool, relax, relieve ease pain, evacuate, thicken, thin, and contributes some∣thing to all the active and pas∣sive

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five Qualities, Dryness, only excepted: By its cold and moist Qualities it quenches Choler, and Lenifies sharp, acid, salt, and adust humours, and relieves all inflamations, inward and outward, and is the only po∣tent refuge for all volatil, sa∣line, thin and sharp bloods.

A glass of good spring Wa∣ter, with a little toast, and a lit∣tle loaf-suger mix'd, is a very good mornings draught, for all hot, lean, sanguine, cholerick and hectick persons. So is Wa∣ter▪ Caudle made thus: Take three pints of Water, boil in it a little Rosemary or Mace, till it comes to a quart, then beat up an Egg and put some of the scalding hot water to it, then give it a wame or two; aad with a little Sugar, drink it hot or cold; three pints of Spring Water put to one pint

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of Milk with Sugar-candy, or double refin'd Sugar, is a drink that Princes may, and do often refresh themselves with. So al∣so is running Water with a Le∣mon, and some part of the Rine slit into it thin, and a little Su∣gar and Wine put to it; or Sy∣rup of Rasberries, Baum, Vio∣lets, Mint, or Clove gilly-flow∣ers; you cannot take too much of it, in ardent Fevers out of a bottle cork'd close, and a quill run through the cork to drink out of: Note, that raw cold Water, in Fevers, Inflamations, and Cholerick Thirst, being drank at once in great quantity may cause obstructions, and ma∣ny dangerous Diseases, as Drop∣sies, &c.

But if you first boil well the wa∣ter, and use it after it is again per∣fectly cold, instead of obstructing it will deobstruate, or open ob∣structions,

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and may thus be given at any time, in all sorts of Fevers, either malignant or ardent, e∣specially if a little White-wine Vinegar be mix'd with it.

That Water is best, which is insipid, or without taste, clean, light and bright; but to make bad water good, and good wa∣ter better, boil it well, and then let it cool again before you use it.

Of Water is made Water∣gruel (the sick man's Food and Physick) when the Archeus ab∣hors all Cordials and high Diet: this is ever very acceptable and pleasing, and consequently, not to be neglected by Mempsis himself, there are these several ways of making it:

Take two pints of River or Spring Water, boil it first, and then let it cool again; then put to it a due proportion of Oat∣meal,

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a handful of Sorrel, and a good quantity of pick'd and well wash'd Currants, (eston'd Raisins of the Sun, and other ingredients, as the Disease will permit, may also be added) ••ye up these ingredients loosely in a fine thin linnen cloth or bag: boil them all well together (with or without a little Mace, Nutmeg, Rosemary, &c. as oc∣casion offers) when 'tis suffici∣ently boil'd strain the Oat-meal, and press out all the juyce or moisture of the Currants and Herbs; throwing away the husks; as you eat it, sweeten it with a very little Sugar, Salt, Butter, and fine Manchet may be added, unless the Disease be very acute: Or,

Take a quart of water, put to it a spoonful or two of Oat∣meal, and a little Mace, when it is sufficiently boil'd, put in

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it seven or eight spoonfuls of white, or Rhenish-wine, to make it more nourishing (if the Disease will bear it) beat up an Egg with a little Sugar, and put some of the hot liquour to it, and then give it a walm or two: Or,

Take Tamarinds or Pruens, wash them in several Waters, then stone them, and cut them small; boil them in a suffici∣ent quantity of Water and Oatmeal, and strain the juyce from the flesh, as you did the Currants, and add to it a little Sugar when you eat it.

All sorts of Broths, Ptisans, and Suppings made of Barley clean pick'd, hul'd, and wash'd in many waters, is very plea∣sing to persons sick of hot Dis∣eases; So are all tart, sharp and sowre things, as Verjuyce, Bar∣berries, Vinegar, Gooseberries,

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Cervices, Oranges, Lemons, dryed Grapes, or our common red Cherries dryed, quench thirst, cool cause appetite, and please most sick Pallats, Sorrel, is a most noble and useful plant; Possets made of it, are excellent in ardent or malig∣nant Fevers, the Green-sauce made of it, is the best of all Sauces for Flesh, Gooseberries not full ripe, sealded, and eaten with good Water, a little Sugar and Rose-water, Marmalade of Gooseberries is also a dainty re∣past for weak and sickly per∣sons, so is their Quideny, the Quideny of Currants, both white and red, do the like; so do Barberries either preserved, or in the conserve, and many such like d••••nties made by in∣genuous Gentlewomen; Tama∣rind Possets are also very plea∣sing, and profitable in all

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hot Diseases: 'Tis made thus:

Take three pints, or two quarts of Milk, boil in it about two peny worth of Tamarinds (which you may buy at the Apothecaries) until it turn the Milk, then strain it from its Curds: Thus is made White∣wine, Rhenish, Lemon, Orange, Sorrel, Pippin, and all Possets made of sowre things, wh ch are excellent in Fevers, and all Diseases coming of Choler; Vi∣negar Possets will do as well as any.

Apples quodled, and eaten with Water, Sugar and Ver∣juyce, are grateful to a hot and dry constitution: So Pru••ns stew'd with Sorrel, Verjuyce, or Juyce of Lemon, Endive, Succory, Dandelyon, Spinage, Beets, Pur••lain, Borrage, Bug∣loss, Violet▪ Strawberries Cy••q∣foyl, Raspeberries, Mulberries,

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Burnet, Quince, Plantain, Dampsons, Lettice, Cucumbers, Eggs potch'd into Water, Vi∣negar or Verjuyce, and eaten with Sorrel sipits or Vinegar, and fine Sugar may be permitted persons, whose Disease is not acute, or Eggs beaten in a Plat∣ter with Butter-milk to a mo∣derate thickness, and sugar'd is also excellent.

Two-Milk Posset: that is, boil a quart of Milk, to this put a pint of Butter-milk, take off the Curd, and you have a pleasant Posset: This Bocheet made of Ivory is also excel∣lent.

Take Spring-water three pints, boil it away to two; when it is cold, put to it one ounce of shavings of Ivory, a few Coriander, or Carryway-Seeds; you may add also as ma∣ny bruised Currants as Ivory,

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put them all in a Tin Coffee∣pot, adding as you think fit, a lit∣tle liquorish, and let them stand simpering by the fire, four or five hours, then strain them, and keep the liquor in the pot to drink when you will as Coffee; to make it a more pleasant re∣past, you may put a little Rhe∣nish▪wine to it, and dulcifie it with a little powder of white Sugar▪candy. Cullis, and Jelly of Ivory and Harts-horn is a good Restorative Diet; for hot ma∣ciated persons, make it thus:

Take a Chicken or young Cockerel, Pheasant, Snipe, or Wood cock; those that have not too much money, may take Hogs feet, Lambs, Calves, Pigs∣pettitoes or Trotters; or take the bones of Veal, Mutton, Hens, Pullets, Capons, &c. which have sinews sticking to them; Boil all, or any of these

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in the water wherein French Barley has first been bolled, throw away the Barley, and add to the Water some shavings of Ivory, and a few Currants, or estoned Raisins; when the broth is throughly boiled▪ strain it, and when it is cold it will Jelly; take from it when 'tis cold all the fat from the top, and dregs at bottom; and to a Porenger of this melted, put the yolk of a new laid Egg beaten up with the Juyce of an Orange, and a little Sugar, and let it stew gently a little while, and so drink it.

