An ESSAY on External Appended Remedies. Occasioned by the very great Increase of late Years in the BILLS of MORTALITY, which plainly shew, that in and about London only, Above 12000 Children yearly Die of their TEETH, and Convulsions and Feavers caused thereby: Also that great Numbers of Women are lost in, Childbed: And Multitudes of Persons Die of Distempers of the Head. In this ESSAY therefore clearly prove from the Principles of the new Phylosophy, that by the wearing only of a certain Anodyne. NECKLACE Approved of and Recommended to the World by Dr. Cham- berlaine, Children will easily Breed. and presently Cut their TEETH without any Pain, Convulsions or Feaver at all: Women in Labour be Easily, Presently and Safely Delivered: And most Distempers of the Head Cured, with- out ever taking in any thing at the Mouth. To which is added An Account of a New Discovery in the Way of Writing, being entirely a New Invention, never ’till now found out, by which Any Person may WRITE AS FAST AS Any one can SPEAK. Whereas by the vulgar Method of Writing now in use, and at present Taught in all the Schools in Europe, Learning and Business goes on very slow and tedious: But by this New Method, as quick a Dispatch will be made In a few Minutes, as u- sually is in several Days. Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas. Virg. Dedicated to Dr. CHAMBERLAINE, and the ROYAL SOCIETY. The Sixth EDITION. Entered in the HALL-BOOK. This Book is GIVEN GRATIS to ANY Person that will but ask for it, up One pair of Stairs, at the Sign of the Sugar-Loaf a Confectioners Shop, over against Old Round Court near the Neva Exchange in the Strand. Note, There is a Person ALWAYS ready up One pair of Stairs, to GIVE these Books away. London: Printed by H. Parker, at the Bible in Goswell-Street, 1716 [2] To the Worthy Dr. Chamberlaine, Honoured Sir. You having been pleased on the 26th of Nov. 1715. to order me to let the World know expressly from YOU and in YOUR NAME, that you entirely Approve of, and Advise the Wearing of the hereafter mention'd NECKLACE, To all Chil- dren for the Easy Breeding, and Cutting of their Teeth: To all Women in Labour: And to all Persons who have any Ail- ment in any part belonging to their Head: declaring to me at the same time that You heartily wished that all such would wear it, You being entirely convinced of it's Wonderful and Suprizing Anodyne Vir- tues, from a long experience which You was pleased to own to me that You had had of the very same matter of which this Necklace is made, Acknowledging to me that You Your self had used it for many Years, and always with success, for these just now mention'd ends: I most willingly lay hold of this occasion to inform the World of the va- lue and esteem You are pleased to have for it. To the most Illustrious The Royal Society. 'Tis a common Question propos'd by Philosophers, Whether or no there be any such Thing In Nature as ACTIO IN DISTANS? That is, Whether or no a Cause can produce an Ef- fect on a Subject whose Substance and Body is not contiguous to it, but at some distance off? The Ancients being forced by the undeniable Matter of Fact of the Thing in a great many Phenomena's, to solve this intricate Question, had recourse to as intricate Answers, and said it was done by certain Occult and hidden Qualities, which they called by the obscure Names of Sympathy and Antipathy.— Some more modern Authors not well content with these Terms, attri- buted these Effects to Superstition, Charms, and Magick: Because not seeing any gross and visible connexion between the Cause and the Ef- fect, they presently asserted that there was none at all. Now this argues a great Ignorance in the Understanding, so to confine all the Actions of Nature to the grossness of our Senses, as to imagine Su- perstition presently, before we have sufficiently examined the true Causes and Principles upon which our Judgments ought to depend: Whereas according to true Philosophy there is no Superstition at all in these Effects, as hereafter shall clearly be shewed, unless Superstitious Persons themselves create it, by attributing the Effects to other Causes than the true ones; and this from their Ignorance, which makes them rather condemn Mysterious Truths than examin them: Of whom 'tis truly said, Ars nullum habet inimicum nisi ignorantem. As for the Terms Sympathy and Antipathy, I'll not here quarrel with them, provided they include a Natural Connexion be- tween the Cause and the Effect (the only Characteristick mark to di- stinguish Natural Causes from Charms, Magick, Superstition, and o- ther such unlawful ways of Cure.) For which reason, together with Mr. Boyle, and Sir Kenelm Digby, I understand those Things on- ly to act by Sympathy and Antipathy, which by a mutual Efflux of [3] Atoms and subtle Effluvia's, do so act and re-act on each other, as to have a reciprocal Communication for each other's mutual Preser- vation or Destrucition. So that notwithstanding some Persons may despise this way of Cure, as an Unlikely one, yet in consideration of those reputable Authors that assure us of their having been Eye-wit- nesses to these first of Cures, the Method ought rather farther to be examined into (in order to its improvement), than despised: For which reason the great Dr. Harvey, as rigid a Naturalist as he was, frequently tried this way of Curing; and as Mr. Boyle tells us, often cured Tumours and Swellings, by stroaking them with the Hand of a Dead Man; which every one will grant to be a Sympathetick Cure. Nor (as the same Sir. Boyle says) does the great Objection a- gainst these sorts of Cures, viz. that such or such a Person having ONCE made trial of them, found them by chance not to succeed, seem alone of Weight enough altogether to reject them; because if they do Most commonly succeed, tho' sometimes they may chance to fail, yet that Probability of their succeeding, is a sufficient Motive to any one for a Trial; because if they do not succeed, they CAN do no hurt, Nihil, therefore rentare nocebit. But when all's done, there can no Argument be brought for the trial of this Necklace, so great and convincing as the Matter of Fact will be when ’tis once worn (Matter of Fact being the most convincing Argu- ment of a Thing's being that can be); to wit, that by Hanging it only about a Child's Neck, those Teeth shall in a Night's time easily and plea- santly Cut, which before nothing but an Incision-Knife cou’d bring out, and thereby prevent and Cure Fevers, Fits, Gonvulsions, &c. And save many a Childs Life. Besides several other its wonderful effects; as on Women in Labour: On Sore, Weak, and Red Eyes, Tooth-ache, Head-ache, Vapours, Sore Throats, Hoarseness, Cramps, Fits, Convulsi ons, Palsies, Fallings Sickness, Apoplexies, Hardness & Difficulty of Hear- ing, &c. of which more at large hereafter in the sequel of this Essay. Chap. I. Of Sympathetick and Appended Remedies. IN order to explicate more clearly the Effect of Appended Remedies, we must here first establish One universal Law of Nature, settled by that great Philosopher Sir Isaac Newton as an Essential Requisite to all those Actions which proceed from Causes at a Distance from the Subjects on which they produce their Effects: and which must necessarily be premised to the following Essay; which is this: That out of the Pores of all bodes whatsoever, tho' never so hard and solid, there is more or less a constant Effluvium and Exhalation of subtle Steams and Atoms. The truth of which (to use no other example) ap- pears from nothing in the whole World so clear, manifest and evident, as the sence of Smelling; by which every one daily experiences at a Distance, Bodies to emit and send forth more or less vast quantities of these just now mentioned [4] Steams, Atoms, and Effluvias. This Law of Nature being thus established, all those Distant Effects usually attributed to Sympathetick and Appended Reme- dies, will appear entirely evident and demonstrable. Appended Remedies therefore are those, which without ever en- tering into the Stomach, or any immediate Application to the ailing Part, but in a manner at some Distance from it, cure Distempers by a secret Emission of Volatil subtle Steams, Atoms and Effluvia’s. Such are all Remedies hung about the Neck, as Neeklaces and Amulets: All Remedies applied to, or hung about the