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<P>THE Be&s;t Way OF U&s;ing the True Salt POLYCHREST OF <HI>MESSIE&V;RS SEIGNETTE</HI> OF ROCHEL.</P>
<P><HI>LONDON,</HI> Printed for the Author. MDCLXXXV.</P>
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<HEAD>The be&s;t Way of U&s;ing the true Salt <HI>Polychrest</HI> of <HI>Me&s;|&s;ieurs Seignette</HI> of Rochel.</HEAD>
<P>THis Remedy has got &s;uch a Repu|tation abroad, that 'tis no Won|der if &s;ome People have been and are &s;till very eager to di&s;co|ver it. So natural it is for Mankind to inquire into all Things; and &s;uch is the Duty incumbent on tho&s;e who take up|on them the Cure of Di&s;ea&s;es, as to omit nothing that may conduce to &s;o great a Thing as Health is. But we have rea|&s;on to wonder both at the Ignorance and Ba&s;ene&s;s of tho&s;e Men, who, abu&s;ing the Tru&s;t we had repo&s;ed in them for the Sale of this Polychre&s;t, have coun|terfeited it, and do &s;till counterfeit it (as doth one <HI>Mr. Rou&s;&s;ean</HI> in Paris)
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<PB N="2" REF="4">with a Mixture of Sulphur and Saltpe|ter burnt together. The Effects of which have been too fatal, and have &s;ufficiently taught us how dangerous it was to be &s;urpri&s;ed by the Equivoque of a Name &s;ignifying &s;o contrary Things. It was upon that ground that in the Year 1675 we publi&s;hed a Treati&s;e of all the Imita|tions of our <HI>Polychrest</HI> that were then made, wherein we made it appear how much they differed from ours. Of which Truth the Learned were &s;o fully convin|ced, upon a &s;trict Inquiry made in that Juncture of Time in the mo&s;t famous Univer&s;ities of <HI>France,</HI> and by the Ex|periments that were made of it in pri|vate, that I need not inlarge upon it.</P>
<P>The only De&s;ign of the&s;e Papers is, to &s;hew how to u&s;e this Remedy more me|thodically and to more Advantage than has been done hitherto; and to declare withall, that we have took away the Selling of it from <HI>Mr. Angibaud,</HI> a French Apothecary living in S. Martins Lane, who was intru&s;ted with the Sale thereof. For, having made an ill U&s;e of the Tru&s;t
<PB N="3" REF="4">we had put in him, and taking an Ad|vantage of our dwelling out of this King|dom, he has made bold to put off, un|der our Name and Seal, a Powder of his own making. Which has proved &s;o per|nicious, and has &s;o far indangered the Lives of &s;ome Per&s;ons of great Quality in this Kingdom, that the true Polychre&s;t was brought into Su&s;picion. And in|deed it was natural enough for Per&s;ons that could not, through &s;uch a cunning Di&s;gui&s;e, and &s;o deceitful an Out&s;ide, di&s;cen the true Remedy from the Coun|terfeit, to exclaim again&s;t the true one, and charge it as a mi&s;chievous Thing, though never &s;o beneficial to Mankind.</P>
<P>This very Thing was fit to be took notice of, the rather for that our Repu|tation and the Lives of &s;uch Per&s;ons are at &s;take, and becau&s;e <HI>Mr. Angibaud</HI> (as we are informed) continues to &s;ell his Polychre&s;t, contrary to a Promi&s;e he hath given us under his own hand, that he would not meddle with it any more. 'Tis true he has dre&s;&s;ed it up with new Covers, and that the Name and Town
<PB N="4" REF="5" MS="y">printed thereon are &s;ufficient Marks to di&s;tingui&s;h it from ours. But, if on the one &s;ide he has &s;tripped it of its former borrowed Out-&s;ide, he has inriched it on the other with the Spoils of a &s;mall Treati&s;e publi&s;hed by us in French about fifteen Years &s;ince. In&s;omuch that he gives his Polychre&s;t all the Virtues of ours, though he knows well enough, and has been told of it &s;ufficiently, that there is a va&s;t Difference.</P>
<P>This &s;econd Shift is no le&s;s captious and cunning than the fir&s;t. For he fore|&s;aw very well, that few Per&s;ons would give them&s;elves the trouble of compa|ring the Copy with the Original. And, if any were &s;o far curious, he knew they could but commend him for his faithful Tran&s;lation, for having followed his Text clo&s;e, without adding or dimini&s;h|ing, without changing the Words or the Sen&s;e, but rendering the Whole, word for word, out of French into Engli&s;h. The Gentleman was &s;en&s;ible, that in &s;uch a Ca&s;e as this, if any, he mu&s;t be &s;trict and con&s;cientious, and do things