Note.

That all salt, and bitter, and ve∣ry sweet things; and all hot and dry things, are to be a∣voided while you use this diet, and are advised so to do by your

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Physician, as Pepper, Ginger, Cynamon, much Salt, Tobacco, Brandy, and wine unless mix'd with Water, strong Beer and Ale, and meat especially much rosted, and very fat: But cooling Odours, as Vinegar or Water, wherein Rose leaves, Violets, or any sweet temperate Herbs have been steep'd; or a turf of fresh earth often smelt to; or to receive much the sent of Cow-dung is good and necessary for hot blooded peo∣ple.

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CHAP. II.

Treats of a Hot Diet, for Cold Diseases and Constitutions.

THe intent of hot Aliments is to heat and dry a cold and moise Constitution; to cherish and restore our Native heat, when it is deficient, by any cold accident or disease. If Food vertually hot, exceed the second degree of heat; as Garlick, Onyons, Mustard, Ra∣dish, Brandy, &c. It may not then improperly be called Phy∣sick; and more fit to be used so, than as food; and though our bodies are best preserved by things con-natural, or mo∣derately

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hot; yet when we do accustom them to things im∣moderate, as much Wine, Bran∣dy, Tobacco, &c. We seldom long escape death, or some great disease: But away with these distinctions of qualities, says Mempsis: All that concerns this Chapter, is to mind you of such things as are contrary to a cold disease, a faint, weak, va∣pid and watery blood: and 'tis endless to assert all that may be said on this subject: I shall therefore only single out such as are sufficient. This Cullis is counted excellent.

Take a large Cock, Capon, Sparrows, Partridge, Snipes or Wood-cocks, boil all, or any of them, in a gallon of Spring-wa∣ter, till they fall in pieces, or come to a Pottle: then take off all the fat when 'tis cold, and

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put to it two quarts of White∣wine, and then boil it again to a Pottle: then clarifie it with two or three Whites of Eggs: then dulcisie and Aroma∣tize it, with about a quarter of an ounce of Cinamon grosly beaten, and about four ounces more or less of fine Sugar: colour it with Saffron, and per∣fume it with a grain or two of Musk, or Amber-greese; and to make it more cordial and costly, add to it confect. of Al∣chermes, and Hyacynth, q. v. strain it through a gelly bag two or three times, and eat it alone, or mix it with other broths. Or,

Take Calves-feet, Cow-heel, fresh Pig-pork, Veal or Trot∣ters, let them simper ten or twelve hours by a soft fire, in a sufficient quantity of Spring∣water,

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with Mary-golds, Rose∣mary, Time, Savory, Sweet∣marjoram, Mace, or Cinamon: when 'tis almost boil'd enough, add to it a crust of bread, then strain it: To make it more nourishing, put to it, as you eat it, the yolk of an Egg and Sugar. Or,

Take a quart of Sack, burn it with Rosemary, Nutmegs or Mace, then temper two or three new laid Eggs▪ with four or five spoonfuls of it: Give it a walm or two with the Eggs, and add to it Sugar to your content: Thus also for cheapness it may be made with Ale, stale-beer or Sider: Or,

Take two or three spoonfuls of Brandy: put to it a pint of Ale, boil the Ale and scum it, then put to it Sugar and drink it: Or,

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Take three or four leaves of Sage; twelve leaves of Garden, or Sea-scurvy-grass, shavings of Horse-radish root, as much as will lye on a shilling, Raisins of the Sun eston'd, Num. 20. put them into a quart bottle of Ale or Beer, after two or three days you may drink it constant∣ly for your ordinary drink a∣gainst the Scurvy, Dropsie, Green-sickness, or any cold Disease.

Egg-caudle, and all sorts of broths, Bocheets, Caudles, Cul∣lices, Jellies, and liquid Ali∣ments, made with Flesh, Eggs, Sugar, Sweet-fruit, Wine, or Aromatick Spices, nourish more and sooner than things that are solid, and in the substance, and on this account, no diet can exceed Eggs eaten any ways.

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Take any flesh reer-rosted or boil'd (Mutton is best) press from it the Juyce or Gravy: let it simper over a soft fire, with so much white or Rhe∣nish Wine, as there is Gravy: to which add the yolk of Eggs as you see occasion, Sugar, and a lirtle Cinamon, Nutmeg or Mace; drink often four or five spoonfuls of it, or eat it with crums of sine Manchet, or Na∣ples Bisket: The bottom of a∣ny well-seasin'd Venison Pasty, or meat 〈◊〉〈◊〉 stew'd in a suffi∣cient quantity of Wine and Water, or Ale and Water, or Water only makes a good sto∣mach Potage.

All Aromatick Plants, all ex∣alted Sauces with Anchovacs, Saffron, Shalots, Pepper, Ginger, Cloves, Cinamon, Nutmeg, Mace, Mustard, or Horse-radish

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roots, Chervil, Cresses, Mint, Peny - royal, Taragon, &c. Steept, slic'd or shred into Sack, are good Sauces for cold and crude stomachs.

Note.

That Ambrosiopaea's, or our Cor∣dial Spirits, much Flesh, and good Wine moderately taken, may be used while you are un∣der this diet: Rich aroma∣tick scents, odours, and per∣fumes are also excellent: Ga∣len counted them the solace and support of his life: The sauce and food of his Spirits; and that Reverend Divine, the learned Hooker, found them so to fortifie rature, that he could not live with••ut them: And certainly, most distempers incident to a cold and moist

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brain (the original and prime cause of most diseases) are pre∣vented, relieved or cured by Aromatick Odours: these and good Air, are says, ('tis Hip∣pocrates, I think) the 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, charms against all evil.

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CHAP. III.

Treats of a moist diet for dry diseases and constitutions.

MOst of those things men∣tioned in the first Chap∣ter against hot diseases, may be useful also against dry, because such diseases as are hot, are ge∣nerally also dry; and therefore it is, that moisture and dryness are counted passive qualities: But besides what are already mentioned in that Chapter, there's nothing can come in competition with Milk: and had Gods providence confined us only to this Aliment, and

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bread we had no cause to com∣plain of his bounty.

'Tis generally suppos'd to be of a cold and moist temper; but being nothing else but white blood, I rather think it (as blood is) temperately hot and moist, and so like the blood of our bodies, that nothing can exceed it for nourishment, and therefore 'tis that Milk in acute distempers is accounted offen∣sive, unless alaid with water: Asses Milk for Medicinal use is in greatest repute, because 'tis not so thick, to obstruct, nor so thin as not to nourish: both which may be performed by Cow-milk, either by taking from it the Cream, call'd Fleet∣milk, or putting to it a due pro∣portion of Whey, especially if the Whey be first well boil'd, and put to it cold, and then it

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will answer all the intents of Asses milk: But such as are sound, and under no manifest distemper, stand in no need of these cautions and directions, nor can err in eating it, only observing: 1. That they do not eat it raw and cold, when they are hot: 2. Not to eat it on a full stomach, or mingled with other meats: this makes children so subject to Worms: 3. Use no violent motion im∣mediately after it.—A draught of warm Milk from any Cow; ('tis but conceit and opinion to count on a red-Cow, more than a red-Woman: the brown and black of both Kine are best, so that they are young, well fed, and well flesh'd) their Milk, I say, taken in bed about an hour before you rise, is an absolute refection for a hot,

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lean and dry constitution, if you put a little Sugar, or Salt in it, you need not fear its curdling or corrupting. This trifle made of Milk is pleasant: Take a quart of Milk; boil in it a blade of Mace: then take it from the fire, and dissolve in it two or three spoonfuls of fine Sugar: then when 'tis blood-warm, put to it about a spoonful of Run∣net, stir it, and dish it out for a wholesome repast: some do it with Cream instead of Milk, they are both good: There are many of the like nature, which this short Essay will not permit of.

