Some observations made upon the Bengala bean imported from the Indies shewing its admirable virtues in curing all sorts of hemorrages, and particularly spitting of blood / written by a doctor of physick in the countrey to one of his patients in 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). A56758 Wing P929 ESTC R27600 09981141 ocm 09981141 44431 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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Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements). Keying and markup guidelines are available at the Text Creation Partnership web site . eng Hemorrhage -- Early works to 1800. Therapeutics -- Early works to 1800. 2006-03 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2006-05 SPi Global Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2006-06 Mona Logarbo Sampled and proofread 2006-06 Mona Logarbo Text and markup reviewed and edited 2006-09 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion SOME OBSERVATIONS Made upon the Bengala Bean , Imported from the INDIES : SHEWING Its Admirable VIRTUES In CURING All sorts of Hemorrages , and particularly Spitting of Blood. Written by a Doctor of Physick in the Countrey to one of his Patients in London . Printed in the Year 1694. SOME OBSERVATIONS Made upon the Bengala Bean , IMPORTED FROM The INDIES : In a LETTER , &c. SIR , IEceived yours , wherein you give me an Account of your dangerous Disaster , which greatly threatens your Life , viz. your frequent Spitting of Blood , proceeding from the Acrimony of that Vital Liquor . Long and frequent Evacuations of that Kind must of necessity spend the Spirits , weaken Nature , and shorten Life : I therefore recommend to you a most Excellent Specifick in your Distemper , viz. the Bengala Bean ; which is of a healing Balsamick Nature , moderately Stiptick , of a very temperate Quality , and affords an excellent Soder to the Veins and Arteries , where any breach is made on them by the Defluxions of a sharp corroding Humour : It mitigates the Acidity of all salt Rhumes which invade the Lungs , and threaten a Consumption . It checks the Violence of Coughing , and easeth pains in the Breast , it rarely Thickens and incrassates the Blood , and gives it a good Consistence , whereby it prevents all sorts of Hemorrages of Blood. Dr. Smith , the Author of the Book called Solomon's Pourtraicture of Old Age , tells of a young Virgin , a Patient of his , who Dyed in twenty four hours Space , of a Violent Flux of Blood , from all parts of her Body ; as Nose , Ears , Eyes , Mouth , &c. Had he been so happy as to have known this Remedy , I don't know but he might have saved her , with God Almighty's blessing . We cannot now Apply our selves in our Issues of blood , to so Happy a remedy as the Hem of our Saviours Garment , and therefore must make use of the Best means we can , and be thankful if we find Relief by any . I could tell you a strange Story of a young Gentleman who was troubled with a Hemoptosie , or spitting of Blood for many Weeks , so that he Despair'd of Life . He had open'd a Vein Twice , had used all the Common Forms of Medicines , as Frictions , Ligatures , Fomentations , Gentle Purgatives , and what else could be thought on by the ablest Physicians ; but nothing could cure the Rupture of the Vessels about the Lungs , untill he applyed himself unto the Drops drawn out of this Balsamick Bean , and drinking them sometimes in Cows Milk , and sometimes in Asses and Goats Milk , was wonderderfully Cured . I knew a Learned Divine , who straining his Voice in Preaching , had broke a Vein in his Lungs ; and after the use of many Prescriptions , which proved insignificant , he at length used these vulnerary Drops in Wine and Water , and he experienced a mighty advantage thereby , to the Immortal Praise of the Great Physician above . A Labouring Man about Forty years of Age , who fell from the Top of a House , and bruised his Breast , which occasioned Spitting of Blood : I gave him these Drops in Mead seven days , and all his pains abated , and he Spit no more Blood , nor felt any more pain . A Child about Twelve Years of Age , being troubled with a violent Cough , which caused him to Spit and Vomit Blood , a great Quantity , after he had taken many Fantastical Medicines , as Fryed Mice , John and Jones Bread , sate with his Naked Buttocks upon a Bears Back , and been Toss'd seven or nine times over a Bramble-Bush , &c. at last he took these Drops in Claret-Wine and Water , and was cured of his Chin-cough , his Whooping ceased , and his Spitting went off . An elderly Person , who was continually bleeding at the Nose , and other parts , was wonderfully rescued from the Jaws of Death , by the use of these Drops in Milk and Water . FINIS .