Arms, Wrists, Fingers, or any other part of me Body, as Bracelets, Pericarpiums, Rings, Girdles, Stomachers, and all other such Remedies whatsoever, either to be hunger or carried about one, or to be kept near one, without ever en- tring into the Stomach, or any immediate Application to the ailing Part. Of such Remedies as these, several learned Phy- sicians, and particularly Mr. Boyle, have treated, calling 'em by the general Name of APPENDED Remedies; shewing from unquestionable Matters of Fact, their Efficacy in great Numbers of Cures, and to most of which they declare to have been Eye-witnesses. Several of which Cures are as follows. Of the Blood-stone a learned Author cited by Mr. Boyle, says these Words, Vidimus sanguinis fluxu afflictos remedium sensisse, Annulos ex hoc lapide consectos in digito continue gestando. Van Helenont and Paracelsus with a Ring made of a certain Metal, and worn only on the Finger, cured several Distempers, of which the latter thus speaks; Cum bonsi veritatis conscientia at- testari possivanus, bujus generis Annulos quos qui induit, Hunc, nec Spasmus convulsit, nec Paralysis corripuit, uec Doley ullus tyrsit: Simi- liter uec Apoplexis, nec Epilepsia invasit. From which Words it -plainly appears, that the Wearing only of those Rings cured and preserved the Parries from those Distempers. Van Helmont with a piece of the same Ring hung only about a Child’s Neck, cured it of a wasting pining Distemper. Agues are fre- quently cured by Remedies hung about the Neck, and Appli- cations to the Wrists, and Fingers. Boetius, cited-by Mr. Boyle, cured a Person of a Bloody-flux they had had six Years, by only hanging a certain Remedy about their Neck. Another was cured of a Diabetes, by the Powder of a Toad hung in a Bag about their Neck. Cramp-Rings by their Effluvia’s keep off Stupefaction. A cold Key laid on the Neck stops bleeding at the Nose. Calcin’d Vitriol, commonly call’d Sympathetick Pow- der, is known by almost every Body to cure Wounds at a Di- stance, by being mixed with any thing tinged with the Blood. And Mr. Boyle tell us of a Gentleman that was cured of an Ulcer in his Bladder, by mixing this Powder with some of the Ulcer- ous Matter that he voided with his Urine. He persuaded him [5] by these Words, That the Remedy was such, that if it had any Virtue, it might do him good; and if it had none, it could not prejudice him: Upon which the Gentleman made a trial and was cured. Dr. Chamberlaine has often assured me that nothing is more common then to hang several sorts of Amulets about Women in Labour to help their Delivery, and give them an easy time: and of all the things that ever he knew of in the World, he declared to me that nothing in his opinion can come near the hereaster mentioned Necklace for this end, as well as for Chil- drens Teeth, and Distempers of the Head. See the Dr's own words to me on this subject hereafter in the 5th Chapter. A piece of Sheet Lead is frequently hung about Women’s Necks to take away their Milk, or a Wen, or to help Sore Eyes. A piece of Gold is also Hung about the Neck of Persons affli- cted with the Evil; which Gold, by its Alealious Efflu- via’s, so acts on the Distemper, that if the Person misfortu- narely loses it, the Distemper returns 'till they wear another Piece of Gold; this every one knows. Forestus tells us, That he knew Several Persons cured of violent Head-achs only by hanging the Herb Vervain about their Necks, after many other Remedies were used to no Purpose. A great many more In- stances of these kind of Cures might be here brought out of several other reputable Authors, but these are fully sufficient to prove the Truth of the Doctrine here asserted of the Real Existence of Atoms and Effluvias, and their acting and reacting by a mutual Flux and Reflux between Distant bodies; and there- by to shew what great Changes may be produced in a Human Body, without ever taking in any thing visibly at the Mouth, Now as to the Manner how all these and such-like Cures are performed, it will sufficiently appear by explicating the effect of the just-now-mentioned Amulets or Remedies to be hung about the Neck; for the same Reason that is given for one explains (servatâ propertione) all the rest. When therefore any, thing is hung about the Neck by way of a Remedy, it is in some measure warm’d by the Neck of the Person by which means it’s Atoms and Effluvia’s are rarified, and consequently flow out in a greater Quantity: Flowing therefore out thus, all about the Neck and Head, they cannot fail meeting with the uneasy Atoms exhaled out of the ailing Part. The Atoms of each being thus Joined and united, they enter together by the suction of the Air (which the ailing Part breaths out) in- to the said ailing Part; where finding the Original Source from whence the uneasy Atoms first came, they naturally stay and stick there Being thus entered, they presently search into all the Corners, Fibres and Orifices of it, which hereby are comforted, eased, & imperceptably healed, of which see more in the IV Chp. Tis just in this manner that the hereafter mention [6] NECKLACE has of late performed so many great and surprising Cures: For Example. A Gentleman’s Child lately almost at Death’s Door with hard Breeding and Cutting its Teeth: A certain Per- son of Quality (whose Child but just before had Cut its Teeth by it) advised the use of this Necklace: by which its Teeth presently Cut with little or no pain. The curious may be farther, satisfied of this, of Mrs. Royce next to the Crown-Ale- House in Cranburn-Ally near Leicester-Fields. A Young Gentlewoman who almost from her Infancy had such Sore Weak Eyes, that she cou’d hardly look at, or bear the Light; by wearing only this Necklace has her Eyes now so strengthened, as to read the smallest Print, which she could never do before; The Person that disposes of this Neck- lace, will direct any one to the Gentlewoman. A Certain Gentlewoman having had a very hard and difficult Labour with every one of her Children, (she having had 5) her Husband was resolved to send the next time for a Man- Midwife; to which she being very loath to Consent, hearing of a great many Women that had had a very easy Labour by wear- ing of this Necklace, presently sent for one, and wore it. Soon after she was brought to Bed, and had such an easy time, that she her self was surprised at it, as well as the Midwife, and other Women that were present: and confest afterwards that she thought she did not feel half a quarter of the Pain which she had with any one of her 5 Children before. THE Child of a substantial Tradesman near Charing-Cross, be- ing very uneasy and restless from the Pain it had from Cutting its Teeth, found such benefit by wearing this Necklace, that in 12 Hours time after it was hung about its Neck it Cut 3, & the rest easily Cut without Pain by degrees afterwards. But there still remains one famous Sympathetick Effect to account for, to wit, the celebrated NOSE of Talicotius in Hudibras, of which in the following Chapter. CHAP. II Of the celebrated Sympathetick Nose of Talicotius, mention'd in the 1st Canto. of the 1st part of Hudibras, in these Verses. So learned Talicotius, from The brawny part of Porter's Bum Cut Supplemental Noses, which Lasted as long as Parent Breech: But when the Date of Nock was out Off dropt the Sympathetick Snout. IN the Year 1495. being the Year after the fatal Siege of Naples by the French, a certain Surgeon at Bolognia in Italy, by Name Tagliacorza (at that time Surgeon to the great Duke of Florence), seeing his own Species extreamly disfigured by a certain Distemper that crept into it, set up a Manufa- cture of NOSES. (A very seasonable Invention, at that [7] time) having first got a Patent that none should presume to make Noses besides himself. ( Lucri bonus est odor ex re Qualibet, says Juvenal) His first Patient was a Nobleman of Brussels, who being then at Bolognia, had the Misfortune to lose his Nose. He went strait to this Surgeon to advise how he might have a new Nose, and not willing to have his own Flesh cut, hired a Porter, who for a Sum of Money (Auri sacra fames, Quid non mortalia pectora cogis!) let him have a Nose cut out of his Posteriors (UNDE habeas quœrit nemo, says Juvenal, sed opor- tet habere) which the Surgeon so well grafted on to the re- maining part of the Gristle, that