Fish of all sorts is also cold and moist, especially those that live in fresh waters, but Fish that dwell in salt waters, and among Rocks, and gravel Ri∣vers are best. Fresh-cod,

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Whiting, Shads, Place, Floun∣der, Sole, Bream, Barbel, Smelts, Carps, Gudgeon, Pearch, Pikes, Roche, Mullets, Jacks, or broths made with these, and Oysters, Cockles, crums of bread, and yolks of Eggs are sine feed∣ing for sick maciated peo∣ple.

Fruit of all sorts, Pears, Ap∣ples, Prunes, &c. Stew'd, rost∣ed, boil'd or bak'd, are good also against dry Diseases; Car∣rots, Cowslips, Purslain, Letice, Asparagus, ripe Mulberries, Spi∣nache, Strawberries, Dates, Vio∣let leaves, Sweet-almonds, Mal∣lows, Beets, Endive, Succory, Borage, Burnet, Liquorish, Scor∣zonera, Raisins, Currants, Whey, Wheat, French barley, Oatmeal Puddings, Frumety; but above all things Flumory, the worth of which is known

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to few: 'tis made thus: Take half a peck of Oatmeal, take from it the supersine flowre, put it to soke three or four days in a stand, or any earthen Vessel, with so much water as will more than cover it, shift the water every day to take away the bitterness of the Oatmeal, let it stand in the last water till it sowre: and when you would use it, stir it well together, and strain so much as you would use at once: then boil it up to the consistence of a gelly, and eat it at any time cold or hot, with a little White-wine or Su∣gar, Sack, Claret, Sider or Oat-Ale; though it seems worst, that sort of Flumory is best which looks cleer and sheer, and tastes sharp and sowre: Thus also may be made Flu∣mory of Wheat, Rice, French

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barley, &c. Frogs and Snailes are counted good food in France, so may Toads, Spiders, or any Vermine, if they come from thence: Our English Hens, Cocks, Veal, Lamb, Chickens, Kid and Capons, are, I think, every whit as good for saline, hot and dry bodies: If your Lamb and Veal be very young, you ought to stick it with Cloves or Rosemary, as you do Beef; and it eats more pleasant, and is more whole∣some. The brains of most A∣nimals are over moist and Phlegmatick: But the Rumps, Tails and Tongues of all Beasts, (but one) are temperate and re∣storative. The Lungs also of Flesh and Fowl are good for hot and dry constitutions: So are the Eyes, Gizards, Sweet∣breads, and feet of most crea∣tures,

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especially boil'd. Cassia or Currants boil'd in Chicken or Veal-broth, cools, moistens, and loosneth the belly: This is also a good, cool, moist, cheap and nourishing potage: boil any Mutton or Veal in water, with or without Oat∣meal; when the Meat is a little more than half boil'd, put in it a bundle of sweet Herbs, and the green leaves of Mary∣golds, Sorrel, Spinage, Let∣tice, purslain, Violet, and Strawberry leaves: add to these a sufficient quantity of the tender part of Asparagus, or a good quantity of green Pease will do as well, especially if you bruise some of them be∣fore you put them in: Or boil Damask Pruens in two quarts of water; after they have boil'd a quarter of an hour,

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put to them a saucer full of wheaten bran; let your bran only steep in the hot water till 'tis cold, then strain it, and sweeten it with Sugar, and drink it frequently: Or steep a pound of Pruens, and a ve∣ry little Liquorish in three or four pints of cold water▪ thirty or forty hours, and drink it for common drink: Or this Emulsion: Take Raisins of the Sun ston'd, and Currants of each a small handful, Lettice and Purslain seed of each bruised two or three drachms, boil them in a Gallon of Spring water to a Pottle; then blanch two or three ounces of Almonds, and bray them in a stone Morter: strain the li∣quor, and put into it the Al∣monds; then strain it again, and with sine Sugar make an

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Almond Milk, and drink it blood warm, as often as you will. In short, nothing moi∣stens the body more than much sleep, ease and rest, and living in such a moist Air as Lambeth∣marsh, Hackney, or Dengy hun∣dreds: And though that Air is simply best, which is most serene, clear, sharp and dry; Nay, our Native Air, though by its simpathy with our first matter, often times most re∣pairs and mends our decayed Natures; yet sometimes a gross, thick and moist Air, or in∣deed any Air opposite to the Disease we labour under, must by us always be reputed best: it being a sure rule that all things cure best by contraries, be it Air, Aliments, Food, Phy∣sick, or any of the non-naturals.

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Note.

That while you are directed this Diet, all things are to be a∣voided, which are forbidden in the first Chapter.

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CHAP. IV.

Treats of a drying diet, for moist Diseases and Constitutions.

BRead, is so inseparable a companion of life, that neither sound nor sick can sub∣sist without it; and did I not stand in awe of time, and feared prolixity: I would write its Paragraph, and make man▪kind sensible, how with this, Milk or Water, and very lit∣tle else, we might contemn the curiosities of a Court, and en∣counter with death it self. E∣picurus (that Cormorant and Monster of men) only with his 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 could entertain himself so well; that he could dispute felicity with Kings:

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and in his morals tells us, that when he would entertain him∣self more splendidly▪ he mend∣ed his chear with a little Milk, and found so much satisfaction by it, that he bids defiance to the pleasures, which the igno∣rant and sensual world so much like, and cry up in magnificent feasts, great entertainments, rich Wines, costly Meats and Junkets: and certainly says our wise man, most that have ad∣dicted themselves to variety, extravagancy and excess, have thereby either loaded them∣selves with new cares, or con∣tracted new vices; and so be∣come obnoxious to various and great troubles, and frequently commit Rapines, Cheats, vio∣lating Justice, Faith and Friend∣ship, and many times precipi∣tate themselves into grievous

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Diseases, losses and disparage∣ments; which by Frugality, Temperance and Sobriety they might have avoided: Nature requires little, opinion much, and he that has not this faculty of abdicating from his desires, his mind is like a Vessel full of holes ever filling, but never full; and to him, that is not sa∣tisfied with a little, nothing will ever be enough: and who∣soever covets no more, than that little he enjoys; however the world (deceived by vain o∣pinion) may account him poor, yet he really is the richest man alive; and the way to make ones self truly great and rich, is not by adding to ones riches, but by detracting from our de∣sires; and what reason is there, then says our brave Philoso∣pher, that any man should stand

