The true method of curing consumptions wherein 1. The vulgar method is discovered to be useless and pernicious, 2. A new method, by safe, pleasant, and effectual remedies is describ'd, 3. The original and immediate cause of this distemper explain'd, and 4. Several remarkable observations on persons lately cured by the same method, related, particularly the case of Mr. Obrian, whom the author undertook by his Majesties command : with an account of a cure performed on a person of quality at Paris, and several others / by Samuel Haworth.

Observation the Fourteenth.

AT Tradesman in Southwark, about Thirty years of Age of a very Melancholic Tempera∣ment; fell into a Marasmus, which was occasioned not by any intemperance or disorder in living, his converse having always been among sober Per∣sons, and his course of life ve∣ry moderate; but as it may pro∣bably be conjectured by some particular passages and circum∣stances which I observed (by reason of which I forbear to mention his Name) this Malady was occasioned by some Men∣tal Dolour, by reason of Crosses; it being most certain and ob∣servable that great Intenseness of Mind arising from perplexing Cares, are very prejudicial to the

Sanity of Mans Body: He was much fallen away in his Flesh, troubled with great Sweatings and Weakness in his Limbs, tho he had little or no Cough; his Appetite to Food as well as his Strength and Flesh, was daily diminished: He first advised with an ancient Physician in London, whose method and inten∣tions to recover him I will not censure, neither will I condemn the Medicines he ordered him as ineffectual, yet so it hapned, that after he had continued some time under his hands, he re∣solved to leave this Physician and consult me; whom when I saw in the Condition above de∣scribed, I advise ••o take Lodg∣ings at Kensington, where by the constant use of our Restora∣tive Liquor and our Flesh-co∣loured Powder, he recovered in one Month, and returned

to his own House in a compe∣tent measure of Health; ha∣ving acquired much Strength; and a very keen Appetite: his Faintness and Sweatings quite ceasing.