<PB N="5" REF="5"><HI>bon&acirc; fide.</HI> The Truth is, we cannot but commend his for it, and return him Thanks for&s;ooth for the Re&s;pect he &s;hewed to our Treati&s;e, &s;o far as to ima|gine it &s;hould contain all the Virtues of his Powder, and that it was of it &s;elf &s;ufficient to cry it up. One good Turn de&s;erves another; and 'tis but fit we &s;hould expre&s;s our Gratitude to him by the&s;e two good Offices.</P>
<P>In the fir&s;t place, I &s;hall make his Apology again&s;t tho&s;e that might find fault with him for having altered the Method of our Book which he was plea|&s;ed to tran&s;cribe. For, whereas we had &s;poke but towards the end of it of the U&s;e which might be made of our <HI>Poly|chre&s;t</HI> with Mineral Waters, without opening at large the Advantages that might come by it, he began his Treati&s;e by &s;hewing how ea&s;ily his Powder is di&s;&s;olved in the &s;aid Waters, and how it brings them out of the Body, &s;ome|times by Stools, and &s;ometimes by Urine. Now this Tran&s;po&s;ition is certainly very judicious, and nothing could be better
<PB N="6" REF="6">contrived for his purpo&s;e, being it con|tains all the Virtues one may mo&s;t ratio|nally attribute unto his Powder. Which, if capable of producing any good Effect, mu&s;t needs do it on this Occa&s;ion. 'Tis well known, that mo&s;t of the Salts u&s;ed in Phy&s;ick, being &s;u&s;pected in a &s;mall quantity of Water, may be drunk with|out Fear, being well di&s;&s;olved, and e&s;|pecially in that va&s;t Quantity of Water which &s;ome People u&s;e to drink up.</P>
<P>In the next place we &s;hall do him the Kindne&s;s to &s;hew him a more ready, and perhaps a cheaper, Way than he has to make his Powder. Let him but take what Quantity he plea&s;es of Salt of Tar|tar, or of any other Alkali, fixed and well-purified, and add to it a rea&s;onable quantity of acid Spirit, and he &s;hall &s;ee pre&s;ently all his Salt purified and chry|&s;tallized. If he que&s;tion this Experiment, he may inquire about it of the Phy&s;ici|ans, and other Virtuo&s;i, in who&s;e Pre|&s;ence I made it. They will a&s;&s;ure him, that out of that Mixture of Acid and Al|kali, there comes a Salt of the &s;ame Ta&s;te
<PB N="7" REF="6">and nature as his, that will &s;tand any Proof. They will te&s;tify unto him, that, after it is dryed up and pulverized, if it be thrown into cold Water, it is pre&s;ent|ly congealed, and turned into chry&s;tal|line lumps, in&s;tead of being di&s;&s;olved; that tho&s;e Chry&s;tals are long, &s;harp|pointed, and ea&s;ily reduced into Pow|der, their figure coming near tho&s;e of Saltpeter; that being put upon glowing Coals, they melt away to Water, and that in the quenching of them they make them cake together by a kind of Vitri|fication. They will further tell him, that the &s;ame Chry&s;tals being expo&s;ed to a moderate Heat, or to an Air &s;omewhat dry, lo&s;e pre&s;ently their from, and are reduced into a Powder almo&s;t impalpa|ble. By tho&s;e Gentlemen he &s;hall be in|formed, that our Salt is (much like Ca&s;hoo) bitter-&s;weet, that it ea&s;ily di&s;|&s;olves in the Water, that its Chry&s;tals are hard, compacted, and of the figure of Lozenges, that they never di&s;&s;olve in the Air nor yet in the Fire, that they nei|ther quench burning Coals nor make
<PB N="8" REF="7">them Cake; but on the contrary grow red-hot like Iron, and lo&s;e only their Tran&s;parence, without receiving any o|ther Alteration what&s;oever.</P>