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in fear of Fortune, or court it's favour, since few or none are so poor, as to want long these things, or ever was re∣duced to a lower ebb, than Sallets, Bread and Water; nor know I, whether more than this, with a quiet mind, and good appetite, (without which none need eat) is worth con∣tending for. How many by high drinks and dyet, riot, and luxurious compotations have dyed on their Close-stools, ex∣pired in privies, and took their leaves of this base world over a Chamber-pot, or at least, on∣ly out-liv'd the conflict, with Gouts, Palsies, Catarrhs, Sur∣feits, and many other ignomi∣nious Diseases: and what great matter can be expected in Church or State, from that man whose joynts are infeebled,

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his sinews relaxed, his head clowded, eyes bleered, and mouth full of curses and cla∣mours, and all by reason of debauchery, excess and luxu∣ry; which chokes rather than cherisheth Nature, and clogs the Veins and Vessels with such superfluous moisture, that no Meats nor Medicines can com∣mand those unmanly Diseases, that are the effects of it: and though Bread will do as much as any thing, yet, unless tem∣perance, abstinence, or a spare diet be joyned with it, all that Physick or Food can do is in vain. No persons are more offended with Crudities, Worms, Fluxes, and Defluxi∣ons than those that eat none, or too little Bread: No Flesh, Fish or Fruits that we can feed on, but putrifie and convert

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to slime and water for want of it: No country, no place, no people; (in some sort or o∣ther) are without it: Some bake it, some broil it; others fry, tost and boil it; some make it of dry'd Fish▪ some with roots of Plants, and Barks of Trees: some with Seeds, Nuts Acorns: Among our selves 'tis made of Barley, Rye, Oats, Misceline, Wheat; of all which Barley Bread is worst, and Wheaten best, especially if it be not too fine, and without leven, or spoil'd in making or baking: The crum is best for Cholerick, the crust for Phleg∣matick and moist constitutions; or they may eat it tosted: the newer it is; the more it nou∣risheth; the older it is, the more it drys: I have known Children cured of the Chin∣cough,

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by drinking little, and eating much Bread; 'tis good also against the Rickets: and the reason why Fluxes, Sur∣feits, Fevers and many other Diseases, are so rife in Fruit∣time, is, because Bread is not eaten with them: the more moist and liquid our meats are, the more Bread is to be eaten with them: dry houshold Bread, Manchet or Bisket, ea∣ten for a Breakfast, for Supper or last at meals, with a little Wine, is the only refuge for Rheumatick and moist consti∣tutions. Galen, by much stu∣dy, was troubled with distil∣lations, but preserved himself many years by eating no other Breakfast or Supper, than Bread dipt in Wine, and with good Odours. Rice made into Bread, or dry'd in an Oven, and steep'd

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in Wine or stale strong Beer, and then boil'd or bak'd with a little Pepper, Seeds, or Cina∣mon is good, so are all spiced, and Aromatick Aliments: Eggs rosted and eaten with Pepper, much Salt or Cinamon, and a glass of Wine or good Drink after them, nourish and dry much: All Wild Fowl, Par∣tridge, old Pigeons, Ducks and Geese; Stares, Thrushes and Black-birds; Larks, Spar∣rows, Teel and Widgeon, Rabbets, Beef, Mutton, Veni∣son and Hare dry rosted, dry up Rheum: Broth made with Rabbets, Rice, Sorrel, Sage, Sparrows, &c. All sowre things also dry much, as Vinegar, Ver∣juyce, Orange, Lemon: Allum posset is incomparable for a gargel to hinder defluxions, or take it inwardly in hot

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and moist distempers: Make it thus: Take a lump of Roch-Allum, put it into a quart or two of boiling Milk, stir it till it is very well curdled; take off the curd, and drink it hot, in malignant and putrid Fe∣vers: Broths made of China and Sarsa; or let all your Beer and Wine be drank out of a Lignum Vitae cup: Some have abstain'd from all manner of drink, for many months: there are many other things that might be added to dry a moist Disease and Constitution, which we omit, because most of the Diet in the second Chapter against cold Diseases, may be used here as a drying Diet.

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Note.

That our Ambrosiopaeas, or Cordial Spirits, at, after, or before meats may be used, while you are un∣der this diet: But Milk, much Sugar, much Drink, and all moist things, mentioned in the third Chapter must be omitted; But Abstinence, a spare diet; much exercise, lit∣tle sleep, especially in the day-time, and presently after feeding is pernici∣ous, for fat, Phlegma∣tick, and moist bodies;

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for hot, lean and dry bodies 'tis necessary, e∣specially in Summer and hot Seasons.

The Conclusion.

And the summ of all is this: when a Pauper and sick person comes to me; I direct him (if any) no more Physick than is absolute∣ly necessary; next I bid him keep a proper diet, or take a proper Cordial a∣gainst his Disease. If his Disease comes from a hot cause, I bid him keep (till

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he recovers) to the Me∣dicines and diet belonging to the first Chapter. If from a cold cause, then to use no other Diet and Me∣dicines than is contained in the second Chapter. If from a moist or dry cause, then to the Diet, and Di∣rections in the third and fourth Chapter. If Diet and our Cordial Drinks do not do, then I recom∣mend them to the Stove and Artificial Bath, men∣tioned in the second part of these Dialogues; and if then, and there they mend not, you may con∣clude

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their case desperate and more fit for the Divine than Physician.

Finis part the first.

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Miscelanea Medica: OR, A SUPPLEMENT TO Kitchin-Physick; To which is added, A short DISCOURSE ON STOVING AND BATHING: WITH Some transient and occasional Notes on Dr. George Thomp∣sons 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉.

—Nec lex est just••••r ulla Quam necis artificis arte perire sua.

LONDON, Printed in the year 1675.

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HIPPOCRATIS & GALENI FAUTORIBUS, Speciatim Erudito viro, mihi{que} observando, Thomae Austen Armigero, Mei amicissimo, Necnon Egregiè Doctis J. N. & T. S. Medicinae Doctoribus.

PEllaeo Juveni, Cultor non sufficit unus—

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Duos igitur tanto Heroi, diversi generis, obtigisse, memoriae traditur, Crate∣rum scilicet, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, & Hephestionem, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, ab eodem appellatos. Quo∣rum, ille quidem Regem, hic vero Alexandrum, co∣luisse dicitur: Mihi quoque, in publicum prodeunti, ana∣logo quopiam, multo magis opus esse, quis dubitet? Re∣pertis enim libclli, & causae quam tractat justissimae pa∣tronis idoneis, alios etiam,

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Scriptoris protectores, ex∣quirendos facile persensi: Nec mora, Vos enim, viri egregii, illico mihi in men∣tem rediistis, (unde quidem, (ut verius dicam) nun∣quam abestis) qui me, ve∣stra familiaritate, olim dignati, sic me, sic med omnia, utcunque tenuia, e∣stimatis, & vel landare, vel saltem excusare, parati estis, ut aliis, hunc tracta∣tum inscribere, vel alios, mei Defensores adoptare,

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nefas duxerim.

