The Introduchion. CXXiX 
Pe 
One Mountague, a Shoemaker, aged forty five, complain’d of a Of an op- 
great oppreflion at his Stomach. { gave him Infuf. croci Metal. an Picton ac 
the Sto-~ 
Ounce, and Syr. Cariophyll. Q. S. ad gratiam. He took it, it wrought mach, 
very well upwards and downwards, and he was cured. 
I was fent forto a Servant of about Twenty years of Age. His 
Miltrefs had given him a Vomic of an Infuf. Croc. Metal. It had on Pad 
wrought himupwards and downwards, till he was feized with f eee 
the Cramp, and violent painsin his Hands and Feer. He was in a tion’d by 
cold Sweat, and his Pulfe faint. The Miftrefs, for her vindication, in ta 
ordered her Servant to fhow me how much fhe had given, who Crocus Me- 
pour’d che Infufion out muddy. I perceiv’d the caufe of the Super. *//r#™. 
Purgation to come from the Powder, or the fubftance of the Crocus 
Metallorum, having been taken inftead of the clear Infufion. I or- 
der’d him burnt Wine, and defign’d to have given him an Opiat, but 
he was well without it. ‘ 
Mr. Thomas Rowe, about Forty fave years of age, fent for me in 
Feb. 1688. 1 was told he had the Belly-ach. He complain’d very 
much of a great oppreffion at his Stomach, and of a load there, he 
vomited every thing he took, whether Liquids or Solids, had a pale 
yellow look, and the whites of his Eyes were yellow, he had been 
fick a month, I concluded it to be the Jaundice in a great meafure, Of an op- 
and gave him about fifteen Grains of Pil. Coch. Mim. made into two Peres Si 
Pills, to try whether by that means the Stomach might not bé mach and 
emptied of its Load, an irritation at the fame time made in che Guts Vomiting. 
to folicice the excrements downwards, contrary to that motion in him 
from the Stomach upwards, which was preternatural. Immediately 
the Pillscameup. I therefore ordered him next morning to have 
thin Watergruel ready to work off a Vomit eafily, which according- 
ly was done very early, becaufe of the heat. His Vomit was Infu/. 
Croc. Metal. Six Drams, Syr. Cariophyl.2.S. ad gratum faporem. This 
wrought very well, firft upwards, then downwards, and he found 
himfelf very much reliev’d and eas'd. I follow’d the ftroak, and 
gave him next morning Fifteen Grains of Pil. Coch. Min. in two Pills, 
they wrought him pretty feverely, but he found himfelf reliev'd of 
all his Difeafes except weaknefs. I wifh’d him to get this off by 
taking an exact care of his Diet, that it were eafie of Digeftion and 
pleafant to his Palate, and that he fhould very carefully avoid taking 
away any Blood or making ule of Phyfick till further occafion, 
Mr, Ridley a Painter, fent for me, he complain’d of great pains 
in all his Mufcles and Flefh, he look’d very ill, and was yellow, 
(kk) efpectally 
