Some observations made upon the Barbado seeds shewing their admirable virtue in curing dropsies / written by a physitian in the countrey to Sir George Ent at London. Peachi, John, fl. 1683. 1694 Approx. 5 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 4 1-bit group-IV TIFF page images. Text Creation Partnership, Ann Arbor, MI ; Oxford (UK) : 2007-01 (EEBO-TCP Phase 1). A56757 Wing P928 ESTC R27599 09981116 ocm 09981116 44430 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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SOME OBSERVATIONS Made upon the Barbado Seeds , SHEWING Their Admirable Virtue in Curing Dropsies . In a LETTER , &c. SIR , ACcording to your Desire , I have made many Experiments with the Barbado Seeds you sent me , and I find them wonderful serviceable against Dropsies ; they open the Sluces of Nature , and let the watery Humours run away both by Seige and Urine , and that in a very plentiful manner , with very little disturbance to Nature . If you have any more Indian Specificks , I pray send them into the Countrey , and I will make Observations upon them , and I hope with as good Success ; for by this Method the Art of Physick is likely to be much improved , and in time we may be able to Answer the Lord Bacon's Desire , viz. to write a History of the Cures of Diseases thought to be incurable . I was lately sent for six Miles from my own House to a Countrey Farmer , who was miserably swelled by the Dropsie , not only his Belly , but his Leggs and whole Habit of Body ; I had given him many Medicines , but I found that his stubborn Disease would not give way , and at length trying your Specifick in several forms , I perceived a plentiful Evacuation of Water by Seige and Urine , he is become very lank , and his Colour begins to return , and I hope by the Use of good Volatile Salts and bitter Medicines to restore the ferments to the several parts , and prevent the danger of a Relapse . Another Person who was a Servant , was so exceedingly swelled , that his Friends had all concluded that he must be tapp'd , but having heard of the former Cure , came ten Miles to my House , being brought in his Master's Coach ; I used the same Method , and in due time Cured him . I must needs own , as Mr. Boyle saith , that the Theories of divers Diseases are so hotly disputed amongst many Eminent Physitians , that in many Cases a Man may discern more probability of the Success of the Remedy , than of the Truth of the received Notion of the Disease . And as the Controverted Methods are not to this Day agreed on , nor establisht in the Schools themselves , so divers who are not acquainted with the Schools , do by the help of Experience and good Specificks , and the Method their mother Wit and other Emergency prompts them to take , do very great and extraordinary Cures ; the Causes of Diseases are much less certain , and much more disputed than the Uninquisitive imagine : Nor are the Methods of Curing , which depends upon those Causes , settled as they should be ; and therefore he fears that the generality of Physitians have but an imperfect Method in the Cure of many Diseases ; and therefore he observes that the Communicating some good Medicines in an unpolished manner , though they may disparage an Author , yet they may save the Life of a Patient . These Considerations have encouraged me to communicate my Observations of this Nature , which may a little gratifie the inquisitive part of Mankind , until the Learned Dr. Sloan , from whom we expect considerable Informations , gives us a more compleat Account of American Rarities , and their Medicinal Opperations . This I must say , that after universal Evacuations by Purging , Vomitting , Sweating , which ought to be left to the Prudence of able and experienced Physitians : I have ever found Specifick Allerative Remedies wonderful Advantagious . Many Persons of different Ages and Sexes have been Cured of Dropsies by these Seeds , taking only the Spirit , the Tincture , and the Extract of the same , sometimes in Broom-Beer , and sometimes in Rhenish-Wine , only observing an agreeable Dyet , and enduring Thirst as much as may be . FINIS .