De meipso (more Chy∣micorum speciatim 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 & 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, G. T.) multa promittere modestia non patitur; & quamvis mihi non sum tam suffenus ut quidquam de me magno∣perè pollicear, in utra{que} ta∣men Academià educato, ex∣actis etiam viginti propè annis in studio & praxi Medicinae, Chymiae, & A∣natomiae, liceat mihi dicere me non prorsus ignarum esse

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plurimorum, sive Dogmatum sive Experimentorum, quae alicujus in hâc arte momenti sunt. Quapropter navem solvendi & hunc oceanum discurrendi copiam facile mihi dandam confido, gra∣tum aliquid & utile huma∣no generi exponere studen∣ti. Valete viri egregiè docti, Accipite hoc offe∣rentem 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉; Pergite mi∣hi (quod semper facitis) indulgere, mei{que} patrocini∣um

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suscipere, dignemini: & perpetuo favete

Addictissimo Vestri, T. C.

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Miscelanea Medica: OR, A SUPPLEMENT TO Kitchin-Physick. (Book 2)

The Second Part. (Book 2)

ALL Physicians whom we ought most to confide in, do conclude and have determined it as a most undoubted Truth, to cure with

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contraries, and preserve with Cordials, according to that confirm'd Aphorism of contraria contrariis curantur: Similia si∣milibus, conservantur.

Paracelsus, Theophrastus, Bom∣bastus, Van-Helmont, and some of their late conceited Disci∣ples, without taking any notice of this distinction, do morbum morbo curare: and venture to attempt the putting out of fire with fire: Or, curing hot Dis∣eases with hot Medicines, and consequently cold Diseases with cold. Hippocrates, Galen, and their more aged Off-spring; on the other hand judge it more reasonable and practicable to put out fire with water; and to subdue the cold effects of water, by heat or fire: and to this end, if the Disease be hot and dry, as a Fever, they ad∣vise

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such Food and Physick, as is cold and moist; and hot and dry Meats and Medicines to subdue a disease that is moist and cold; never neglecting (as is supposed by the Chymist) to supply Nature, though not the Disease, with convenient, de∣lightful, and proper Cordials, always remembring, not to nou∣rish, but to oppose a Disease, with things that remove, or al∣ter it by their qualities.

We are much beholden to the temperament and qualities of things, for the preservation of our health, and curing Dis∣eases, nor is there, through the benignity and bounty of God, any accident or distemper, but hath its remedy assigned it, by the matter, form, temperament or qualities of Medicines, knew we but certainly how, and when

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to apply them: and therefore it is, that Physiology, and all the five parts of Physick, are more absolutely necessary, than the most exalted, and accurate Medicines of the Chymist: and though by some (who know the vulgar neither do, nor will know any thing but what is vulgar) the Galenist and Chy∣mist are represented, as two distinct, different and inconsi∣stent things, yet 'tis certain, they both serve but to make up one intire Artist: And I could tell you Eugenius not only of some Physicians, but some also of your own profession, that can compare, if not out-do the greatest Don and Heroes (as they think themselves) of the Chymical and Hermetick Sect: And because you may depend upon it for a Truth, that all

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Diseases and Remedies, may as well and better be compre∣hended under some of the sim∣ple or compound Qualities, than any other invented Idea, Name or Notion whatever of the conceited Chymist, to this very end, the foregoing Chapters in the first Part, have given you a practical account of such things, as do preserve by their agreement with Nature, and cure by their contrariety to the Disease; and not to advise people to a Diet, that is an∣swerable to their Disease and Physick they are prescribed, is to ruine them: nor are they by any but conceited Prac••ti∣oners and Humorists, to be left at large, to feed as they think sit on old Cheese, Red-herring, or to inflame themselves with the more subtil and penetrating

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Spirits of Brandy, Punch and Aqua Vitae, which, though at first they seem to content Na∣ture, and exalt the Archeus, or vital and natural heat of our bodies, yet they so alter also the natural tone, temper and fer∣ments of the pancreas, blood and stomach, that (in a little time) they leave them languid, faint and vappid: By these things the Chymist may for a while, seemingly make his Ar∣cheus or Nature blaze the bet∣ter; but (like a Torch with often beating) it will certainly burn out the sooner: and 'tis rare to find any accustomed Brandy, or Aqua vitae Bubber, when once sick ever to reco∣ver, because the frequent use of such things, make all other Cor∣dials useless and invalid in time of sickness, and when Nature

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should stand most in need of them. Besides, they either at first so inflame the vital Spirits, as to produce such acute, sharp, and sudden Diseases, as Fevers, Apoplexies, and the like, or else in time (as one fire puts out a∣nother) they extinguish the vital heat and moisture, and thereby occasion such chronick and fatal Diseases, as Gouts, Dropsies, Palsies, Hecticks, Scorbuts, Consumptions, and death it self.

In short, our blood and spi∣rits may as well be too much a∣gitated as idle, and the vola∣til Salts may stand in as much need of fixing, as the fixed Salts of volatizing, nor is their less danger in one than the other: and how the Chymist, only with his hot fiery Cordial Spirits at one and the same time, can

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serve two such different Ma∣sters, I understand not, and must herein submit to better judgements than my own, and surely, such a modest and man∣nerly condescention, as this would have better become Mempsis, than an unmanly dis∣daining others to magnifie him∣self; nothing being more in∣tolerable and base, than inur∣banity: Nor can I but wonder with what confidence he can pretend (as he does, page 187) to subdue the irregular passions, and reform the sinful inclinati∣ons of others by his Medicines, when, after so many thousand Doses, as he says he has taken himself, (only to animate others) as yet he has not conquer'd his own: his prevaricating in this is enough on all occasions, to call in question his integrity,

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and to make him suspected a—Chymist: Nor are we so much to conside in the loud Hyper∣bolies of his Medicines, and great brags that are daily made of Pantamagogons, Alexi - stoma∣chons, &c. As to some few well digested institutions, that may practically relate to the six non-Naturals, and a Directory for Diet.

Like Food, like Flesh, like Meat, like Medicine, was once almost grown proverbial: and some old Philosophers, by the continual succession of new mat∣ter by Aliments; have not only affirmed; that from sick men we may become sound men: but of late the Chymists have so improv'd, and advanced the Notion in behalf of their Ae∣therial, and supernatural Spi∣rits, that we may (say they)

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also become new men; and one of the best and most accom∣plish'd of the Chymical Cabal (meaning Mempsis) has under∣taken (on condition his Maje∣sty will be gracious to that pro∣fession) not only to cure his Subjects of Incontinency, A∣theism, Profaneness, and all manner of Sin and Debauche∣ry: But will make them also Just, Devout, Loyal and Reli∣gious, only by cokesing, tame∣ing, and tickling the Archeus with his Hermetick and Chymi∣cal preparations: and to grati∣fie farther, his sacred royal Ma∣ster for so great a kindness he engages (to use his own words, pag. 187. of his 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉) by the powerful operation of his 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 (i. e. in plain Eng∣lish his profound skill in Phy∣sick) to convert Quakers, Cata∣baptists,

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Independents, Separatists, Schismaticks & the multitude of Phanaticks to the Church of Eng∣land. Do this, & thou shalt have my consent, not only to be ho∣nest George, Doctor George, and George the Doctor: But Sir George, St. George, and George the Saint.

