A most certaine and true relation of a strange monster or serpent found in the left ventricle of the heart of Iohn Pennant, Gentleman, of the age of 21. yeares. By Edward May Doctor of Philosophy and Physick, and professor elect of them, in the colledge of the academy of noble-men, called the Musæum Minervæ: physitian also extraordinary unto her most Sacred Majesty, Queene of great Brittany, &c.

§. 9. (Book 9)

IT remaines onely that something be said of the cure of such Conceptions if by any Physitian they be perceived in time: Either by pulsation of the heart or by any externall signe or signature, or Syn∣drome.

There are some who use no alterants nor o∣ther peice of art then to kill and dissolve such conceptions: and they confide in this. ℞. Succi Allij, Nasturtij, Raphani, ana. ʒ.j. detur & statim curabitur. So Schenckins from Stockerus. Others thus. ℞. Tanaceti ramulum in umbra siccatum, in pulverem redactum cribella∣tum{que}, cui addatur pulvis sequens, ℞. Rad gen∣tian. Rad. Paeoniae longae, ana. ʒ.j. Myrrhae, ʒ.ss. misce, tere & cum uti volueris. ℞. ℈.j. Et cum guttula aquae ut solum madefiat misce, deinde inunge os & lahra infantis aut patientis ter aut quater, & una cum caeteris medicamen∣tis eijcientur. So Schenckins. This I grant is good for wormes that cause Epileptike fits in children, but for such as lie deeper in the pericardium and the left Ventricle, it is not likely they will be sensible of, at so great a di∣stance and inclosure: I rather thinke that the use of some oyles which are more penetrative, may do more good, as some drops of Olei de Sabina in aqua juventutis, Raimundi or Olei ex Baccis Iuniperi ob ejus penetrativam virtu∣tem

may with some continuance or with the successe before mentioned be more effica∣cious: But why am I so large speaking to you? But to lay some grounds of future dis∣courses with you, concerning both preservati∣on and cure of such latent maladies, rather then here to set them out.