Some observations made upon the banellas imported from the Indies shewing their wonderful virtues in curing melancholly and distraction / written by a physitian in the countrey to Dr. Allen, one of the Royal Society at London. Peachi, John, fl. 1683. 1694 Approx. 6 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 5 1-bit group-IV TIFF page images. Text Creation Partnership, Ann Arbor, MI ; Oxford (UK) : 2007-01 (EEBO-TCP Phase 1). A56756 Wing P927 ESTC R27598 09981088 ocm 09981088 44429 This keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership. This Phase I text is available for reuse, according to the terms of Creative Commons 0 1.0 Universal . The text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. 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LONDON , Printed in the Year 1694. SOME OBSERVATIONS Made upon the Banellas , SHEWING Their Wonderful Virtues in Curing Melancholly and Distraction . SIR , I Have a Friend at London , whose Son is under your Care for the Cure of his Melancholly : I am glad he is under the Management of so Experienced a Physitian . I hear you have Blooded him several times , and shaved his Head , and Blistered him , and given him many Purges , which I believe are very proper : I beg leave to recommend an Admirable Specifick in this Distemper , and that is the Banella's which come to us from the Indies , a Tincture , Spirit and Extract drawn out of them are of excellent Use in this young Man's Case . They have been often tryed , and found serviceable , when other Means and Methods have failed : They wonderfully chear the Heart , and relieve the Animal Spirits , when oppress'd with Hypocondriacal Fumes from the Spleen . They refine the Blood , and clear the Brain , and disperse Melancholly Winds and black Humours , which if let alone would end in distraction . A Minister about Fifty Years of Age , a Grave , Serious and Devout Man , who fell into profound Melancholly , occasion'd by hard Study and deep thoughts about the Prophetical part of Scripture , relating unto the future State of the Church . He could remember whole Nights wherein he had not slept , and whole Weeks wherein he had not Dined : He had been let Blood several times in the Jugular Veins with a Lancet , and in the Hemorroide Veins with Leaches ; his Head shaved , and Anointed with Cephalick Oyls ; he had been Vomitted and Purged very often , and taken Mineral Waters , but all in vain ; at length I gave him the Banella Mixture in Whey for one Month , and he is perfectly Recover'd , and Preaches very judiciously and vigorously , to the great Satisfaction of his Auditory . A young Gentlewoman who had a very great Respect for a Person whom her Relations had no good Opinion of , being unwilling to Disoblige her Friends , and yet desirous to comply with her own Inclinations , she fell into great Melancholly , and that sower'd her Blood , and caused Obstructions , and altered the whole Habit of the Body , and brought her into a Consumptive languishing Condition : Much Advice was taken for her , and many Methods prescribed by Learned Physitians , at length she was told of this Specifick Mixture , and took it three Months together in Spaw-Waters , and sometimes in Purging Waters , and she is now in a good State of Health of Body , and enjoys great Tranquility of Mind . A Gentleman of a tender Mind and Religious Disposition , upon the Breach of a Vow and Scruples of Conscience , was attended with great Melancholly , which at length degenerated into a Maniacal Distemper of the Brain , wherein the Spiritous Parts of the Nervous Juice being debased , and the Saline parts exalted , and brought to a Fluor , which which being mixed with Sulpherous Particles , derived from feculent Blood , at length produced delirous Phantasms and depraved Imaginations , which perverted his Understanding , and qualified him for Bedlam every Full Moon ; and indeed which made him the more subject to Relapses into his Distemper , was its being somewhat Hereditary on the Mothers side ; yet notwithstanding this frequent returns , and great Rage and Disorder of the Animal Spirits , this Person was Cured by the use of the Mixture , and now continues cloathed in his right Mind , to the Praise of the Omnipotent Physitian . An Ancient Gentlewoman , whose Husband fell into a Decay in his Estate , was much disappointed thereby , and hereby her Mind much disturbed , which totter'd her Understanding , which at some certain times put her upon very unseemly extravagant Actions and Discourses , very disagreeable unto her former Pious ane Prudent Behaviour , to the great Grief of her Children , and other Relations . Much Advise was taken , and all to no purpose ; at length I resolved to give her the Specifick Mixture of the Spirit , Tincture and Extract drawn out of the Banellas Bean ; for its shape it resembles a French Bean , and contains a Seed as that doth , and was much used in Chocolate , but being dear , is frequently left out of late , as the Makers of it tell us . I gave this Gentlewoman Morning , Noon and Night 30 Drops of this Mixture at a time , she took it in small Beer six Months , and thro' God's Mercy it brought her to the free Exercise of her Reason . I could give many more Examples if it were needfull . FINIS .