But in good earnest I wish, dear Doctor, thou hadst con∣ceil'd the Divine and Moral operations of thy Medicines, upon the hearts and consciences of poor Mortals, because in these his Majesties Dominions thou canst now never more hope for any practice and employ as a Medicaster: for surely the pro∣fane Cavalier he'l not meddle with thee, for fear of being made a Schismatick, a religious Rebel or Round-head: Nor will I'm sure the devout Phana∣tick, for fear of being damn'd

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for an Atheist, a debauch'd and honest Royalist: now then or never recant, and own the Do∣ctrine of Contrarieties: now, now or never is the time to make it appear and convince the ignorant Heretical, Repro∣bate, and unconverted Galenist, that thy Chymical and Her∣metick Physick, can at one and the same time work such con∣trary effects, as to make the Serpent (thy self dear Doctor) a Saint; a Royalist, a Round∣head, and a Rebel a Royalist; Now I say is the time, the very time for thee, O Mempsis, to work these wonders; or else, (with pity and compassion I speak it) thou must, I, thou must pack up, and be gone into some of those horrid regions, where people are neither for God nor the King; for King nor Parliment,

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no, nor for my Lord Mayor, nor Common-council.

I wish also, that the Doctor had not intimated, and suggest∣ed to his Majesty that in good conscience (for the good service he has done himself, and Royal Father of blessed Memory) he ought, or can do no less than o∣verthrow, or at least new Mo∣del, and purge with his reform∣ing Physick, his College of Phy∣sicians, and two famous Univer∣ties, Cambridge and Oxford.

But above all things, after all thy glorious boasts and brags of Loyalty, thou wert be∣witch'd to petition the Parlia∣ment for no less (in effect) than his Majesties; there own, and the peoples lives and liberties: for what difference is there be∣twixt their being ruin'd, and their erecting a College for Memp∣sis,

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with immunities for him, his Heirs and Assigns to dis∣pense all the Medicines, that must be made use of in his Ma∣jesties Dominions.

This George, however rea∣sonable, and necessary it seems to thy self; yet, after thou hast fluttered a little longer like a Feather in the wind, thou wilt find that the Parliament will let thee drop, and take no more notice of thy Phanatick Freeks and frisking Seminalities of thy brain, than if a Tom▪tit▪mous, an Owl, or a Jack-daw had flown over Westminster. Let Wisdom baul, and utter her voice never so loud: let her scream and tear her throat in pieces; 'tis (as thou sayst George) all one, as if thou shouldst vo∣ciferate Neptune to forbear swallowing up Ships, since 'tis

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his Nature to do such dirty and mischievous tricks: All which the Lord Mayor, and Court of Aldermen taking into their con∣sideration, and that there's no hope, that either the King or Parliament will accommodate thee with a College; our Se∣nators and City Heroes are at this time preparing one for thee at Moor-gate.

And now, seeing he is so hardly dealt with; let his Ma∣jesty, his two Houses, his Nobi∣lity and Gentry; the Bishops and Clergy; the Lawyers and Laity; the whole City, Town and Country look to it as they will, 'tis to be seared, that what∣ever Chymick and Hermetick Physick can do, shall be done to have the same effects on them as on himself: and (if Heaven helps not) convert them all to

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non conformity, faction and se∣dition.

This zealous Mempsis in a∣nother place of his Evangeli∣um Chymicum (for all he says is Gospel) has a hymn to his Creator (and by the way let me solemnly tell him, I wonder how he dare concern so great a God! in his little designs) for putting it into the hearts of rusticks and Mariners, with their Punch, Brandy, and A∣qua vitae bottles, to teach sot∣tish Galenists, the use and ex∣cellencies of his well distilled Spirits, and the foolery of their dull Julips, fulsom and fruit∣less Apozems, Bochets, Cullices and Gellies, as you may read at large in several Paragraphs and Pages of his Book.

But to leave these extrava∣gancies, and flurts of the Hy∣pocondres:

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Lets hear what Ga∣len upon Hippocrates says con∣cerning this affair of Aliments:

This grave Philosopher in his Book De Elementis, tells us, that by a dissent of the first qualities (not from the Pun∣ctum latens, the little Atoms in the Archeus, and Seminal Idaeas in the Materia primâ,

as our inspired Mempsis will have it) but from the dissent of these first Qualities, says our Author, which proceeds immediately from the Elements themselves, and the Aliments; man is born for the Physician, and were it not for the defects proceeding from these two, man could ne∣ver dye.

From the four Elements, come the four Qualities of heat, cold, driness and moisture: from these arise the tem∣peraments

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peraments of Aliments; and from our Aliments, come the four humours, call'd Choler, Phlegm, Blood and Melancho∣ly; and out of these humours the parts; and from those parts the whole, or what we call a humane body: and when any of these four temperaments or humours are extinct, deprav'd or hurt in Quantity, Quality, or Motion, then follows Sick∣ness and Death: So that in effect, Life and Death, and e∣very mans temper and constitu∣tion, depends more or less up∣on the Aliments he feeds on; and the humours themselves are nothing more than the ef∣fect of food, v..g Choler is the fomes of blood made of Ali∣ments over digested and con∣cocted, and serves to ferment, agitate, or brisk up the con∣stipated

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Ideas of the Archeus. Flegm is made of Food, (for want of natural heat) not e∣nough concocted, and bridles choler, and keeps the blood and humours from burninig, tames, and fixes the Spirits, and makes the body, cool, fat, moist and soluble. Blood is made of Food, perfectly elaborated to augment and nourish the parts: good Food makes good Blood; and good Blood makes good Flesh: So that in effect, Flesh and Blood is only good Food. Melancholy is the Ter∣ra damnata: The Devil, the thick and drossie part of Food and Blood; and was intended by Nature to bridle the 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, the somes or froth of sperm and spirits; to temper rage and lust, to compose the thoughts and imaginations:

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but being deprav'd, it works contrary effects, as we see in our friend Mempsis.

From this little representa∣tion of man, an intelligent, and considering person may find out as easily, as by the Idaeas, Atomes, or Magots in the Archeus, how we come by Diseases, our dis∣solution and death; and also how necessary, a direct and due diet, such a diet as may answer to the four tempera∣ments, and humours of our bodies, choler, phlegm, blood, and Melancholy: how neces∣sary this (I say) is for the pre∣venting, and curing Diseases; as might be farther amplified, but that I must avoid prolixity, that the Book may not be too chargeable for the poor: Or else it might be made evident, that a diet may be collected,

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not only to heat, cool, dry and moisten, but also to

Bind
Relax
Restore
Thicken
Thin
Deobstruate
Lenifie
Revel
Resist Poyson

And all things else, that Pharmacy it self can ne∣cessarily lay claim to, to∣wards the conservation of man. But this will not consist with a short essay, and therefore as concisely, as the subject will permit, I shall only add a descripti∣on of the Nature, Use and Vertues of an Artificial

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Bath, and stove hereun∣to annex'd; with which, our Ambrosiopaeas, and a proper Diet may be per∣formed as much as can rea∣sonably be expected from the means.

What a help it is to Na∣ture, to throw off by sweat those saline, acid, sulphure∣ous, and corrosive particles of blood, which are the root of all Diseases, is manifested by the daily experience of such as are daily relieved by it, in Gouts, Scorbuts, Hecticks, the Evil, Palsies, and the

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like: as it helps thus to discharge the Serum Sal∣sum, the salt, sharp and watery parts of blood by the skin; how far this, I say, may extend it self, both for the preventing and curing many potent Diseases, when Diet and other Remedies are de∣ficient, and cannot do it, I leave to the bounty of a prudent and liberal conception.

