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 Second.

THe next Case which I design to relate, is a Cure very lately performed upon a Person of Quality at Paris.

On the 15th of September last I was sent for to Paris to visit a Person of Quality there; and tho I was somewhat averse to the thoughts of so tedious a Journey, and unwilling to leave my Patients here for so long a time, yet the urgent perswasi∣ons of a Person in England, whom I esteem and honour, to∣gether with the promise of a very considerable Reward, pre∣vailed with me to go: the Per∣son I went to was about five and thirty years of Age, a Man of a Melancholy Complexion, who had about two years ago been visited with a Quartan Ague, for which he made use of vari∣ous Remedies to no purpose, on∣ly now and then upon taking a good Quantity of the Pulvis Patrum or Jesuits Powder, he would miss three or four Fits, but it alwayes returned, and

that more violently than before; at last he being weary with tampering, resolved to let it have its Course; and take no∣thing more to prevent it: thus his Ague continued to afflict him every third day, till a full Year and a Quarter, from the time that it first accosted him, was expired, and then it went off of it self. But in this time his Juices were so vitiated and his Blood reduced to that degree of Sourness, that a worse Di∣stemper succeeds his Ague; for now Myriads of unwholesome Particles are accumulated in his Body, whole Troops of Malign Corpuscles are now con∣catenated and linkt toge••her in every Vein, Artery; and Nerve; whereby he became extreamly debilitated: and that which in∣deed much contributed to, and was no doubt one great occasion,

of this vitiated Crasis and habit of Body (besides his Ague) was his excess of drinking, which he had accustomed himself, to, both before and at the beginning of his Ague. He found now an ugly Cough encrease upon his Lungs, with a constant ••aintness and Decay of Spirits: and whereas he was wont to be chearful, and easie on his intermitting Days, during the Continuance of his Ague, he is now constantly uneasie; his Appetite to his Food is quite obtunded, and a sensible decay of flesh dayly atttends him; he was likewise Afflicted with a Loosness, which sometimes was very Immoderate, he made a∣bundance of Water, and had a Diabetes upon him for 10 Weeks before I came to him; he perceived himself very Hot, especially in an Evening, about the Hands and Feet. He spit

very much, which was some∣times yellowish and discoloured; he had frequent Sweatings, e∣specially towards Morning, which much wasted and debilitated him; these Sweatings were oc∣casioned by nothing but the strenous endeavours of Nature, to thrust forth (her Enemies) those Venemous Particles thro her Sluces the Pores of the Bo∣dy: so a Diabetes or Profuse Pissing, that often happens in this Distemper, is occasioned by Natures endeavour to expel those Morbific Particles thro her Fludgates the Reins; so likewise a Diarrhea or Loosness is the striving of Nature to wash them away by the Latex or Serum, and send them forth thro the Guts. He had made use of several Eminent Physicians of Paris, who had frequent Consul∣tations about him, but from all their

Remedies he obtained no Relief what they had exhibited I know not, he having nothing left by him but an Aromatic Electua∣ry and the Relicts of a Linctus of Oyl of Almonds, mixt with some Pectoral Syrup. In these Circumstances I found him lan∣guishing at his Countrey-House, whither he had retired for the benefit of the Air, tho he re∣ceived but small relief by it: I resolved to take what course I thought might be most speedy and expeditious for his Recove∣ry, the time I had to stay with him being very short, my busi∣ness at London in the mean time being neglected, and I having promised a sudden re∣turn to several Patients there. I therefore first prescribed him our Golden Tincture, of which I gave him once in twelve hours a considerable Dose in a

Glass of our Restorative Liquor I likewise gave him Four Doses of our Restorative Flesh-coloured Powder every day, and once in three days I ordered a Dose of our Red Powder for his Loosness; in five days his Sweat∣ings and Diabetes cease, in eight days his Looseness left him, and his Feaver vanquished; then instead of the Powders I prescribed two Doses of our Grand Elixir every day, and a Pint of a nourishing and strengthning Gelly (not of Trot∣ters or Calves Feet) every Morning: His constant Drink was our Red Liquor, and some∣times a Draught of Goats Milk was allowed him, his Strength now excreased, and his Appetite became sharp, his Blood and Juices were renewed, and laudible: After this I pre∣cribed a Balsamic Pectoral Es∣sence,

and an Aetherial Tin∣cture; all which Medicines an∣swered my Intentions exactly, and were exhibited with great∣er success than I ever expected: for in eight days after I came to him, he was very brisk and cheerful, finding himself in much ease; he went then with me in his Coach to the City of Paris, conveyed me to the University, where several In∣genuous Scholars expressed their joy at the hopes of his Recovery, and were every ami∣cable and courteous to me: from thence he conducted me to the House of a Nobleman, where several of his Friends and Relations met him, and were not a little elevated at the great presumption and strong confidence they had of his fu∣ture Health, seeing him in so fair a prospect: In three or four

days after this, he went with me from Paris to Versaile, and honoured me so far, as to shew me the Splendor and Glory of the Kings Palace. Some few days after this he was able to Hunt, and found himself more refresh'd than tired with the moderate Exercise of Riding. I had not been quite a Month with him, but he was to all apprearance perfectly recovered, having not one bad Symptome upon him; and since my re∣turn to London, by a Letter from his own hand I am inform∣ed of the continuance of his Health. Thus I have briefly related this Case, and the rea∣son why I inserted it in this place, there being several o ther Cures hereafter mention'd which in the order of time pre∣ceded this, is because this came more fresh to my Memo∣ry

while scribling; neither is it a matter of any moment, to be so unnecessarily curious or ex∣actly methodic, as to pen these Cures down in that Order which they were performed in.