<P>The aver&s;ion that People always had again&s;t Phy&s;ical Remedy's, but chiefly again&s;t Purges, has given us occa&s;ion to go about to correct the &s;ame, and to take off from them that unplea&s;ant Ta&s;t and dreadful Colour which daunts the &s;pirits of the &s;toute&s;t Men, and often deprives them from the benefit which might be got by tho&s;e Remedy's. To compa&s;s our De&s;ign, that which &s;eemed mo&s;t proper for it is the Matter of Salts; which is not only of the greate&s;t lati|tude, but withall includes in it &s;elf all the Virtue inherent in the Mixts, and contains in a &s;hort compa&s;s what is dif|fu&s;ed in other Body's. Therefore we made choice of three &s;orts of Salt, the be&s;t known to us, to compo&s;e a Reme|dy of many U&s;es in Phy&s;ick, and &s;uch as could be taken without any great caution. Which Remdey we named
<PB N="9" REF="7"><HI>Polychre&s;t,</HI> from a Greek Word that &s;ignify's a Thing of &s;everal U&s;es.</P>
<P>And indeed in the fir&s;t place it pur|ges, without irritation and pain, the gro&s;s Excrements and the mo&s;t vi&s;cous Hu|mours, &s;o that it may be &s;afely admini|&s;tred to the weake&s;t Per&s;ons, and to Women at any time of their Child|bearing, even when they have upon them tho&s;e griping Pains which are com|monly the fore-runners of a Labour. And, as it is &s;afe and proper to Women in that Condition before their Deli|verance, &s;o it is in their After-pains whil&s;t they ly in Child-bed.</P>
<P>Secondly, this <HI>Polychre&s;t</HI> is excellent to remove Ob&s;tructions in any part of the Body whatever, and likewi&s;e to correct the putrify'd Ma&s;s of the Blood, and re&s;tore it to its natural &s;tate. Which two Property's are of that great con&s;e|quence, that they &s;hould make the Re|ceipt &s;o much the more valuable; but they are Things the lea&s;t known, and therefore the lea&s;t regarded. For many People are prepo&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed, that a Phy&s;ick
<PB N="10" REF="8">don't work, and no Good is to be ex|pected from it, unle&s;s it works violently, and carry's off wth it a great deal of thick Matter; as if this were the only Way to ea&s;e Nature, and the Cure of all Di|&s;ea&s;es &s;hould depend upon tho&s;e Eva|cuations.</P>
<P>The&s;e Things being premi&s;ed, our De|&s;ign is now to propo&s;e a &s;hort and ea|&s;ie Method, that may &s;erve on the one &s;ide as a Guide and Direction for the &s;ick, and a Ground-plot on the other &s;ide for &s;uch as &s;hall be appointed to ad|mini&s;ter this phy&s;ical Remedy. In&s;o|much that it will be an ea&s;y matter for the&s;e, according to their In&s;ight and Experience in Phy&s;ick, to &s;tretch or va|ry it, as Occa&s;ion &s;hall &s;erve, having &s;till a regard to the differency of Di&s;tem|pers, and the &s;ymptoms that may happen. I have frobore to de&s;cend to Particulars, and that for the&s;e three Rea&s;ons. Fir&s;t, becau&s;e they may be ea&s;ily di&s;covered. Secondly, becau&s;e otherwi&s;e they may be left to the care and fidelity of the Patients Phy&s;ician. And thirdly, be|cau&s;e
<PB N="11" REF="8"><HI>Mr. Angibaud</HI> has &s;aved us the trouble of it by publi&s;hing our fore-men|tioned Treati&s;e, which I &s;uppo&s;e has been read by &s;everal.</P>
<P>Therefore it will be &s;ufficient to ob|&s;erve three principal Ways, in the U&s;e of our Polychre&s;t, according to the three Intentions one ought to have in the Cure of Di&s;ea&s;es. The fir&s;t is in order to Purge the gro&s;s Excrements, and all the filth that remains in the Ventricle. The &s;econd is, to allay and di&s;&s;olve the Hu|mors that ly &s;tagnant in the inward Parts, as the Liver, Spleen, Reins, Me&s;enterium, Pancreas, and the Womb. The third is, to make it circulate with the Blood, to correct and purify it when putrid, to &s;weeten it when it is come to be too &s;harp or acid, to make it fluid when too thick to dif|fu&s;e it &s;elf through all the Parts of the Body, or when it is &s;o active and violent as to run without giving any nouri&s;hment of Spirits want &s;till to be|ing wa&s;ted of Spirits want &s;till to be recruited. Now the&s;e are the Ways
<PB N="12" REF="9">called by the Phy&s;icians, <HI>Prima, Se|cunda, &amp; Tertia Via,</HI> this la&s;t being the remote&s;t of all.</P>
