caused by taking Cold, yet this comes to pass but seldom, unless
in such Bodies whose Mass of Blood being rendered Cachectic, thro’
frequent Influxes of dispirited Chyle, is pre-disposed to receive,
and unable to free it self from this New Influx of Catarrhous Rheum:
For suppose Two Persons in like manner deprived of the Benefit of
usual Transpiration, by some great Cold, which tho’ troublesome in
the beginning, because of a violent and continual Distillation of
Extravasated _Serum_ upon the Glandulous Coat of the Wind-pipe,
and other adjacent Glands, yet in the One of these it survives not
the accidental feverish Disposition of the Blood, occasioned by
the Stoppage of the Pores: For as soon as the Ferment ceaseth, the
separated Humours, partly for want of a new Influx of _Serum_, and
partly by the natural Heat of these Parts, are concocted into a thick
sort of Phlegm, and coughed up; after the Expectoration of which
separated _Serum_ the glandulous Parts presently recover their natural
Tone, without any Remains of a Tumour, Cough, Shortness of Breath, or
other Inconvenience; but in the other this feverish Ferment, occasioned
by taking Cold, is not transitory, but so habitually fixed by means
of some previous Indisposition, as to encrease the Effervescence and
Colliquation of the Blood and Spirits; from whence all the Glands which
are seated in the upper part of the _Larynx_, as also the glandulous
Coat of the Wind-pipe it self are overflown with a Deluge of hot
distempered Humours, the Substance of the _Lungs_ distended with hard
Tumours, the Branches of the Wind-pipe comprest, and the Wind-pipe it
self from these Swellings irritated to Cough, by a continual tickling,
which promotes a frequent spewing out of hot sharp Humours all along
the _Aspera Arteria_, till at length these Tubercles growing very
large, begin to inflame and suppurate; immediately upon the breaking
or opening of those Apostemes, sometimes such a Flood of corrupted
Matter is poured out of their Baggs or Cavities, into the Branches of
the _Trachea_, as compleatly suffocates and choaks the Patient; but at
other times this Purulent Matter, mixt with streaks of Blood, and some
thin Phlegm that is continually discharged from the glandulous Coat of
the Wind-pipe, is coughed up by degrees, and then this deplorable Case
requires Specific Medicines, to cleanse and heal these Ulcers.
V. Such kind of _Consumptions_ whose Original is store of malignant
acrimonious Humours, which are most apt to inflame and putrify, may be
termed acute, when compared to others that proceed from Humours more
mild and benign. There may be likewise some difference made by omitting
Bleeding, and committing some egregious Errors in Diet, Exercise,
Passions of the Mind, or any other of the _Non-Naturals_: However,
all _Consumptions_ of the _Lungs_ ought to be reckoned in the Number
of Chronical Distempers, because they are contracted and augmented by
degrees, and no other way to be remedied; yet this doth not prove them
incurable in their own Nature, for Reason and Experience both teach the
contrary: And indeed I must confess, it was from the marvelous Success
of these Remedies that I first imbibed this Notion, _viz._ _Ulcers_
of the _Lungs_ are in themselves curable. Sometimes a Fever or other
acute Distemper may be jugulated, when either Nature or Art carries
off the Morbific Matter by a sudden _Crisis_ or plentiful Evacuation,
but all hopes of dispatching a confirmed _Consumption_ of the _Lungs_
instantly are groundless, seeing many inveterate Obstructions must be
removed, abundance of tough glutinous Humours attenuated and evacuated,
the whole Mass of Blood and Spirits rectified, the Habit of the Body
meliorated, and the Tone of several parts recovered, before we can
eradicate this fixed Distemper.