It is so contriv'd that 'tis impossible for the pa∣tient to take cold, to faint or sweat beyond their

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strength, and own incli∣nations; nor is there any nuissance in it, that is in∣cident to Stoving, or sweat∣ing in other Baths.

Place here the Figure.

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AN APPENDIX: OR Practical Cautions AND DIRECTIONS To be observed about STOVING AND BATHING.

STtoving and Bathing are two different things: the first may not improperly be call'd a dry Bath, the other a wet; and

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when ever you meet with the word Bath, you are to understand swearing in something that is liquid, as luke-warm Milk, Milk and Water, or only warm water, or water prepared with ingredients proper for the diseased person.

Note also, that a Bath with very hot water, drys more than it moistens, and contracts the skin and pores, rather than relax or open them; and serves to supply the intention of a cold Bath; or bathing in cold water with such parts & persons, as cannot safely go into cold water: But a

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Bath of heated, tepid, or warm water, is of so great a latitude, that it extends it self to most Diseases, and serves (to use the words of a learned Author on this subject, Dr. J. F.) effectu∣ally more than any thing Physick is prescribed for, to defecate the blood and humours, to mollifie the hardness of the Spleen and bowels, to moisten, cool, and nourish a hot and dry constitution and liver, to rarifie and resolve also all cold congealed humours, and to prevent Barrenness and miscarrying, that is oc∣casioned by any intempe∣ries

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of cold, heat or dry∣ness.

When you meet with the word Stove, you are to understand sweating as in a Hot-house, without any thing that is moist and li∣quid: You will also some∣times find the word Vapo∣rarium used in this Ap∣pendix, the meaning of which will be known here∣after.

The Romans were most addicted to Bains or Baths; the Lacedemonians, Russi∣ans, Germans, and most Northern Nations to Stoves: The Turks, French and I∣talians, use both Baths and

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Stoves: and as soon as they come out of the Stove, they enter into a Bain or Bath of warm water, to wash away the recrements, slime, mador or mud (as it were) that stoving with∣out bathing is apt to leave upon the skin.

By this means also, the skin is not only made pure, clean and smooth, but also plump and fleshy: and according as the Bath may be dulcified and prepared, it will nourish, feed and refresh the limbs and mus∣culous parts, more than food: nor is there any thing to be done by the

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natural Baths at Bathe, but may be also performed by artificial Baths of Sulphur, Bitumen, Nitre, &c. and being advisedly used, they do as manifestly answer the expectation of the pa∣tient, as any remedies whatever; in order to which observe these few Directions.

1. Never Stove when the blood wants ferment, or (according to the Noti∣on of the Chymist) when the fixed salts of the blood have over-ruled the volatil, as in Dropsies, and some sorts of Scurvies: But when the Sulphur of the blood

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is too much exalted (the fomes of most acute dis∣eases) or acrimony and a∣cidity has insinuated it self into the Mass, and yet the blood not vapid, then the Stove is a proper, and most effectual remedy: Or, more plainly, according to the significant, apparent, and practical meaning of the Galenist; Stoving is not so proper and beneficial, for weak, lean, hot, hectick, dry, cholerick, maciated, melancholy and squalid bodies, as bathing; nor bathing for cold, moist, fat, corpulent, plethorick, phlegmatick & hydropick

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constitutions and diseases, as stoving: The Stove is most proper for the Spring, Autum and Winter; the Bath for the heat of Sum∣mer: the Vaporarium is neither bathing nor stove∣ing, but differing from both, and to be used by all sorts of persons at any time.

2. Before you Bathe, or enter into the Stove; if your body be not natural∣ly soluble, be sure it be made so by Art: Take a gentle Clyster over night, if you intend to sweat next morning, or take the like Clyster in the afternoon,

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if you intend to sweat at night. An hour before bed-time, and two or three hours after you have eat∣en a light supper, is the best time both for bathing and stoving, because you may lie all night after in your bed, and have your body well refresh'd and settled by morning. Note also, that while you are sweating in a Stove, Bath or Bed, you may refresh your self with Mace-ale, Egg - caudle, Chicken∣broth, or any convenient Bocheet, supping or liquid Aliment.

3. When you come out

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of any Stove or Bath, take great care you take not cold: For preventing which, and many other ac∣cidents, nothing hath ever yet been invented compa∣rable to this 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, Bal∣neum, and vaporarium, now all in one presented to you; which is so safe, so commodious and effe∣ctual, both for preventing and curing almost all Dis∣eases, that nothing ever was, or can be advised better, for private Fami∣lies than to have one of them constantly in their houses; it being so con∣trived, that it may stand in

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any bed-chamber, with as much conveniency and or∣nament, as a well wrought Chest of Drawers or Ca∣binet.

In Italy, France, Ger∣many, Turkie, and many o∣ther Countries, they are so curious, and (not with∣out good cause) so addicted to stoving and bathing, that they count their ha∣bitations not compleatly furnish'd, and well provi∣ded and cared for, until they have them in their houses, esteeming them the most commendable and necessary furniture that be∣longs to them: and scarce

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a Family of any remark and quality is to be found without them; and if our English Gentry, especial∣ly those that live in the Country, remote from Phy∣sicians, did also take up this custom, they would have no cause to repent them of their care and con∣sideration: Besides, not only their healths, but interest and good husbandry might induce them to it, it being the most profitable Phy∣sician and Apothecary they can make use of.

Another benefit of having them in their houses, is the accommoda∣tion

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of their sevants, at∣tendants, bedding and lin∣nen, and the avoiding ma∣ny accidents by lying, bathing or stoving after strangers: by this means also, they will be encou∣raged to use them the oft∣ner; at least 'tis likely it will induce them not to fail, spring and fall; those being (though no time a∣miss) the most necessary times to prevent Diseases, and preserve their bodies in a perfect 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, health and integrity the whole year after.

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would frequently advise their Patients to stoving and bathing, had they them in their own houses, but the charge and trouble on all occasions of providing them, does too often dis∣courage both the Pati∣ent and Physician. By this means also you may a∣void Spring and Fall, the use of Diet-Drinks, Phy∣sick••ale, and the like, which being at those times so rashly and promiscu∣ously used as they are, do more hurt than good. Let∣ting blood also in the Spring, may by this means be prevented, only ob∣serving

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then a spare and cool Diet, which the An∣cients call'd their 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, or succedaneum to blood∣letting: Abstinence rather than bleeding being their way to abate blood, and prevent diseases: and to deal uprightly in a matter of so great concernment, for a preventive, 'tis to be preferred before opening of a Vein, which I do not much fancy, but in cases of extreme necessity, and not upon every trivial distem∣per, and occasion that of∣fers it self: Bood being that which makes blood, and (as the oyl and lamp

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of life) not prodigally to be expended, lest like the foolish Virgins we have our Oyl to buy, when we should have it to burn.

The particular benefits of bathing and stoving are not easily to be reckon∣ed up in a transient dis∣course, but that which they are so generally fam'd for, is to depurate the bad re∣crements of the blood, the lassitude, and lumpishness of the limbs, and to make the whole body brisk, nimble, light and airy.

