Some observations made upon the serpent stones imported from India shewing their admirable virtues in curing malignant spotted feavers / written by a countrey physitian to Dr. Burwell, president of the Colledge of Physitians in London. Peachi, John, fl. 1683. 1694 Approx. 5 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 5 1-bit group-IV TIFF page images. Text Creation Partnership, Ann Arbor, MI ; Oxford (UK) : 2007-10 (EEBO-TCP Phase 1). A56773 Wing P939 ESTC R27609 09981322 ocm 09981322 44440 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 Serpent Stones , SHEWING Their Admirable Virtues in Curing Malignant Spotted Feavers . In a LETTER , &c. SIR , I Received your Letter of Thanks for the last Specifick I communicated to you , and that hath proved so successful , that I find you very importunate with me to acquaint you with what I have found most effectual against Malignant Spotted Feavors . I am sorry to hear that London Physitians are so often disappointed in the use of vulgar Medicines . The great Dr. Sidenham in his Discourse of Feavors , tells the World his Art is defective in that Distemper ; and that if any Man can be found who can propose a better Method , or Communicate a good Specifick , for the more effectual Cure of that Distemper which carryeth so many thousand to their Graves , he will prove himself a good Citizen . For my own part I declare , I knew no better Remedy than the Indian Serpent Stones , for it powerfully expels Poysons of all sorts , both externally and internally applyed , it resists Putrefaction , promotes insensible transpiration , raiseth the Vital Spirits , comforts the Heart , and gives a new Fermentation to the Blood , and helps Nature to cast off all Malignity . I have found it more serviceable than any sort of Alexipharmics . Mr. Boyl in his Discourse of Specifick Remedies , gives very strange Accounts of the Extraordinary Virtues of these Stoney Concretions , said to be found in the Heads of Indian Serpents , and particularly of an Experiment he made himself upon a Cat bitten by an enraged Viper , which caused its Tongue and Head to swell , and made the Cat raving mad , yet upon giving it a little of the Powder of this Stone inwardly , it had recovered , had not the rude People killed it by Violence . He confesseth that there are many of them Counterfeits , and such were those that Mounsieur Redi made Experiments upon . He also tells us , that an Eminent Physitian of the Colledge performed a very great Cure by the External Application of one of the Stones . I was sent for unto a young Man who had a very dangerous Feavor , and all the Symptoms of Malignity very well known to Physitians ; I gave the usual Remedies prescribed in that Case ; his Distemper threaten'd every Day more and more , and all Friends despaired of Recovery ; at length I gave him a Tincture drawn out of these Stones , with the Powder in substance , and it powerfully expels all the Malignity by gentle breathing Sweats , and the Patient speedily recovered , and gained his Strength beyond Humane Expectation . An Ancient Gentlewoman who had a high Malignant Feavor , being first surprized with a Rigor , and shivering Coldness in her Back , and afterwards a hot burning Fit , which lasted many Hours without any intermission , a low weak Pulse , cold , clammy , faint Sweats , Purple Spots in the Skin , little or no Thirst , a pale thin Urine , and very delirous , but no Complaint of any Pains in the Head , or other parts ; a Hitch-cough , frequent Sighing and Dozeing ; I finding all Remedies fruitless , gave this Specifick , and found a speedy Recovery attend it . I could tell you of several Familes in our Countrey that have been seized with these Malignant Feavors , that have been secured from the Dangers , by the Use of this Specifick Remedy : But I find People generally displeased when Physitians mention their Names in print , if it be in English ; they are prone to suspect the World never thinks them sound afterwards , and therefore I omit Names . I knew one Man about Fifty , who was seized as if he had been infected with the Plague , had Swellings under his Arms , and all other Pestilential symptoms upon him ; and only giving him a few Drops of a Mixture made with the Powder of this Stone , he was restoared to Health in a miraculous manner . I could Name one Patient who was saved from Death , when two in the same Family dyed of the Spotted Feaver , after they had taken large Quantities of Bezoar and Goa Stones . I can truly say with Dr. Sidenham , in his Discourse of Pestilential Feavors , that I have delivered faithfully all things relating to Practice , and never proposed any thing but what I had often and sufficiently tryed ; and when I come to Dye , I hope I shall have a chearful Witness within my own Breast I have done my Duty . FINIS .