it would Blow, Sneeze, Smell, take Snuff, Cock, Toss, and Turn up, pronounce the Let- ters M or N; nay, even the Hebrew Letter Ghnajin, and in short do all the Functions of a genuine and natural Nose. The next Patient was a Spanish Don, whose Complexion being very much upon the Tawny, with very black Eyes and Eye-brows, and the Nose being taken from another Porter that not only had a very white Skin, but cut out of those Parts that are not exposed to the Sun; it was very visible that the Features of his Face were not Fellows: Now to remedy this Inconvenience for the future, the Doctor got together a great Collection of Porters, Men of all Complexions, Black, Brown, Ruddy, Fair, Dark, Tawny and Pale; so that it was impollible for a Patient of the most out of the way Colour, not to find a Nose to match it. The Doctor’s House was now become a kind of Hospital for the FASHIONABLE Cripples of both Sexes that restored to him from all Parts of Europe, having a large Brazen Snout fast- ned over his Door. He is reported at one time to have had twenty French Marquisses, thirty German Counts, fifty Spanish and Portuguese Dons, three Irish Captains,and one English' Squire that Travell'd in those Parts for foreign Accomplishments, of whom more hereafter. Now altho the Doctor had the Monopoly of Noses in his own Hands, yet he was not at all unreasonable in his Price: Indeed if any one had occasion for a high Roman Nose, it was pretty dear; also a large Bottle Nose bore a good Price; because, as Hudibras says, Th' intrinsick value of a Thing, Is as much Money as 'twill bring. But as for your ordinary short Cock- ing turn'd up Noses, of which there was the greatest Consumption, they came pretty easy to the Purchasers, especially considering that they wou’d rather pay at any Rate for them than go without. Now these insitious Noses were always affected with the Pain as well as Death of the Original Proprietor. An emi- nent Instance of which happen’d to three Testy Germans, whose Noses were all made of the same piece of Brawn. The Case was this; One Day they all three found their Noses to Twitch, Shoot, and Swell extreamly, upon which they sent presently to enquire how the Porter did, to whom they were new thus Allied: Upon Enquiry they found that the Parent of their Noses (to wit the Porter’s Posteriors) had been that very Day severely kicked, and that he kept his Bed on Ac- count of the Bruises he had received; So that in these Cases the Porters Led the Gentlemen entirely by the Nose. Also on the other hand, if any thing went amiss with the Noses, the Por- ters presently felt the effects of it; insomuch, that commonly an Agreement was made with the Patient, that he should not only abstain from all his old Courses; but also that he should on no pretence whatsoever smell to Pepper, Ginger, Spirit of Harts-horn, or Sal Armoniac, take Snuff, nor eat Horse-Ra- dish, or Mustard; on which occasion presently the part where the Incision had been made, was seized with intollerable Twinges, Prickings and Pains: And consequently the Porters, by these Contracts, Held the Gentlemens Noses close to the Grindstone. The English 'Squire abovemention’d, was so very irregular, and relapsed so frequently into the Distemper which at first carry’d off that part of his Face, and brought him to this Surgeon, that in less than four Years he wore out seven No- ses; and by that means so tormented the Porters, that if he wou’d have given a 1000l. for a Nose, there was not one Por- ter of them all that wou’d accommodate him; but ever after verified in himself that saying of Martial, Non cuicunque datum est habere Nasum: So that he was called l'Inglese chi ha hauuto sette Nasi, the Englishman that had had seven Noses (Risum te- neatis Amici) But as Horace says, Amoto quæramus seria ludo; and therefore Paulo majora canamus. The Doctor’s first Patient, viz. The Nobleman of Brussels returned home, and about thirteen Months after he felt his Nose on a sudden grow Cold, and within a few Days it rot- ted and fell quite off; at which being very much surprized, he made strict enquiry Into the Cause, and it was found that just at the same time that the Nose grew cold, the Porter, whole Name was Noque, at Bolognia died. This Passage is related by Van Helmont, and, as he says, was attested by a great many in his time living in Brussels and is that of which Hudibras speaks, being seriously and without jokeing, Matter of Fact. The Difficulty now remains to explicate how this could be. According therefore to the Law of Nature abovemention’d there was a perpetual Tendency and Inclination to each other, between the Atoms and Pores of the Porter’s Body and the insitious Nose of the Nobleman, as still subordinate to the Por- ter. and terminated to him as to its Relation, Kin and Whole, of whom it was notwithstanding its Separation and Distance as truly a Part as before Separation, and as much Respected, Regarded and Tended towards the Porter as to its WHOLE, as ever it did before: For it is always true to say (being a [9] Proposition, as the Logicians say, Æternæ Verltatis that the infitious Nose was still a part of the Porter, and no Body else notwithstanding its being grafted on another Stock: it being impossible for all the Separation or Distance in the World to destroy the Truth of that Proposition: So that the Vital Spirit in the Part and the Whole not differing in Nature and Quality, by consequence the Vital Spirit being affected in the Porter, it was aJso at the same Mathematical instant of time affected In the infitious Nose, which altho’ grafted on the No- bleman's Face was nevertheless still animated with the Vitality of the Porter of whom it was yet truly a Part: For which reason the Part’s being affected by the destruction of the Whole, does not depend on any distance or determinate space of Place being not at all Local, but on the mutual Vitality, and therefore must be extended according to the reach of this Vitality where- soever it is. So that the intitious Nose as animated at first belng- still inform’d with the Vitality of the Porter; the Vitality in the Porter ceasing, the Vitality also of the Nose ceased: & con- sequently the Porter dying altho’ at Bolognia, the Nose became a dead Nose even at Brussels. Chap. III. of Dentition, or Breeding of Teeth In Children, With the true Method of assisting them. THE Germen or Bud of a Tooth in the Jaws of an Infant is at first a mucous thin soft slims Pulp like the White of an Egg, contained in its Cell, which by degrees grows harder, till the Matter being throly hardned breaks thro; which Perrupti- on occasions many dreadful Symptoms to poor Infants. The time of Protrusion for the Coming forth of this hardned Matter which compose the Teeth is very different; In some it is sooner, as in the 3d and 4th Month: In others not till the 6th or 7th Month: In many it is later as in the 8th or 9th Month; and in some not till they are a Year old, but this is not so frequent. In many Children the Cutting Is very tedious, especially if the Eye-Teeth, and other Teeth happen to Cut together. As for their order of Cutting: the Fore-Teeth are generally Cut first, both above and below, the 2 middle ones first, and then those on each side, which are 8 in all. Afterwards the Great Teeth wherein the chief danger lies. The time of Cutting is also known, by Infants putting their Fingers in their Mouths, and the Gums, being swell'd, & looking white, great pain afflicting them, with more then usual Cryings, Restlessness, Looseness, and often times Convulsions, and Feavers. The Cause of hard Breeding and Cutting of Teeth is some- times in the Teeth themselves, being blunt and growing but slowly, whereby the Gums cut and open the more difficultly: So that always the sharper the Teeth are, the more exquisite and sensible is the Pain, but withal such Teeth Gut the soon- [10] est, which made Hippocrates in his 25th Aphorism blame the Eye-Teeth, as the Authors of worse Symptoms then any of the rest. Sometimes in the Gums, when their substance is more solid and harder then usual, by which the Cutting being made the more difficult, by consequence great Pain is caused in them from the hardness of the Teeth pushing and thrusting on the Gums being very sensible parts, even in Adult Persons, and much more in young tender Infants. From whence