They prevent and cure all Agues, and Fevers of all sorts, both ardent, he∣ctick,

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putrid and pestilen∣tial; and in times of con∣tagion, are of absolute use, provided the place they sweat in (as it common∣ly happeneth) be not in∣fected; which (if for no∣thing else) were enough to encourage persons to have these Stoves in their Houses.

And as there is nothing more effectual to prevent the Plague, than sweating moderately in these sorts of Stoves, once or twice a week: So also, if infected, nothing can exceed them for a Cure, taking at the same time convenient Cor∣dials:

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Nature by a Metastasis, being thereby assisted to throw off the poyson and venom of the blood, from the Center, to the remote parts of the body, which is the only intention of the cure, the like is to be said of the Small-pox, malig∣nant Fevers, and all conta∣gious diseases.

It relieves or cures all sorts of pains and aches, as Sciatica's, Gouts, &c. it cures also limbs, that are weak and relax'd, and all cold, and moist diseases got by cold.

Bathing by the mildness of its heat, mollifies and

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relaxes, softens & smooths, and on this account is very proper, and very prevalent to cure contracted mem∣bers, and parts obstructed, either outward or inward, as the breast, spleen, liver.

Bathing also, wonder∣fully relieves and easeth Nephritick pains, and such as are tortured and trou∣bled with the Stone, Cho∣lick pains, Hemorrhoids, stopping of Urine and Courses, and makes a co∣stive belly soluble and loose.

All diseases of the si∣news, and all internal dis∣eases proceeding from a

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cold and moist cause, are prevented & cured by Sto∣ving, as Rheumes, Palsies, Lethargies, Cramps, Deaf∣ness, weakness, swelling and numbness of the joynts: 'tis also a speci∣fick against the Kings-E∣vil and Jaundies, Scabs, Itch, Chilblains, and all efflorescences of the skin. In short, it so alters and de∣fecates the blood, that you may alter as you will by them and diet, the whole habit of the body, & make it another thing than what it is; like the ship at A∣thens, though it continued still a ship, yet had it not

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by often reparation, one foot of the timber it was first built with.

And not only sick and diseased persons, but such as are in health may receive profit, but no prejudice in the least by them: and my ingenuous friend Mr. H. H. has told me, that in his travels to Russia, Sclavonia, and other Eastern parts of Europe, he observed that in those Countries, it was not possible for the inha∣bitants to live (for want of ventilation) were it not for their Stoves, but by the continual and frequent use of them, no people are to

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be found more sound and healthful; and are thereby so little beholden to Phy∣sick, that the name is scarce known among them: and not a place of any note, but has one in them

So also the Scorbute or Scurvy, by often and fre∣quent Stoving, is never heard of among those peo∣ple (though for want of perspiration) they would else be inclin'd to it more than we in England. 'Tis their only refuge also to prevent Fevers, Gouts, Palsies, &c. after they have debauch'd themselves with high drinking, which these

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people, to the great scan∣dal of their Country, are most infamously addicted unto.

Many people, especial∣ly such as are Hysterick and Hypocondriack, by Stoving in common Stoves and Hot-houses, are sub∣ject to fumes, head-ach, swounings, and suffocating vapours: But in this sort of Stove, (the head being in the open Air, all the while they sweat) these and many other evil acci∣dents are prevented, nor are they at all offended with any noisome vapours or suffocating fumes.

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The manner of using it is thus.

Your body being made so∣luble by some gentle Lenitive or Clyster, go naked into the Stove; stay in it about half an hour more or less to your con∣tent, or the nature of your disease, taking while you sweat some comfortable supping, as Mace ale, or whatever else may be advised by your Physician: while you are sweating, you may increase or decrease the heat your self, and sweat as you please; after you have sweat to your content, you may have the Flammi••ers, or ••••re Vessels remov'd; and the neck-board slided away, and so slip down into the wet Bath and there wash off the recrements, the slime and filth of your former sweat, with balls invented for

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that purpose: Then (after you have bathed about half an hour) stand upon your feet, and wipe your body dry & step out of the Bath into a warm Bed, and lye warm till your body be well settled, and afterwards rise, and having taken some warm broth, you may go a∣broad, renewed to admiration, and sufficiently recompenced for what you have done.

That which we call vapora∣rium, is a place in the Stove, contriv'd chiefly for diseases of the Womb, Anus, and diseases of the inferiour belly; as Dys∣enteries, Hemorrhoids, Can∣cers, and fistulated Ulcers, Scyrrhous tumours, Barrenness, Abortion, Menses, Secundines, and every 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, and were it for nothing else but de∣cency (Cùm vapor per infundi∣bulum & fistulam plumbeam▪ in

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Ʋterum, vel anum ingredia∣tur) it was enough to induce private Familes and persons to have one of these Stoves by them.

It still remains, that I give some account of the Hydro∣ticks which feed the Flammi∣fers; or how and what it is that causeth the patient to sweat; it is not caused by any gross mate∣rial fire of wood, coles, &c. as the common Chairs and Stoves are, but 'tis by an essential Oyl, cohibited by retorts with well rectified Spirit of Wine; and if you have the true exalt∣ed, and perfect Oyly-spirit so well incorporated, and sepa∣rated from its phlegm, as it ought, it will penetrate, and prove as active as lightning it self.

There are some who know

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no better, who do in these cases use common Brandy, and our poor, mean English Spirits, and they succeed in their cures ac∣cordingly, there being seldom any visible or manifest benefit received by it: Whereas, those mighty and potent dis∣eases, of a confirm'd knotted Gout, an ulcerated Kings-evil, Palsies, and the like, are fre∣quently subdued by the Oyly spirit rightly prepared▪ as might be made appear, did it not sa∣vour too much of the Pseudo∣chymist, the Mountebank and Mechanick.

All that I have else to add, being confined to a short Trea∣tise, and supposing that after the publishing this manner of Bathing and Stoving, there will be no want of undertakers, and such as will pretend to the utmost that can be done by it;

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yet, that abuses may be pre∣vented, and none but wilful people deceived, this is to sig∣nifie, that the very same pre∣paration of Spirits for the Flammifers, that produce those great effects by sweat, and that I use my self, may be had at Mr. Briggs an Apothecary, at his house by Abb-Church near Cannon-street: or in Spittle∣fields near the Salmon. By the help of which Spirit, any that have these Stoves of their own, may do as much with them to∣wards curing themselves, as can be done for them, by the most mighty hand, and most magni∣fi'd Medicine of a Chymist.

Those that desire more ample satisfaction on this subject may read Galen, do sanitat. tuend. The Learned Lord Verulam, de vit. & morte: And the wise Se∣neca's Epist. de Baln.

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GƲLIELMO, Viri famigeratissimi Gulielmi Whitmore, unico proli, Necnon Costae suae formosae Et Castissimae, Dominae Fran. Whitmore, Filiolae Viri nobilis Thomae Whitmore Equitis Aurati, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 hoc T. C. Med. D. D.

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Part the first By way of DIALOGUE Betwixt Philanthropos.Eugenius, &Lazarus.Physician,Apothecary, &Patient. (Book 1)

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CHAP. I.

Treats of a Cold or cooling Diet, for Hot Diseases and Consti∣tutions.

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CHAP. II.

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Part the first By way of DIALOGUE Betwixt
Philanthropos.
Eugenius, &
Lazarus.
Physician,
Apothecary, &
Patient.
(Book 1)