<P>The common Do&s;e of this Remedy to Purge the fir&s;t Way is &s;ix Drams, to be put in a Quart or three parts of a Quart of Water, or of any other Li|quour. But one may take a le&s;&s;er quan|tity both of the Powder and Liquour, according to the Age and Strength of the Patient. As for a Child one or two years of age, the fourth part of the Doze will be enough, being taken in four or five ounces of blood-warm Milk, and that in the &s;pace of five or &s;ix hours, one hour before and after it has &s;ucked. Half the Doze in a Pint of Water will be &s;uf|ficient for a Child five or &s;ix years old; which he may take at any time of the Day, provided it be &s;ome time before he eats, or after he has eaten. The two thirds of the Doze in three parts of a Quart of Water is proper for a Child ten or eleven years old. And la&s;tly, the whole Doze in a Quart or three parts of a Quart of Water, for any Per&s;on
<PB N="13" REF="9">fifteen years of Age, and all above that Age. As for &s;uch Per&s;ons who, by rea|&s;on of the weakne&s;s of their Stomach, cannot bear with &s;uch a quantity of Wa|ter, they may freely reduce it to a Pint, &s;teeping &s;ome Licori&s;h therein, to take off a bitteri&s;h kind of Ta&s;te which &s;ome Per&s;ons might be di&s;gu&s;ted at.</P>
<P>The mo&s;t proper Time to purge with this Remedy is in the Morning, fa&s;ting. But, in ca&s;e of Nece&s;&s;ity, it may be ta|ken at any time of the Day, except im|mediately after Meals. Two or three Hours after one has drunk the la&s;t Gla&s;s of the Doze, he may take &s;ome Veal or Mutton-broth.</P>
<P>In general 'tis to be ob&s;erved, that in all Di&s;ea&s;es contracted by an abundance of Humours, but e&s;pecially by vi&s;cous and melancholy Humours, &s;uch as hinder the Dige&s;tion and interrupt the cour&s;e of the animal Spirits (which is ob&s;ervable in a &s;ick Body, by a low intermittent Pul&s;e) the whole Doze mu&s;t be put in|to three parts of a Quart at the mo&s;t, or a Pint of Spring-water warmed, or el&s;e
<PB N="14" REF="10">in&s;tead of common Water, in &s;ome De|coctions of Roots, Barks, and Aromatical Herbs, the better to extenuate and di|vide that gro&s;s and vi&s;cous Humour. And becau&s;e it &s;ometimes falls out in &s;uch Di&s;ea&s;es, that the Patient brings up all the Doze, or &s;ome part of it, the Way to remedy that is to take again as much of the Do&s;e as is come up, thereby to open the Pa&s;&s;age to and precipitate the Humours. But, if the Patient continue to vomit (which happens but too often) then we make u&s;e of a purging Salt; and this we give either alone, or with the fourth part of the Doze of Polychre&s;t, in two Gla&s;&s;es of warm Water, or el&s;e in &s;ome cooling Broth. Which Salt do's evacuate much more than the Polychre&s;t, and is mo&s;t proper in this Exigence.</P>
<P>But in &s;uch Di&s;ea&s;es as proceed from the overflowing of the Choler, which rarifying or mingling it &s;elf with the other Humours, cau&s;es Fermentations in the Blood, and provokes Keckings and Vomitings, it is more proper to put the Doze of Polychre&s;t into a Quart or three
<PB N="15" REF="10">pints of Spring-water, and to drink it cold by degrees, one Gla&s;s full every Hour or Half-hour. But, if the Patient be under any great Pains, either of Cho|lick or Diarrhaea, he may take the Re|medy in the &s;ame quantity of Water ve|ry hot, and as is before &s;aid.</P>
<P>This Remedy does not only purge gently, but corrects al&s;o the Violence of all other Purges, if one put but one half or a fourth part of the Doze into their Infu&s;ion. It has al&s;o a &s;ingular Pro|perty, <HI>viz.</HI> to &s;top and appea&s;e the Vo|miting occa&s;ioned by the mo&s;t powerful Emeticks; which do not only give ter|rible Jerks to the Membranes of the Sto|mach, but leave commonly a bad Impre&s;|&s;ion, e&s;pecially upon a weak Stomach. To prevent which, put a third part, or one half of our Doze, into one half pint of cold Water, and take it half an Hour before the Emetick. And, if the Opera|tion of the Emetick be &s;uch as to cau&s;e too violent and con&s;tant a Vomiting, 'tis but taking the fourth part of the Doze into a great Gla&s;s of Water or warm De|coction.