an Infla- mation arising with great pain and disturbance of the Spirits, a continual Feaver is many times produced, whereby Acid Va- pours ascending to the Original of the Nerves, and irritating them, Convulsions and other dismal Effects are caused. If therefore the Teeth come forward but slowly, and the Gums be hard, swell’d, hot, and pain’d, all endeavours must be used to soften the Gums and thereby to bring them out and give ease; amongst which nothing in the World exceeds the use of the hereafter mentioned Necklace, as in the next Chapter I shall clearly prove. As for the use of a Coral, so frequent in Fashi- on for Children in this Condition. I have in the Printed Di- rections for wearing this Necklace which are sealed up along with it, evidently shewn, that it is so far from being benefi- cial that it is even quite wrong to let any Child use it, but in- stead of it I have mention’d another thing, which will cost about a Penny, for Children to hold in their Hands to Nabble upon and Rub their Gums with. For a Coral or any other such hard thing pressing so very hard on the sore, tender and inflam'd Gums, by reason of their extream hardness, puts the Children to a pain instead of that pleasure we suppose them to have in rub- bing their own Mouths and Gums with it, which consequently keeps them from rubbing and moderately pressing on their Gums with it so much and so often as they ought to do, that by pressing it thus upon the Edge of the Teeth, the Gums might be- come in some measure as it were benum’d, and thereby the Cutting of the Teeth less felt by the Child. Whereas the Thing that I have mentioned in the Directions, not being so very hard as Coral, and yet hard enough for the end proposed, sufficiently presses on the Gums to help let the Teeth out and withal gives them a pleasure in rubbing their Gums with it, and by conse- quence excites them to so frequent a Use of It, as is necessary for the Teeth’s Cutting. So that notwithstanding this Necklace is worn by Children, yet the use of this Thing I have mentioned will still help and assist the Teeth's coming out: (Vis unita is al- ways Fortior being 2 Strings to the Bow.) and will cost only about a penny, and is to be bought in almost every Street of London. When therefore Children put frequently their Fingers or any thing else into their Mouths, endeavouring thereby to ease the iching and Throbbing pain of their Gums: When they bite the [11] Nurses Nipple: when their is an in ward Heat in the Mouth, and a larger then usual flux of saliva, from the Pain’s vellicating and contracting the Salivatory Ducts and Glands, by which a larger quantity then ordinary of Serum is squeesed and pressed out to the Mouth: When there is a Redness in the Cheeks, and Whiteness on the Gums, with frequent and unusual Cryings and Uneasinesses, you may Besure their Teeth are coming, and then is the time for them to wear this Soverain Necklace. Now as to the true Method of proceeding with a Child in this condition: Those means must be made use of, which are capable of their own Nature, to Open the Gums; for if once this be but done, the Teeth of themselves, which are continu- ally pushing forward, will naturally come out: What there- fore promotes this end, is to be enquired after; and then all the concomitant and subsequent Symptoms cease, and are preven- ted; according to that Principle in Philosophy, Take but away any Cause, and the Effect presently causes. Since therefore all the Miseries and Evils which happen to Children in Breeding their Teeth proceeds from this one cause of the Gums being hard and more then usually CLOSED: it follows by consequence that all our present enquiry must Roul and depend upon this one point of Softning and OPENING them, it being an esta- blished Maxim in Physick as well as Morals, That All Contraries must be cured by their Contraries. So that if a means be but found out for this end, we have our desire: search therefore is to be made for some Remedy endowed with such Volatil Alca- lions Particles, and Atoms, as are capable by their smooth and insinuating Figure and Shape, easily and gently to glide and enter into the Pores of the swell’d, inflam’d, and dilated Gums, and thereby to Loosen their strict Frame and Closure, and so o- pen them. For ’tis to no purpose to Go round about the Bush, by making use of any Remedies in particular against the Fea— ver, the Convulsions and other Symptoms attending the hard Breeding and Cutting of Childrens Teeth, without one takes away the Cause by Opening the Gums, as just now has been said, and thereby strike at the Root of the Evil. Now for this End there is nothing in the whole World so proper as the Necklace here proposed, as I shall plainly shew In the following Chap- ter, especially since Children are never very willing to take many Remedies inwardly. Chap IV. How, according to the foregoing Principles, this Necklace acts on Childrens Gums and Teeth. Some time ago I had a certain Necklace communicated to me by a Friend, with such a Character of its Virtues, as seem’d at first very Surprising: It had been used in private for many Years, with a constant Success, in helping Children to Breed and easily cut their Teeth: In giving an easy Time to Women in (12) Labour: And curring Distempers of the Head: All which it was said to perform by Sympathy. Now this Term of Sympathy making Persons only as Wise as they were before, I began to think that it wou’d be no small satisfaction to these Persons who use it, if its Manner of Operation were more satisfactorily explicated according to the Principles of the New Philosophy, and some few certain, and inviolably established Maxims in Physick, as follows, 1st Maxim. ALL ailing distemper’d parts naturally throw our, & exhale a prodigious number of Acid Mor- bisick Atoms in a certain Sphere and Circle of Activity about the ailing part: So that the swell’d and inflam’d Gums of Children that are Breeding and Cutting their Teeth, fill the Childs Mouth, with such a large Effluvium of these Atoms, that even the breath of the Child is loaded with them. 2nd Maxim. ALL ailing distemper'd parts draw violently to themselves (from a desire they have of Ease) the Circumambient Air, and together with it, whatever A- toms and Effluvias are in it. These 2 Maxims being thus settled, we must now have re- course to the Law of Nature established above in the first Chap. According to which, Out of the Pores of this Necklace hang- ing about a Child’s Neck there constantly slows such a vast Number of Atoms and Effluvias, from the prodigious quantity of Volatil Alcalious Anodyne Sulphur and Spirits, with which the matter it is made of abounds, that in a manner a real positive Atmosphere of them in Crowds and Swarms, like a Mist, is as visible about it, as of those Effluvias round a Load Stone, by the help of those Nice Glasses which discover to us Swarms of Animals either in a Drop of Vinegar; or in a bit no bigger then a Pin’s head of Corrupted Cheese. Which Atoms flowing thus out of the Necklace wander all about the Neck and Head of the Child, where they presently meet, join, & unite them- selves with the uneasy, restless, Morbisick Atoms of the in- flam’d Gums dispers’d, scatter’d, and Blown about by the Breath of the Child. These Atoms meeting thus together, are presently drawn by the Suction of the Air into the ailing part, which being swell’d & inflame’d, is by consequence dilated & distended, by which it’s Pores are more then usually open’d, and therefore more ready to receive whatever easing and comforting Atoms the Circumambient Air is loaded with. Now the Atoms which flow thus in such great quantities out of this Necklace, being Volatil Alcalies, are by consequence from their Smooth, Globular, and Cylindrical Figure and Shape, to the highest degree Balsamick, Easing and Anodyne; and beinng thus by the Suction of the Air which the heated and inflam’d Gums of the Child throws out, as just now has been said, drawn into the Childs Mouth, by their smooth & [13] insinuating Figure, they presently enter into the Alveoli or Sockets of the Gums, & there open those thin and most accu- rately sensible Membranes which include the Teeth; by which means the Gums insensibly in a manner separate, open, and give way to their Cutting and so let the Teeth out. And if the Gums are hard, sore, and