What will be the Issue and Result of this _Consumptive-Disease_, may
rationally be prognosticated from it’s several Stages or Degrees:
For when the Mass of Blood by a continual Influx of sour dispirited
Chyle is reduced to a sharp and hectical State, and the _Serum_ which
is separated from this corrupted Blood only stuffs the Bladders and
Glandules which are dispersed thro’ the Body of the Lungs, this
Distemper may be said to be in it’s Infancy or beginning, (and if
sovereign Remedies were then presented, they might obtain an easy
Conquest) but the Increase is attended with a greater Distention of
the Glands and Bladders, as also an Inflammation of these Tubercles
tending to suppuration: For when the Animal Spirits which are necessary
to the natural Fermentation of the Blood are vitiated with unwholesome
Particles of a foggy and thick Air, and the Humour which for a long
time hath been contained in the Baggs or Cavities of the Lungs is
over-heated by some extraordinary Ebullition or Fermentation of the
Blood, with a total Suppression of Expectoration, the Cough becomes
more violent, the Fever inflammatory, and all parts more tabid. In
it’s further Progress or State all Symptoms advance apace towards
their Extremity, Suppuration now succeeds the Inflammation of these
Tubercles, for that the Purulent Matter is either breeding or already
made, the Inflammatory Hectic is changed into a putrid Intermitting
Fever, attended with an Universal Colliquation of the Nutritious Juices
and plentiful Separation of them from the Mass of Blood by all ways of
Evacuation that Nature affords; whence the Patients strength suddainly
decays, and in a short time he is reduced to the highest State of a
_Marasmus_, with an _Hippocratic_ Face.
VI. Thus having demonstrated to the meanest Capacity the Power of this
prevailing Evil, with it’s efficient and material Causes, Reason it
self presently suggests nothing less than great and noble Medicines
can tame a Distemper so formidable. It is no less obvious to the
Understanding of every one that professeth any thing of Physic, that
the sooner the Cure is begun the better, the more moderate the Patient
is in the use of the Six _Non-Naturals_, the more likely to succeed;
the Spring-time is the best Season, Universals are to be premised,
extraordinary Symptoms and Circumstances peculiarly attended, and such
like things must run through the whole Course of Practice.
No doubt but the Chalibeate Mineral Waters when impregnated with
the Volatile Salts and Spirits of a serene Air, pleasant Society,
delightful Recreations, Morning and Evening Walks, regular Diet,
Freedom from Business, vexatious Thoughts, Exercise[4], and the rest
may be serviceable: But if the _Jesuit_ were sentenced to perpetual
Exile, I think the Consumptive have no reason excessively to lament,
for I can tell them who hath a Febrifuge Antihectical, without a Grain
of the _Jesuit_, more excellent far than the _Peruvian_ Bark, because
it makes a safe, not a treacherous Peace, and can give a Reason of it’s
working so stupendiously, tho’ they who know not how a thing can be
done, think it impossible to be done.
[4] Particularly that of _Riding_; relating to which, consult Mr
FULLER’s _Medicina Gymnastica_.
For my part, I do not believe any Medicine can work a Cure in the way
of a Charm, yet they who either know or use no other (at least for the
most part) than ordinary Medicines, cannot conceive how such wonderful
Effects can be wrought, unless by Inchantment[5].
[5] See _Boyle_ on _Specific Medicines._
The common Method of Cure is by Bleeding to abate the Effervescence
or Colliquation of the Blood, and prevent the Tumour and Inflammation
of the Lungs, by Vomits to relieve the Stomach opprest with store of
ill Humours, and remove divers Obstructions of several Bowels and
small Vessels, by Stomach-Purges gently to carry down the peccant
Humours; and lastly by Diuretics and Diaphoretics with some mixture of
an Opiate, plentifully to carry off the Colliquated _Serum_ by Urine,
or the Pores of the Skin, without raising a fresh Catarrh by a new
Commotion of the Blood. After a due Administration of these universal
Evacuations, (which in their respective Seasons are highly necessary)
the frequent Use of Pectoral Apozems and Pulmonary Linctuses is next
enjoined, to retund the Acrimony of the Humours which ouze out of the
Wind-pipe, by their mucilaginous and incrassating Quality, and so
mitigate the troublesome Cough. How far serviceable to this end and
purpose the neatest Forms of such Dispensations that I ever yet saw may
be, I will not dispute, only this I must take leave to say, because to
me (as also to the unprejudiced I humbly conceive) it seems evident
that such fulsom Ingredients of which they are compounded, are more
apt to spoil a weak than recover a lost Stomach, and consequently not
the fittest Medicines Consumptive Persons may have recourse to: For
how many by woful Experience have found the constant and frequent use
of such Anti-Stomachics led them from one Degree of this Malady to
another, ’till their decaying Appetite hath been quite overthrown, (and
consequently their hectic Heat inflamed) their Bodies so emaciated, as
to render them uncapable of necessary Evacuations, and they themselves
at last given over to a Milk Diet, Asses Milk, some Chalibeate Mineral
Waters, or such like Liquids, to which the poor distressed Stomach
ecchoes aloud, _Miserable Comforters all_! If therefore I can, as I
have Reason to believe, with Medicines less offensive in Quantity, and
more useful in Quality, restore the lost Appetite, and do the same, if
not greater Service towards the Concocting and Expectorating that load
of separated _Serum_ with which the Pipes of the Lungs are stuffed,
(which will easily be perceived by the Patient in a few Weeks with due
Care and Management) I think I have gained a great Point, forasmuch as
the Recovery of the Stomach may reasonably be looked upon as an Earnest
of the Cure.