<PB N="16" REF="11">The Vomit having done work|ing, there remains &s;till commonly &s;ome Di&s;po&s;ition to vomit, with a &s;wimming of the Head; and the long &s;tay either of Antimony, or of any other Emetick in the Stomack, is known to be of a dangerous Con&s;equence. Which to avoid, do but take one half or a third part of the Doze of Polychre&s;t in a great Gla&s;s of Water. The &s;ame will remove the pricking of the Sulphurs and the Salts of Antimony, and precipitate them with the Humours di&s;gorged into the Stomack by the low|er Parts, which is the mo&s;t natural Way.</P>
<P>The &s;econd Way is to remove the Ob|&s;tructions which are bred in the Liver, Spleen, and Me&s;enterium, in the Pancre|as, the Reins, the Bladder, and the Womb; from whence proceed a great number of long and &s;tubborn Di&s;ea&s;es, &s;uch as Rhumati&s;ms, heavine&s;s of the Head and Head-akes, Sleepine&s;s, Apo|plexy, Pal&s;y, Cachexy, Jaundice, the Drop&s;y either of the Brain or Brea&s;t, of the low Belly or the Womb, the A&s;thma, or &s;hortne&s;s of Breath, I&s;churies or re|tentions
<PB N="17" REF="11">of Urine, the Nephreticks, the Gout, and Sciatick. To which add di|ver&s;e other Di&s;ea&s;es, cau&s;ed by tho&s;e Ob|&s;tructions; which do not only ob&s;truct the Pa&s;&s;age of the Blood, but make it be&s;ides too &s;harp and too bracki&s;h. And of this Number I reckon Re&s;tle&s;ne&s;s, great Pains in the Head, Giddine&s;s, Phren&s;y, the Contractions of the Nerves, Convul|&s;ions, Inflammations of the Brea&s;t, Hy|&s;terical or Hypocondriacal Vapours, and the Scurvy.</P>
<P>In all which Di&s;ea&s;es, the chief end of this Remedy being to &s;eparate and ex|tenuate the thick and &s;tagnant Humours that lay in the narrowe&s;t Pa&s;&s;ages, and to give free pa&s;&s;age to the Blood, and to the motion of the Spirits, this following Method is to be ob&s;erved.</P>
<P>Fir&s;t of all, the Patient is to be pre|pared by a Purge with a Doze of the Polychre&s;t, in a pint or a pint and a half of River or Spring Water, to carry off by this means the cour&s;e&s;t Excrements, and to facilitate the di&s;tribution of the remedy through all the Parts of the
<PB N="18" REF="12">Body. After which, the very Night af|ter the Purge, he may put a Doze in a quart or three pints of Water, and take a great Gla&s;s of it three hours after Sup|per, and another the next day very ear|ly, that he may &s;leep upon it, and the re&s;t in the Day-time between Meals, con|tinuing the u&s;e of it during five or &s;ix Days more or le&s;s, according to the Na|ture of the Di&s;ea&s;e, and the Condition of the Di&s;ea&s;ed. Nay he may, if he plea|&s;es (which is our u&s;ual Method) forbear drinking of it between Meals, &s;o he takes a great Gla&s;s in the Night when he goes to Bed, and the re&s;t in the Morning fa&s;t|ing, in the compa&s;s of two or three Hours.</P>
<P>But for a greater ea&s;e to the Patient, and to follow the Indications that offer them&s;elves, it is proper enough to put the Remedy into different Liquours. So, when the Patient is of a bilious Temper, it may be put in Liquours made &s;owri&s;h with the Juice of Lemons, Goo&s;eberry's, or Barberry's, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> if he be of a moi&s;t or pituitous Temper, let it be put in Pti&s;anes,
<PB N="19" REF="12">or Decoctions, made with Roots, Barks, Leaves, or aromatical Flowers. And, if one would have the&s;e Liquors work by Stools rather than Urine, they mu&s;t be drunk very warm, walking abroad in the Air, or taking &s;ome other Exerci&s;e. But, if he had rather they &s;hould work by Urine than by Stools, he mu&s;t take it cold, and that by Intervals, keeping his Bed or his Chamber, and adding to his Doze a little Spirit of Sulphur or Vitriol. In&s;tead of Decoctions he may u&s;e River-water, which runs through the Body much quicker than Spring-water. The &s;ame will become mineral, and very &s;trong, if one put the fourth or third part of the Doze upon two Quarts to be drunk in the Morning, fa&s;ting, within the compa&s;s of two or three Hours, du|ring the fir&s;t five or &s;ix Days, dimini&s;h|ing afterwards the Doze of the Powder to the fourth part or &s;omething le&s;s up|on the &s;ame Quantity of Water. The u&s;e whereof mu&s;t be continued yet a while, according to the Patient's Di&s;temper.</P>