actually inflamed, these Alcalious Atoms presently blunt, obtund and subdue those sharp, pun- gent, acid Atoms of the ailing part which cause the Inflama- tion and Pain; by which means the Inflamation and Pain al- most instantly cease, the Gums are softned, the Mouth cool- ed, the Feaver vanishes, Convulsions are prevented, and the Teeth do easily and pleasantly Cut: Insomuch, that the Effect will seem rather miraculous than natural; so that in a Night’s time a Child shall cut those Teeth, whose Gums before nothing but an Incision Knife cou’d open, and this without any the least Pain or violence, to the Gums; but much in the same man- ner as, Gutta cavat lapidem, non vi, sed SÆPE cadendo. The manner therefore of acting of this Necklace, is by way of a Removens Prohibens; that is, by removing an Impedi- ment, which being once taken away, the desired end will of it self naturally ensue: For since the difficult Cutting of Chil- drens Teeth proceeds from the hard and strict Closure of their Gums: If you get them but once separated and open’d, the Teeth will of themselves naturally come Forth: Now the smooth Alcalious Atoms of the Necklace by their insinuating figure and shape, do so make way for their Protrusion by gently softening and opening the hard swell’d Gums, that the Teeth will of themselves without any difficulty or Pain cut and come out, as has been sufficiently proved. The reasonableness of this Method of Cure may be con- ` firmed by several Examples: As of Galen himself, who in his sixth Book of the Virtues of simple Medicines, says, that he often cured Children of the Falling-Sickness, only by a Neck- lace of Peony Roots hung about their Necks: And altho’ he lived in an Age that saw no farther than Occult Qualities, yet he attributes it to the Particles flowing from the Neck- lace, Partes a radice defluentes, affectos ita curare, are his own Words. Since therefore this great Man cou’d say so much in those ignorant Peripatetical. Times wherein he lived, what would he have said, had he liv’d in the clear-sighted Age we are now in? And Mr. Culpepper tells us of one of his own Children that cut three Teeth presently after a certain Neck- lace was hung about its Neck. And another, he says, was instantly eased of the Tooth-ach, by the same Neck- lace also only hung about its Neck. Riverius, Senertus, Dr. Sydenham, Willis, Bates, and several other Physicians, all agree that a Necklace made of the Bone of a certain. Animal, & only [14] hung about a Child’s Neck, will almost miraculously help Its Teeth to cut, altho at Death’s Door before; and when they come to give a Reason for it, they give the very same that Galen did for his Necklace for the Falling-Sickness, to wit, that the Atoms and Effluvia’s of those Bones hung about the Neck act upon the Child’s Gums, and so let the Teeth out. The very same I say of this Necklace. Since therefore these just-now-mention’d Great Men placed such Considence in Their Necklaces, from the very same Reasons that I here propose This; I cannot but value this still the more, espe- cially since ’tis made of a Matter having all the Qualities for a Teeth-cutting Necklace, which They presumed to be in theirs. ’Tis no new Remedy: Necklaces of this Nature may be traced up to very ancient Authors, who certainly wou’d never have so considently asserred in their Writings, that the bare Wearing only a thing about one’s Neck wou’d have such and such Effects, if they had not been fully convinced of the Effect of those Atoms and Effluvia’s here made men- tion of. What would not an afflicted, distressed, and despair- ing Parent give, to ease an Infant that lies almost expiring with Pain? What Charges, Expences and Fees, are not pro- fusely (if I may say so) laid out in this Case? Try therefore this Necklace, which not only in private Practice by the re- commendation from one Friend to another, for many Years before it was publisht, has saved many a Child’s Life, by cau- sing the Teeth easily and pleasantly to Cut; but even since it was first publisht, which was only in July, 1715, has given en- tire Satisfaction to those great Numbers that have bought It. At least let the most timorous Person (as to Physick) be but con- vinced of this one Point, that it can do no Harm. Since therefore no danger, but good can possibly follow from the wearing it, no reasonable Person, I think, can object against It. And for a closer Proof of what has been here asserted, I’ll add, That if by interrupting the Action of any Cause, I alter, retard, or hinder its effect, I may boldly conclude that such a Cause was the only true Cause of the Effect, and no other. If therefore one of these Necklaces are sewed up In a Cloth, and so hung about the Neck, it will have no effect at all; which is an evident proof that its Virtue lies in subtle Atoms & Effluvias which flow out from it, and which the Cloth keeps in. Which may be yet confirm’d still farther by an experi- ment made before the Royal Society at Gresham College, and mentioned in the Philosophical Transactions of the Society, No. 308, upon the Electricity of Amber, Jet, Glass, and o- ther such Bodies, produceable by a smart Attrition of them: and which Electrical Attraction was entirely hindred in the presence of the whole Society by the interposition only of a [15] peice of fine Lawn or Muslin between the Bodies heated by rubbing, and the Bodies to be attracted: From whence it e- vidently appears that the Attraction is perform’d by Atoms and Effluvias exhaled out of the Electrick Bodies, and which the Lawn or Muslin kept in. Now the Matter of which this Necklace Is made being once throughly warm’d by being about the Child’s Neck, by con- sequence throws our it’s Effluvias and Atoms in a much greater quantity, then if it were entirely cold, it’s Pores being there- by more open’d, and it’s Atoms more ratified, which gives them still a great subtility and activity then they wou’d have without this adventitious Heat, and by this means they bear such a Tendency to Any ailing part, like those of the Load Stone to Iron, that they will never leave of acting till they have given case: and consequently is a Thing the most pro- portioned to Cure Sympathetically the Diseases of a Human Body of any thing in the whole World; There not being its Fellow in Art or Nature to be found for the end ’tis here proposed for. Chap. V. Three Consequences of the foregoing Principles; with an Account where this Necklace is to be had. 1st Consequence. That it is very good to wear this Necklace, not on- ly at the Time of hard breeding the Teeth, but both before they breed, and also after they are all cut, and also at the Time of shedding their Teeth. Let Children therefore wear it before they breed their Teeth, to prepare and loosen the Sockets of the Gums for the Teeth’s growing. Let them wear it whilst they are actually breeding them, to make the Sockets open, that they may cut and come out easily. Let them wear it after their Teeth are all come, to fasten them, and strength- en their Gums. Let them wear it whilst they shed their Teeth, to make the new ones at the Roots of the old ones, push and advance the better forwards, to drive the others out: And let all Persons who either actually have, or are subject to the Tooth- ach, wear it, that its Alcalious Effluvia’s may blunt those sharp and pungent Atoms, which enflame the thin sensible Membrane that surrounds the Marrow of the Tooth, and cause the Pain. 2d Consequence. That this Necklace helps also any illness in any part belonging to the Head: because the heal- ing Alcalious Atoms which constantly flow from the Necklace, will join and unite themselves with the ailing Atoms of any distemper’d part they meet with, and enter together with them into those ailing parts, and thereby give ease: Insomuch that Persons who are accustomed to have Red, Sore, or Weak Eyes, The Tooth-ach, Vapours, Fits, Head-achs, A Sore Throat, or Hoarsness, Hardness of Hearing, Cramps, Palsies, Apoplexies, Convulsions, &c. can have no Safer, Prettier, Easier, and Innocenter a Remedy, [16] than to wear one of these Necklaces; which according to the above said Principles act Rationally and Physically, and conse- quently by no manner of Superstition or Charm in the World. This Necklace therefore, although principally a Remedy for Childrens Teeth, yet’tis also of