The Medicines I do here recommend to my Countrymen as Specific
in the Cure of _Consumption_ of the _Lungs_, arising from the
fore-mentioned Causes, have a peculiar Faculty of warming, comforting
and strengthening weak Stomachs, attenuating and gently carrying off
that load of Tartareous Matter which is lodged in their rugous Coat,
depraving both Appetite and Digestion. In their Passage thro’ the
whole Circumference of the Guts, they likewise dissolve that crusted
Slime and Filth which hinders the Pressure of the Chyle into the Milky
Vessels by the Peristaltic Motion of their Spiral Fibres: Thus having
removed these Fundamental Obstructions, they hasten together with the
Chylous Mixture, which by this time is somewhat Invigorated towards the
Relief of the Sanguineous Mass, presently upon their Conjunction the
Blood revives, and by degrees becomes brisk and vigorous, able to cope
with, and give some check to the preternatural hectic Heat, stop the
Influx of the Rheum into the Glandulous Substance of the Lungs, concoct
that which is already collected, and release the Animal Spirits,
intangled with a vitious disposition of the Nervous Juice. Having
gained these Advantages, things begin to look with another manner of
Aspect, the Habit of the Body grows firmer, the Mind chearfuller, the
Countenance fresh and brisk, the emaciated Parts gather Flesh and
Strength, the Lungs and Glands of the _Larynx_ recover their natural
Tone, and the whole Constitution improves towards a State of Health.
Moreover, These _Anti-Phthisics_ are really impregnated with such
Volatile Spirits and Salts, that as Lightning they penetrate the
remotest Corners of the Body, exterminating the very Seeds and Roots
of this grievous Disease, powerfully and effectually, yet pleasantly
and securely, if plentifully taken in the manner of a Diet: For thus
in time they chear up the drooping Animal Spirits, fortify the System
of the Nerves, and so influence the whole Sanguineous Mass, as that
the Blood it self becomes the most precious of all natural Balsoms,
marvellously cleansing the putrid _Ulcers_ of the _Lungs_, and finally
reducing them to a perfect _Cicatrix_.
Wherefore let none be deceived by the flattering Nature of this
Distemper in the beginning, nor give themselves over for lost in the
highest State, because these reviving Cordials are calculated for
the weakest Constitutions, seeing at the same time they offend the
Diseased Matter on the one Hand, they support Nature from sinking
under any Evacuations on the other. It is therefore my Advice to the
_Consumptive_, or _Consumptively-inclined_, and their Interest (by way
of Prevention) to acquaint themselves in time with these Sovereign
Antidotes. Better Counsel I cannot give to the best of my Friends, if
they are desirous to save themselves a great deal of Pain and Misery,
as well as Charges, and render their Lives comfortable to themselves
and serviceable to others.
The Warmness of these Medicines, which is the only Objection that
ever I met with in the use of them, is so far from being a real
Discouragement, as that upon serious and judicious Considerations,
it becomes a Notable Argument to enforce the taking of them; for
otherwise they would be too weak to engage the Original Cause of
hectic, burning and putrid Fevers; whereas by this active Principle
of Heat, they work so effectually upon the whole Mass of Chyle, as
to separate the sharp and dispirited from the nutritious Particles
thereof, thoroughly insinuate themselves into all the Avenues of the
Adversary, cut and divide the tough viscous Humours which distemper
the Veins, Arteries and Nerves, destroy the Acidity of the Nervous
Juice, recover the Natural Temper of the Animal Spirits, sweeten the
Mass of Blood, by separating the Impurities thereof by the Cutaneous
Glands, gently forcing a Transpiration of the Feverish Particles of
the whole, and so banish that Preternatural Heat which is Proof to
all common Remedies. And that Diseases which carry in their outward
Appearance a shew of preternatural Heat are thus to be treated with
warm Medicines, is indeed observable to every discerning Eye: For
the most malignant Fevers are attacked and conquered by the briskest
and warmest _Alexipharmics_ and the most violent _Erysipelas_, or
St _Anthony_’s _Fire_, is discussed and breathed out by strong
and spirituous Fomentations, but are both of them exasperated by
refrigerating or cooling Medicines, and their preternatural Heat more
and more increased, till the one at length terminates in the _cold
sweats of Death_, and the other in a compleat _Mortification_.