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<P>The Third and la&s;t Way of u&s;ing this phy&s;ical Remedy is in order to have it mingled with the Chylus and the Blood; that running by this means into the mo&s;t &s;ecret Conduits, it may qualifie and re|fre&s;h the too &s;harp and inflamed Choler, correct and dulcifie the other Juices too acid or too corroding, and re&s;tore the whole Ma&s;s of Blood to its true Con&s;i|&s;tence, and that bal&s;amick Quality it mu&s;t have to di&s;tribute to all Parts of the Body the Nouri&s;hment they want. To do this effectually, the two fir&s;t Ways mu&s;t be made u&s;e of, or el&s;e one mu&s;t be at lea&s;t &s;ufficiently purged. This be|ing done, put the third part of the Doze into a Quart of Water, or any other convenient Liquor, and take a Gla&s;s on't two hours after Suppper, and another in the Morning. Sleep upon it, if you can po&s;&s;ibly, and drink the re&s;t in the Day-time, an Hour before every Meal, and two or three Hours after. So the whole Doze will be taken in twenty four Hours, whereby the Patient &s;hall be brought to a good Temper, and find a
<PB N="21" REF="13">great deal of ea&s;e; his Water will come more freely, and his Belly will be loo&s;e|ned, without any other &s;en&s;ible Effect. If &s;o be the Patient is of a lean and dry Con&s;titution, or is wa&s;ted away by his long Di&s;temper, 'tis fit in &s;uch a Ca&s;e he &s;hould be bathed in a Room for &s;everal days together, or (if he be too weak) every other day. But the Water mu&s;t only be lukewarm, whereby to provoke an in&s;en&s;ible Tran&s;piration, or at the mo&s;t a little Moi&s;ture on the Skin. And, during the Bath, the Polychre&s;t &s;hall be u&s;ed ju&s;t as before, only the Patient &s;hall drink a Gla&s;s on't at his entring into the Bath, and &s;ome Gla&s;&s;es while he is in. Which Method is to be ob&s;erved in all Di&s;ea&s;es proceeding from the Corruption of the Blood; &s;uch as con&s;umptive, pu|trid, and hectick Fevers, quotidian, ter|tian, and double tertian Agues; al&s;o in all Venereal Di&s;ea&s;es, and all &s;uch as pro|ceed from an exceeding great Efferve&s;|cency or Irritation of Humours, as bloo|dy Fluxes, whether they proceed from the Brain, or from the Brea&s;t, from the
<PB N="22" REF="14">Stomach, or the Reins, from the Hae|morrhoids, or the Womb. But, if the Patient be fat, and of a moi&s;t Comple|xion, 'tis fit he &s;hould take &s;ome Exer|ci&s;e during this U&s;e of the Remedy, and a convenient Sweating will be very pro|per for him.</P>
<P>Thus you have in general the Chara|cter of this Remedy, and the Method to be u&s;ed for the Cure of the fore-menti|oned Di&s;ea&s;es. Tho&s;e that judge only of the Goodne&s;s of Phy&s;ick by the great quantity of Drugs, and that are u&s;ed to &s;eek their Ea&s;e in great Compo&s;itions (though their Virtue does commonly fall &s;hort of their &s;hew) will undoubted|ly look upon the Virtues we attribute to our Salt, as a Piece of Exaggeration. But we are fully per&s;waded on the other &s;ide, that tho&s;e who under&s;tand Phy&s;ick, being con&s;cious that the plaine&s;t Phy&s;icks are the be&s;t, will think well of our Re|medy; e&s;pecially if they do but examine the Nature of it, and con&s;ider the Vir|tues of Salts and mineral Waters, the Ef|fects whereof do oftentimes exceed the
<PB N="23" REF="14">Expectation both of tho&s;e that take them, and of tho&s;e that pre&s;cribe 'em.</P>