excellent use in all the other just now-mentioned Cases: And the Reason is, because the Atoms of the Necklace act on the Atoms of whatever ailing Part they meet with; so that if a Child should have Sore Eyes, Convulsions, a Thrush, or a Swell’d Face, as well as hard breeding of Teeth, this Necklace, according to the above- establish’d Principles, will Rationally and Physically help them all. An Instance of what has, been just now advanced hap- pened on May 2, 1715. in a young Woman, who for some Days and Nights had been restless with the at going to Bed put on one of these Necklaces, and in less than half an Hour it gave her entire Ease, having been before almost Distracted; she Slept all Night, and had no more Pain. Much about the same Time also three other Persons by wearing of these Necklaces for Hoarseness, Sore Throats, and Sore Eyes were presently cured. And great Numbers of Persons for ailments in their Ears, as Thick- ness of Hearings, &c. have found benefit by only wearing this Necklace a Night or 2, after they had tried all other Means, as Syringing, &c. to no purpose: because its Balsamick healing A- toms enter into the Ear, & there rectifie in a peculiar manner the disorder-of the Tympanum or Drum. Also any Person that has an Issue in their Arm, Or a Blister or Drawing Plaister or Issue in their Neck, if they wear this Necklace they will find that they will Run as much again, as they wou’d if they did not wear it. So that any Person that happens butto have this Necklace in the House, in any of these Cases, If they do but use it as has been mention’d, will soon experience the be- nefit of it, and return me thanks for putting them in mind, to step to their Drawer to fetch it. 3d Consequence That this Necklace also, besides these just-now-men- tioned Effects, will Give to Women in Labour, that Wear It (only at that Time, as Dr. Chamberlaine expressly advises,) such an extraordinary Easy Time, that they will not suffer the Hundredth part of Pain, that they wou’d without it: for from the insinuating Figure of Its Altalious Atoms and Effluvia's, the same Reasons prove that it will act in regard to their Delivery, as it does to let the Teeth out of the lockt-up Gums of Children. The Reasonableness of this appears from Things that have a quite contrary Effect, as all Precious Stones and Gems, especially Diamonds, whether In Rings, the Ears, or elsewhere; which for that Reason Dr Chamberlains advises to be removed as far as may be from a Woman in Labour; because [17] says he, by their Astringent and Repelling Atoms, they hinder Delivery: By the same Argument this Necklace, by its opening and attracting Atoms will help it; so that any Woman in La- bour that wears this Necklace, will almost to a wonder be easily, presently, and safety Delivered. For which reason the Great Dr. Paul Chamberlaine in Suffolk-street, on the 26th of Nov. 1715, express'd himself to me in these words. I desire (said he to me) that you will let the World know from ME, and in MY Name, that I expressly advise the Wearing of this Necklace to all Women in Labour: To all Children for their Teeth: And to all Persons that have any ailment in any part belonging to their Head, and therefore I wish that all such Persons wou’d wear it. For (said he) I myself for many Years have used of the very same Matter of which this Necklace is made, for the very same ends, and always with Success. Therefore if I MYSELF were Present, I wou’d be the first Pre- son that should put it about their Necks: For of all the things that I know in the whole World, there is nothing that can come near this Necklace for these-ends. These were exactly the Drs. own words to me in his Closet. The Truth of which he has been pleased himself often since to testifie to several who have enquired of him about it. So that any Person that uses this Necklace, does nothing less than follow the Great Dr. Chamberlains's ex- press advice, which no one can refuse especially in the abovementioned Cases, of Women in Labour, and for Children.—Note. Women in Labour had better Wear it like a Garter, then about their Necks. And all other Persons as near as they can to the Ailing part; because always the nearer 'tis worn to the ailing part, the more sure its Effluvia are to have their effect. Let therefore no one rashly despise this Sympathetick, and Philosophical Method of Cure, till they have unsuccessfully tried it, but rather esteem it, as a Pretty, Easy, and Safe one: especially since we see that Nature abounds with much greater Wonders: as for example Load-stone, whose Effect on Iron altho’ visible to our Eyes, has nevertheless so puzzled even the most Learned & Nicest Naturalist clearly to explicate, that if it were not evi- dent to our Sences, no one wou’d ever beleive it. What wonder then is it that the same Fertile Nature, shou’d furnish us with such a Necklace as is here proposed?—Wherefore; since Matter of Fact is as evidently here present to convince us of the wonderful Effects of this Necklace: Let us make use of it with Grati- tude to the Great Author of Nature, and Adore with St. Paul The Depth of the Wisdom and Knowledge of Almighty God, who has created such Wonders for the Sake and Use of Man. A Vast Many of these Necklaces are daily sold, (being now used in great numbers of Families with a constant success) & not so much as any ONE Person ever yet made the least Objec- tion against them: which to be sure some Peevish Person [18] or other, would not have failed to have done, if they cou’d but have found the least Room for any Flaw or Complaint in it. But on the contrary Persons continually magnifie it's Virtues, and express their abundant satisfaction in the Use of it: Several Ladies and others that have bought it, all agree- ing in this one point, that they wou’d not for 100 pounds but have had it: And indeed no Family ought to be without it. But what still, in my opinion, adds infinitely more to even the Honour and Credit, as well as Value of this Great Neck- lace, then all that has been said of it, is: That Dr. Chamber- laine not only almost daily sends great Numbers of Persons of his acquaintance to buy it, but also frequently sends for it HIMSELF for the Use of his own Patients, and has of late sent for a prodigious number: which to be sure he wou’d ne- ver do, if he was not fully convinced of it’s Virtues. This Necklace, which is very Light, not weighing more than a few Pepper-corns, & consequently fit for Children, is not at all Unhandsome for even Any Person to Wear, [being neatly made of a certain Volatil, Spirituous, Sulphureous Bone, filled & replete with Alcalious Atoms & Effluvias, so loaded with Volatil, Anodyne, Alcalious Sulphur & Spirits, that nothing can compare with it for the end proposed, and is a particular Secret known to none but the Author,] & is to be had only of the Gen- tlewoman up One pair of Stairs, At the Sign of the Sugar Loaf a Confectioners Shop over against Old Round Court, near the New Ex- change in the Strand. Price 5s. Sealed up (so close, as not to spend & wast it self before it is Worn, by an Unnecessary Profusion & Eva- poration of its Volatil & Spirituous Particles and Atom's, which were in not thus close sealed up, it wou’d most certainly do, it is of so Spirituous, Subtle, and Volatil a Nature) with printed Directions for Wearing it, adapted to all Sorts of Persons. Note. If any Gentlemen, Traders, Merchants, Captains or Mates of Ships, or others Trading abroad to the East or West Indies or elsewhere, will take either any of these Neck- laces, or of the following Drops or Plums: or of the Specifick Remedy ox Elixir mention’d in the Practical Scheme of Secret Inju- ries and Broken Constitutions Given Gratis in English Or French, at the Places Advertised at the end of this Book, they shall not only have very large Allowance from the Person that sells these Necklaces, by a very great abatement of the Price they are sold at here by Retail, with Printed Directions in English or French, to carry along with them: but also may gain considerably by them otherwise: For Example: Several have already carried them abroad, and Sold the Necklaces for 10s. a peice. The Spe- cifick Remedy and Elixir, (each of which is enough oftentimes to cure Several Persons) for double the Price they are Sold at here: The same also the Drops and Plums. [19] APPENDIX. Of