To multiply Encomiums of this kind is remote from my intended Brevity,
therefore take this remarkable one for all: The Efficacy of _Specific
Medicines_ may be experienced from Mr _Boyle_’s unparalelled Treatise,
herein referred to, and from the full Descriptions I have given any
Chymist of Eminence, upon consulting each respective Patient’s Case,
can effectually prepare them. But I would more particularly recommend
for this Purpose the Skilful Mr _Boyle Godfrey_, in _Covent-Garden_.
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TO THE
SOCIETIES
FOR
_Reformation of Manners_.
GENTLEMEN,
The great Pains and Diligence You have employ’d in the Defence of
Modesty and Virtue, give You an undisputed Title to the Address of this
Treatise; tho’ it is with the utmost Concern that I find myself under a
Necessity of writing it, and that after so much Reforming, there should
be any Thing left to say upon the Subject, besides congratulating
You upon Your happy Success. It is no small Addition to my Grief to
observe, that Your Endeavours to suppress Lewdness have only serv’d
to promote it; and that this _Branch_ of _Immorality_ has _grown_
under Your Hands, as if it was _prun’d_ instead of being _lopp’d_. But
however Your ill Success may grieve, it cannot astonish me: What else
could we hope for, from Your persecuting of poor strolling Damsels?
From your stopping up those _Drains_ and _Sluices_ we had to let out
Lewdness? From your demolishing those _Horn-works_ and _Breast-works_
of Modesty? Those _Ramparts_ and _Ditches_ within which the Virtue
of our Wives and Daughters lay so conveniently _intrench’d_? An
Intrenchment so much the safer, by how much the Ditches were harder
to be fill’d up. Or what better could we expect from Your Carting of
Bawds, than that the Great Leviathan of Leachery, for Want of these
Tubs to play with, should, with one Whisk of his Tail, overset the
_Vessel_ of Modesty? Which, in her best Trim, we know to be somewhat
_leaky_, and to have a very unsteady _Helm_.
An ancient Philosopher compares Lewdness to a wild, fiery, and
headstrong young Colt, which can never be broke till he is rid into a
Bog: And _Plato_, on the same Subject, has these Words; _The Gods_,
says he, _have given us one disobedient and unruly Member, which, like
a greedy and ravenous Animal that wants Food, grows wild and furious,
till having imbib’d the Fruit of the common Thirst, he has plentifully
besprinkled and bedewed the Bottom of the Womb_.
And now I have mentioned the Philosophers, I must beg Your Patience for
a Moment, to hear a short Account of their Amours: For nothing will
convince us of the irresistible Force of Love, and the Folly of hoping
to suppress it, sooner than reflecting, that those venerable _Sages_,
those Standards of Morality, those great _Reformers_ of the World,
were so sensibly touch’d with this tender Passion.
_Socrates_ confess’d, that, in his old Age, he felt a strange tickling
all over him for five Days, only by a Girl’s touching his Shoulder.
_Xenophon_ made open Profession of his passionate Love to _Clineas_.
_Aristippus_ of _Cyrene_, writ a lewd Book of ancient Delights; he
compar’d a Woman to a House or a Ship, that was the better for being
used: He asserted, that there was no Crime in Pleasure, but only in
being a Slave to it: And often used to say, I _enjoy_ Lais, _but_ Lais
_does not enjoy me_.
_Theodorus_ openly maintain’d, that a wise Man might without Shame or
Scandal, keep Company with common Harlots.
