Of Pains that are wont to trouble the Legs, and sometimes the other Limbs, and that chiefly by Night.
AGainst these Pains, in regard that sometimes they are very vehement, besides the general method of Curing the Scurvy, special Remedies, and such as obviate that symptom are Indica∣ted; therefore in such a case, a course of purging being well ordered, also the Person being Blooded (if need be) we ought to set upon the Disease both with inward Physick, and outward Topicks.
As to the former, such things as promote Sweat, and also an evacuation by Urine often give help, in as much as they draw another way the lixivial and sharpish Recrements of the Blood and nervous Juice, that are wont to be gather'd together in the Part affected; but especially let those things be given which free both Humours from their evil Disposition, viz. both saline and sharpish: Powders of Shells, Crabs Eyes, the Jaw-bone of a Pike, also the Spirit and Flowers of Sal Armoniack, Spirit of Blood, Tincture of Antimony, of Coral; Decoctions of the Roots and Seeds of the great Burdock, Ground-pine, and Germander do excellently well; and let those kinds of Remedies be taken twice or thrice a day with Antiscor∣butick distill'd Waters. A Water distill'd from Horse-dung with the addition of Scurvy-grass, Brook-limes, Ground-pine, and the like, is sometimes very profitable; mean while let Fomentations, Liniments, Cataplasms, or applications of other kinds, which appease Pains, be outwardly Administred.