SAFFRON DROPS, and Purging SUGAR-PLUMS. Saffron is allowed by all Physicians to be the greatest Ve- getable Cordial In the World: ’Tis the Chive of a little Flower from a Plant, very plentiful about Saffron-Walden in Cambridgeshire, where the best Saffron in the World grows. The Character Physicians give of Saffron is this, That it exhilerates the Heart, revives all the Senses and Spirits; resists and drives out the Plague & all malignant Feavers, gives freeness of Breath, provokes Urine, gives a good Appetite and Digestion, causes Sleep and Rest; Cures the Cholick and Pain in the Stomach, &c. The Virtues therefore of this little Plant being so great: At the above-mention’d Place are also Sold, in little Neat Pocket- Bottles, certain Drops drawn from Saffron, and therefore cal- led by the Name of SAFFRON DROPS; being of great Use for the Stomach and Blood, to drive and keep out any Di- stemper or Malignity from the Heart, Blood, and Vitals in all those Cases where Sweats, Cordials, Saffron, Sack, Black-Cher- ry, or Treacle-Water, Venice-Treacle, Diascordium, Mithri- date, Treacle-Posset, Treacle or Rosemary and Ale, at going to Bed, and such-like Things are usually given; as in all sud- den illnesses from Heats and Colds, all Sorts of Feavers and Feaverish dispositions, Small-Pox, Measles, Surfeits, Indigestions, and all Malignant, Pestilential, and Contagious Diseases at Sea or Land, proceeding from corrupted and changed Airs, and Cli- mates, bad Liquors, and Diet, hard Drinking, Fast-living, and other Disorders: They wonderfully help Shortness of Breath, Wheeling, Ptisicky and other Coughs, proceeding from a sharp tickling Humor dripping on the Lungs by opening their Furr’d Pipes and Passages. They kill and destroy Worms, strengthen a weak Stomach, and keep the Gout out of it; give a good Appetite and Digestion, restore and increase the Vital Balsam in Consumptions, and inward Wastings; and for any sudden Indisposition, Qualm, Faintings, want of Spirits, Sick- ness at Heart, or Stomach, or any other Illness or Indisposition whatsoever, in all Ages, Sexes, and Constitutions (for even Infants, and Women with Child, may safely take them (they are a most excellent Thing. They give present Ease In the Cho- lick and Gripes; take away Vapours, and Illnesses of the Head, by rectifying the Tone of a depraved Stomach And for all Infectious Distempers, they are of such excellent Use, by keeping the Person entirely HEART WHOLE in the midst of the Infection, that if these Drops had but been used in those Countries where the Plague has of late Years rag- ed, above two thirds of those who died might have been sav- ed. These Drops abundantly surpass the use of any Stomach [20] Elixir, or any Bitter, Cordial, or Purging Tincture, such as Daffy's, and such-like Elixirs; being infinitely more friendly to the Stomach than Wormwood, Centaury, or any other such Ingredient, of which most Tinctures, Elixirs, and Bitters are usually made. These DROPS taken in a Morning (altho’ by Persons never so well in Health) in a little Ale or Wine will do more Service than some Quarts of Scurvy-Grass Ale, Purl or any other such Draughts, in order to preserve the whole Day alter from any Illness, Infection, or Indisposition whatsoever. They are of great Use all Obstructions, provoke Urine, expel Wind, bring away Slime and Gravel from the Kidnies, Reins- and Bladder. They may be taken at any time of the Day whenever you please, in a little Beer, Ale, or Wine; or take them 2 or 3 times a Day, or Morning, and Night; or only in the Morning, just as you please; They require no confinement within Doors, or keeping warm (be- cause they are not Physick) but may be taken at any Hour in the Day, at home or abroad, and consequently are the pret- tyest, portable, ready Thing in all the abovementioned Cases; but especially those that proceed from a soul Blood, and dis- ordered Stomach, that can possibly be for Family, Sea, or Travelling Use, being indeed chiefly Cordial, but yet a little Alterative so as to give a Person at least one Stool in 24 hours These Drops are as necessary for all Seamen, Soldiers, and Travellers, who pass thro’ different Climates, and corrupted Airs, and Fogs, to carry with them almost as their daily Food, to preserve them from Infection and the Scurvy. Price 1s. a Bottle, Sealed up with Directions. Or 9s. a dozen. Purging SUGAR-PLUMS entirely without Mercury. SO often mentioned in the Publish Prints, and use now for several Years in great Numbers of Families with such great success and likeing, not to be distinguished by any Mortal living from common Sugar-Plums bought at the Confectioners; only those at the Confe- ctioners are quite round, whereas these are made something flatish; But as for their Colour, Taste, Smell, &C. ‘tis impossible for any one that eats them, to distinguish 'em from a common Sugar-Plum a lump of Loaf-Sugar, or a bit of Sugar-Candy; having neither any Nauseous, Sickly, Physical, Squeamish or disagreable Taste, or leaving any such Taste behind them in the Mouth, but may be eaten with the same Ease, Pleasure, and unconcernedness, that a bit of Sugar-Candy, or a common Sugar-Plum is; and consequently are so pretty, inno- cent, and easy a Thing to take for Men and Women of nice and squea mish Palates, and Children who will not take Physick; (for you may here deceive them with a Sugar-Plum, when they will take nothing else) cleansing the Body and Stomach of any foul Humours, without any, hindrance of Business, or staying whole Days within Doors, as [21] you must with any other Physick (for their working will be all over in a- bout 2 Hours time, eat them when you will) that 'tis only not knowing of them, that makes Persons not have them: For any one that takes them, will afterwards find themselves quite another Thing from what they were before: They'll be so easy, breathe so freely, have a Stomach to their Meat, Sleep so sound, and in fine, be so lightsome and healthy that nothing but your trial of them can convince you of their good effect; being of use in all common Cases, where cleansing the Stomach, and carrying off foul Humours is required; carrying off at once what otherwise would lay the Foundation of a future fit of Sickness; so that if Persons upon the very first approach of any Sickness or indisposition from Surfeits, Heats, Colds, Drinking, &c before they think of Bleeding, Sweating, or any thing else, would but presently out of hand, when they first find themselves out of order, eat but a few of these little Plums, they would be as well again at ever they were in their Lives, in four Hours time, whereas otherwise they may lie by it several Weeks. Price 12d. a dozen, Buy at ma- ny or as few as you please, with Printed Directions for their use, which I desire every one to read before they Try them. Or 9s. a Gros. So that if any Shopkeeper or Others in Town or Country is willing to sell them again, they may be furnished here; and shall be very kindly used, with the above said large allowance, & a printed Sheet to hang out if they desire it: And whatever an damaged, or not sold, may at any time be returned again: so that no one can be any loser by them. One Plum (which will cost only a Penny, and is entirely without Mercury) is enough to purge a Child of 2, 3 or 4 Years old. Two one of 5, 6, or 7. Three one of 8, 9, and upwards: And a Man or Woman may eat 4, 5, or 6 of them. The use of these Plums is as follows. I. They kill, destroy, and bring away all Sorts of Worms, with the slimy corrupted Matter that breeds them; having brought away from Several Man, Women, and Children, great knots of such Worms at these. And on Christmas Eve, 1714, two of these Plums brought away a- live near half a Pint of these sort of Worms, from the Child of Mr. Dixon, a Taylor, in Feathers-Court in St. Martins-Lane, an ac- count of which any one may see more at large in an Advertisement in the Evening-Post on Tuesday, Dec. 28, 1714. Now Worms are in the Bodies of most Men and Women as well as Children, causing growings and-pains in the Stomach and Bowels, the Cholick, Feavers, Gripes, Pinings and Wastings away; with an innumerable train of other Diseases and Indispositions, which People are usually astonisht at, whereas at the bottom they all come from Worms. These Plums have been given to Children and others