_Plato_, our great Pattern for chaste-Love, proposes, as the greatest
Reward for public Service, that he who has perform’d a signal Exploit,
should not be deny’d any amorous Favour. He writ a Description of the
Loves of his Time, and several amorous Sonnets upon his own Minions:
His chief Favorites were _Asterus_, _Dio_, _Phædrus_, and _Agatho_; but
he had, for Variety, his Female Darling _Archeanassa_; and was so noted
for Wantonness, that _Antisthenes_, gave him the Nick-name of _Satho_,
i. e. _Well-furnish’d_.
_Polemo_ was prosecuted by his Wife for Male-Venery.
_Crantor_ made no Secret of his Love to his Pupil _Arcesilaus_.
_Arcesilaus_ made Love to _Demetrius_ and _Leocharus_; the last, he
said, he would fain have open’d: Besides, he publickly visited the two
_Elean_ Courtezans, _Theodota_ and _Philæta_, and was himself enjoy’d
by _Demochares_ and _Pythocles_: He suffer’d the last, he said, for
Patience-sake.
_Bion_ was noted for debauching his own Scholars.
_Aristotle_, the first _Peripatetic_, had a Son call’d _Nichomacus_,
by his Concubine _Herpilis_: He lov’d her so well, that he left her
in his Will a Talent of Silver, and the Choice of his Country-Houses;
that, as he says, the Damsel might have no Reason to complain: He
enjoy’d, besides the Eunuch _Hermias_, others say only his Concubine
_Pythais_, upon whom he writ a Hymn, call’d, _The Inside_.
_Demetrius Phalereus_, who had 360 Statues in _Athens_, kept _Lamia_
for his Concubine, and at the same time was himself enjoy’d by _Cleo_:
He writ a Treatise, call’d, _The Lover_, and was nick-nam’d by the
Courtezans, _Charito_, _Blespharus_, i. e. _A Charmer of Ladies_; and
_Lampetes_, i. e. _A great Boaster of his Abilities_.
_Diogenes_, the _Cynic_, us’d to say, that Women ought to be in
common, and that Marriage was nothing but a Man’s getting a Woman in
the Mind to be lain with: He often us’d Manual Venery in the public
Market-place, with this Saying. _Oh! that I could assuage my Hunger
thus with rubbing of my Stomach!_
But what Wonder if the old _Academics_, the _Cyrenaics_, and
_Peripatetics_, were so lewdly wanton, when the very _Stoics_, who
prided themselves in the Conquest of all their other Passions, were
forc’d to submit to this?
_Zeno_, indeed, the Founder of that Sect, was remarkable for his
Modesty, because he rarely made Use of Boys, and took but once an
ordinary Maid-Servant to Bed, that he might not be thought to hate
the Sex; yet, in his _Commonwealth_, he was for a Community of Women;
and writ a Treatise, wherein he regulated the Motions of getting a
Maidenhead, and philosophically prov’d Action and Reaction to be equal.
_Chrysippus_ and _Apollodorus_ agree with _Zeno_ in a Community of
Women, and say, that a wise Man may be in Love with handsome Boys.
_Erillus_, a Scholar of _Zeno_’s, was a notorious Debauchee.
I need not mention the _Epicureans_ who were remarkable for their
Obscenity.
_Epicurus_ used to make a Pander of his own Brother; and his Scholar,
the Great _Metrodorus_, visited all the noted Courtezans in _Athens_,
and publicly kept the famous _Leontium_, his Master’s _Quondam_
Mistress. Yet, if you will believe _Laertius_, he was every Way a good
Man.
But what shall we say of our Favourite _Seneca_, who, with all his
_Morals_, could never acquire the Reputation of _Chastity_? He was
indeed somewhat Nice in his Amours, like the Famous _Flora_, who was
never enjoy’d by any Thing less than a Dictator or a Consul; for he
scorn’d to intrigue with any Thing less than the Empress.
Now, if those Reverend School-Masters of Antiquity, were so loose in
their Seminals, shall we, of this Age, set up for Chastity? Have our
_Oxford Students_ more Command of their Passions than the _Stoics_? Are
our Young _Templars_ less Amorous than _Plato_? Or, is an _Officer_ of
the Army less Ticklish in the Shoulder than _Socrates_?
But I need not waste any Rhetoric upon so evident a Truth; for plain
and clear Propositions, like Windows painted, are only the more Obscure
the more they are adorn’d.