<P>What remains, before we conclude, is to acquaint you, that our Reflections and long Experience have taught us, that Polychre&s;t does not work upon all Occa|&s;ions alike, but that it operates be&s;t in ca&s;e of a Cholick, a Diarrhea, and Gripings in the Guts, in an over-flowing of the Choler, in hy&s;terical Suffocations and melancholy Vapours, and in the men|&s;trual Retentions. Upon the&s;e Occa&s;i|ons I may &s;ay that Polychre&s;t has &s;igna|lized it &s;elf, and has often exceeded our Expectations. And therefore, though from the Ground-plot we have already laid, one may gue&s;s what cour&s;e mu&s;t be taken in tho&s;e kind of Di&s;ea&s;es, yet for the publick Good we &s;hall inlarge a lit|tle upon it.</P>
<P>In ca&s;e of a bilious Cholick (which is ea&s;ily di&s;cerned by the Temper of the Per&s;on troubled therewith, by the Di&s;|ea&s;es he is &s;ubject to, &s;uch as burning Fe|vers and Light-headedne&s;s, by a bitter Ta&s;te in the Mouth, by a frequent di&s;|po&s;ition
<PB N="24" REF="15">to Vomiting, and by a yellow|i&s;h Complexion) let the whole Doze be put in a Quart of Spring-water, or thin Veal-broth, and let the Patient take it as hot as he can po&s;&s;ibly, in the &s;pace of an hour and a half or two hours. But, if the Pains continue, and the Belly don't grow loo&s;e, let him take another Doze either immediately after the fir&s;t Doze is drunk up, or el&s;e &s;ix or &s;even Hours after. And, during this Interval, let him take &s;ome good nouri&s;hing Broth.</P>
<P>For a pituitous Cholick (which is di&s;|cernable by the good Complexion of the Per&s;on which is troubled with it, by the frequent Waters that run out of his No&s;e and Mouth; and by the Rhumati&s;ms he is often affected with) let the whole Doze be put only in a Quart of aroma|tick Decoction, or (for want thereof) of plain Water, and let the Patient take it, in the &s;pace of an Hour or an Hour and a half at the mo&s;t, as hot as he can drink it. And, if that be not &s;ufficient, (as mo&s;t times it is not) let him take ano|ther Doze, Gla&s;s upon Gla&s;s, if he can
<PB N="25" REF="15">bear with it; or el&s;e an Interval may be allowed him, during which the Patient mu&s;t take good nouri&s;hing Broth.</P>
<P>As for a windy Cholick, common to pituitous and melancholy People, and ea&s;y to be di&s;cerned by the Ob&s;tructions of the Liver, Spleen, and Hypocondria, and by the Winds tho&s;e Per&s;ons make both upwards and downwards, by a con|&s;iderable &s;tretching of the Ventricle, by the grumbling noi&s;e and &s;welling of the Abdomen, by the bringing up of Nou|ri&s;hments and Remedies, by being bound, and by a clo&s;ing up of the Anus where|by the Injection of Cli&s;ters is often hin|dred; for this kind of Cholick, I &s;ay, let the whole Doze be put into a Quart of aromatick Decoction, adding to it &s;ome Flowers of Camomil and Claver, and let the Patient take it hot, one Gla&s;s full every quarter of an hour, or every half hour. At the &s;ame time let there be &s;ome Fomentations of Rue, Camomil, and Claver, be apply'd to the Part. And, whereas this is the mo&s;t malignant and ob&s;tinate of all the Cholicks, two or
<PB N="26" REF="16">three Dozes will be requi&s;ite, to be ta|ken quicker or &s;loower according to the Strength of the Patient.</P>
<P>This withall take along with you, that whatever Cholick it is, a&s;&s;oon as the vi|olent Pains are allay'd, it is ab&s;olutely nece&s;&s;ary by emollient or wind-expelling Cli&s;ters to carry off the Humours that are got into the Bowels, and to purge the Patient a&s;&s;oon as he &s;hall be in a con|dition to endure new Evacuations, le&s;t &s;ome leven &s;hould remain, which might di&s;order him again.</P>
<P>For a &s;imple Diarrhea, let the Pati|ent take half the Doze in a Quart of Decoction, either of Barley or Bran. But, if there be any thing of Bloud, let there be added to the Decoction &s;ome handfuls of red Ro&s;es, and of grains of Wall-wort very ripe, to be infus'd or boyl'd therein. The U&s;e of which mu&s;t be continued for the &s;pace of two or three Days, till the Humour be a little &s;weetned. After which, the Patient mu&s;t be purged with the whole Do&s;e, in a Quart of Water, or of the &s;ame Deco|ction.</P>