who were in a [22] pining Condition, and could not Eat, and to Such at have been afflic- ted with Vomiting; and to Children that have had the Rickets, and almost eaten up with Worms, and they have been almost miraculously cured, by once or twice taking them, and afterwards grew fat and lusty: For these Plums take away all those Obstructions, which hinder the Nutriment from going to its respective Parts; so that Persons who were before almost continually ailing and out of Order, by taking of these Plums have afterwards had their Healths extraordinarily. II. They Cure all sorts of Agues, and intermitting Feavers, being taken 7 or 8 Hours before the Fit, by clearing the Stomach of that nasty load and Cake which lies there, and causes the Fits. III. They cleanse and clear the Pipes, of the Lungs of that Flegm with which they are stuffed and clogged up, that causes Coughs, Wheesings, Shortness and difficulty of Breathing; so that Persons will find wonderful ease, relief, and freeness of Breath, altho’ they may have been in a Wheesing and Coughing Condition several Years, and almost at the brink of the Grave, for want of Breath. Lastly. They carry off all those Crudities, which mixing themselves with the Blood, cause the Scurvy, Gout, Dropsy, Rheumatism, and other wanaring Pains, the Green-sickness, Jaundice, Itch, and other Ailments which proceed from a corrupted Blood, and a foul Sto- mach, giving a good Appetite and Digestion. And take away these Fumes which cause Pains in the Head, Vapours, Apoplexies, difficulty of Hearing, and other such Indispositions of the Head. ADVERTISEMENT. FOR the Publick Good, and general Improvement of Man- kind in the way of WRITING ; whoever Buys either One of the above-mention’d Necklaces: Or a Bottle of the SAFFRON DROPS: Or a Dozen of these Sugar-Plums, may have GIVEN them GRATIS (into the Bargain) if they desire it, That great and inestimable Secret which the Ingenious and Learned World has so long tried to find out, and is now at last discovered, being entirely a New Invention, never found out 'till now: By which any Person may WRITE AS FAST AS SPEAK. Write a whole Sentence sooner then a Word: Write as much in a few Minutes as usu- sally in a whole Day: As much on One Page, as otherwise on 7 or 8: and consequently have as much represented to the View at one Sight, as otherwise would require the Reading of several Hours: which makes it so great a help to the Me- mory, that as much may be Read and Studied in one Day, as otherwise can in a Week. And consequently as much Progress made in Learning and Business by this way of Writing in one Year, as usually is in 7 or 8, and that with much less La- bour and Pains. From whence ’tis easy to Judge the Profit of this New way of Writing, since by it so much Time and Labour saved. Necessary for all Members of Parliament, Lawyers, Di- [23] vines Ladies, Students, Tradesmen, Shopkeepers, Travellers, and in fine all sorts of Persons from the highest to the lowest Quality Degree, Rank, Station, Condition, Learning, Trade, Business, Employment or Profession whatsoever,; To Write down pre- sently even in their Pocket-Book, if they please, as it were unconcernedly, and rather by way of a Diversion then any thing else, whatever they hear or see done This Method of Writing the Author Invented indeed at first for his own pri- vate use in his Studies; and finding great benefit and ease by it, in the quick dispatch of Writing, and Business, now com- municates it to the World for the publick Good and assistance of others.—But this Method of Writing is not to be Sold by it self ALONE for any Money on any Account whatsoever, but only to be Given (for the encouragement of Lean- ning) to those who Buy any of the abovemention’d things. Tis true a Great many Methods of Swift Writing have been Published for near 200 Years last past by Authors: but so Diffi- cult, Confused, and Burdensome to the Memory, that instead of Encouraging, they have only served to Deter many from Learning, who wou’d have Reaped great benefit by it, had such an Easy, Plain, and Regular one been proposed as this is, not at ail burdensome to the Memory: but so very Easy and Plain that any one may presently Learn it. And how much such a Swift Method of Writing as this is, has been long desired by almost every body, sufficiently appears from those Contractions and Abreviations, Persons so frequently make use of in their Writings, in order to Write as fast as they can. Nothing therefore can be more useful to all Persons of Learning and Business for the Ready, Swift, and speedy Writing down their own Notes, and Observations; taking of Tryals Speeches, Sermons &c. then this way of Writing. The End of this New way of Writing, is not so much to Write a great deal in a little Room, as a great deal in a little Time: Tis not saving of Paper, but Time is Principally aimed at in this ART. And as for keeping Pace with a Moderate Speaker, which so many Authors of Short and Swift Writing so much boast of; ’tis what not one in 20 of the very Authors them- selves (let them pretend what they will ) nor even One In 500 of their Scholars cou’d ever yet do by any Method ever yet Extant, before THIS appeared in the World: They may Talk and Brag what they please: their Methods are so confused puzling, and Intricate: So that had but an easy plain method once been proposed (such a one as this is) tis certain that for One Learner hitherto, there wou’d have been 20, because to be sure almost every body wou’d be glad to Write as Fast as Speak, if they cou'd but Easyly Learn it, as they may use this Method, which consists only of a few Rules and [24] Principles, so certainly established, that when you have Write one Line, you may write Ten Thousand: and is equally fitted to any Language whatever, either English, French, Latin, Dutch. or any other, which was never yet performed by any Author. And what Confirms me still more in my esteem of the way of Writing, is, that several Honourable Members of both Houses of Parliament, who have already Learn’t this Method re- commending it from one to Another, became so expert in it and found such benefit by it, that they confessed afterwards that they would not for 500l. but have Learnt it: It being indeed the only thing in its kind ever yet invented. A very particular Instance of the Success of the above- Mentioned NECKLACE. THE Child of Mr. Gordon a Japaner in the Ally in the Ca- stle-Inn-Yard in Aldersgate-street, being so wasted away that every one thought it could not live; by only Wearing this Necklace presently Cut 3 Teeth without any Pain, & from a poor weak, sickly, pining Infant, it became a lustly, brave, healthy strong Child, as any one that pleases may be there far- their certified of by seeing the Child. Which prodigious alte- ration wrought by it in this Child, evidently proves the won- derful Efficacy of this Necklace, not only on the Teeth, but also on most other Distempers that afflict Children. And indeed I do really think that any equal Wager might be safely laid, on it’s having the very same effect on 18 or 19 Children out of 20. And such a one is a good and valuable Physical Necklace. I could here reckon up great numbers of other such unde- niable Instances of Cures (I might say Wonders) performe'd by this Necklace on Men, Women, and Children, but for want of room am forced to make an end, and therefore must refer my Reader to the Publick Prints, in which al- most daily Testimonies and Certificates of Cures performed by it are and of late have been publickly Advertised, hopeing that from thence, as well as from what has been here advanced throughout this Little Essay, my Reader will together with me be throly convinced and Satisfied, of the great Virtue and Efficacy of this Admirable NECKLACE. Advertisement. JUST published and is Given Gratis in English or French, to Any one that will but ask for it, at Mrs. Garways at the Royal Ex- change Gate next Cornbill; At Mr. Coopers, a Toy shop the cor- ner of Charles-Court near Hungerford-Market in the Strand: And at the Place where this Essay Is Given away: The 16th Edition Dedicated so Dr. Chamberlaine, of The Practical Scheme of Se- cret Injuries and Broken Constitutions by former ill Cure vations, and Mercury: by which any Person may privately cure them- selves without Telling their Case to any one. FINIS