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<P>In ca&s;e of a <HI>Cholerd Morbus,</HI> where|by the Patient lies under a great mi&s;ery, fir&s;t an attempt mu&s;t be made to put a &s;top to his Vomiting by a Bo|lus of Treacle and Myrrh, with a grain or two of Laudanum. A&s;&s;oon as he has got &s;ome re&s;t, and hath recover'd &s;trength by &s;ome Yolks of Eggs, let him take by little and little, and from time to time, a Doze of the Powder in a Quart of Decoction, or warm Water. His Vomiting being &s;top'd, and the Cho|ler having cea&s;ed its fermentation, let him be purged with the whole Doze in a Quart of Water, to be taken in the &s;pace of an hour. Which mu&s;t be reite|rated as often as occa&s;ion &s;hall &s;erve, that nothing may remain either in the Stomach or Bowels, that may in time a|waken the Di&s;temper.</P>
<P>For hy&s;terical Suffocations and melan|choly Vapours, let half the Doze be put in a Quart of cold Water, to be taken in the &s;pace of two or three hours. But, if the Patient have lo&s;t his Sen&s;es, and be not in a condition to take it in that
<PB N="28" REF="17">manner, let &s;ome dry Powder be put into his Mouth, or let there be &s;o much of it di&s;&s;olv'd in &s;ome Water as he can take, which he &s;hall take by &s;poonfuls, till he comes to him&s;elf again. Then let him take the half Doze as afore&s;aid, and the next day let him be &s;ure to purge him&s;elf with a whole Doze in a Quart of cold Water. And, fora&s;umuch as tho&s;e &s;uffocating Fumes are only cau&s;ed by Ob&s;tructions and fuliginous Matters re|maining in the &s;mall Ve&s;&s;els, where they ferment from time to time, and make Ex|plo&s;ions as it were, it would not be im|proper to clean&s;e the Conduits, by ta|king it &s;everal Days together as an open|ing Remedy. This were the way to pre|vent their frequent returns, and to ex|tirpate the Evil which oftentimes is but palliated.</P>
<P>In ca&s;e the men&s;trual Blood be &s;top't, which often breeds the Jaundice, and is the common cau&s;e of hy&s;terical Vapours, the Polychre&s;t ought to be u&s;ed in the manner pre&s;cribed for all Ob&s;tructions in general. Only 'tis to be ob&s;erved, that
<PB N="29" REF="17">the Patient mu&s;t purge her &s;elf with it two or three days before the time her monthly flowers &s;hould come, that it may operate the better, and help Nature the more effectually in this kind of flow|ing. But, if this Evacuation be &s;uppre&s;|&s;ed long &s;ince, and that &s;everal Ways have been try'd to rectify it, the Poly|chre&s;t mu&s;t be u&s;ed with the &s;ame a&s;&s;i|duity, and as long as is u&s;ual with Mine|ral Waters. I mean, that one half or a fourth part of the Doze be put in a Quart of River or Spring Water, and two or three Quarts of the &s;ame be drunk up every morning, for the &s;pace of four or five Weeks.</P>
<P>Now this Remedy has in this Ca&s;e many Advantages over the mineral Wa|ters. As, among&s;t others, the Certainty of its Nature and Effects, which cannot be a&s;&s;erted of the Minerals which im|pregnate the mineral Springs. For, be|&s;ides that tho&s;e Minerals are not always certainly known, there happen &s;ometimes con&s;iderable Changes from Year to Year, by the Mixture and Concour&s;e of new
<PB N="30" REF="18" MS="y">Matters, whereby their Property is much altered. Moreover 'tis a certain Truth, that there is no danger of keeping long in the Stomach this great quantity of Water that is drunk; neither is it a &s;mall Conveniency and Satisfaction for one, that he can take this mineral artificial Water at all Times, and in all Places, 'Tis doubtle&s;s a great Conveniency for &s;uch Per&s;ons as are confined to a Place, either by their Calling, or for want of competent Means to tran&s;port them&s;elves to the Waters.</P>
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<P>THE <HI>Polychre&s;t</HI> of <HI>Me&s;&s;ieurs Seignette</HI> is &s;old by <HI>Mon&s;ieur Barbeau,</HI> in Pall-mall, at the Sign of <HI>Bourdeaux</HI> Town. Every Doze is made up in a Paper, with a Swan printed upon it, and this Motto <HI>Cum Sole &amp; Sale omnia fiunt.</HI> The Pa|per is &s;ealed up with a Seal, having the Name of <HI>Seignette</HI> in it.</P>
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