An EASIE and SAFE 
METHOD
For Curing the 
King's Evil
With several Observations of Diet, Air, 
&c. which may be of Use and Service to 
People afflicted with that Distemper. 
To which is added, a Specimen of Success, 
in a faithful Relation of many extraordina- 
ry Cures, (Viz. Strumous Ulcers, Sore Eyes, 
and Scrophulous Consumptions) on Men, 
Women, and Children. 
In a Letter to a Friend. 
The Tenth Edition.
By WILLIAM VICKERS, M.A. 
The Lord hath created Medicines out of the Earth, 
and he that is wise will not abhor them, and 
hath given Men Power and Skill, that he might 
be honour'd in  his marvellous Works, Ecclus. 
xxxviii. 4, 6. 
Exislimo Deum perfecte & sufficienter in Sim- 
plicibus composuisse completa morborum 
quorumcunque remedia. - Felix ille qui 
Simplicibus tuto atque prompre novit tolle- 
re & conculcare morbos. Hermont. 
LONDON: 
Printed, and Sold by A. Collins, at the Black 
Boy, against St. Dunstan’s Church, in Fleet- 
street, and at the Author’s House in Sher- 
bourn-lane, near Lombard-Street. 1716. 



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An EASIE and SAFE 
METHOD 
FOR 
CURING 
THE 
King’s Evil &c. 
SIR, 
IN Compliance with your late Re- 
quest, I have sent you a short Account 
of my Method for curing the King’s 
Evil: A Distemper, you know, I was 
from my Infancy extremely afflicted withal; 
which continued many Years on me, with 
that Violence, that all Hopes of Cure were 
The Author's Condition
given over by my Friends and 
Self. The Distemper had seiz’d 
Upon both my Arms, upon my 
Right Hand, the Fore-Finger of my Left, 
aud also upon both my Feet, to such a De-
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gree, that several Surgeons were of Opini- 
on, that both Hands and Feet must be cut 
off. The Humour likewise fell with that Se- 
verity on both Eyes, that the Sight of each 
was judged irrecoverably lost. In fine, my 
whole Body became so extremely Weak and 
Feeble, with continual Runnings in so ma- 
ny Places, that for many Years I could nei- 
ther go nor stand without Crutches. In this 
miserable Condition, (without any Hopes 
or Prospect of Relief) I lived many Years, 
until it pleased God to direct me to the 
Knowledge of those Means, the extraordi- 
nary Effefts whereof as much exceeded mine 
and all other Peoples Expectations, as the 
Benefit reaped did my Merits; by the Use 
whereof, God be praised, in a very few 
Months, I became perfectly Sound and Well. 
It’s now more than twenty Years since I was 
healed, enjoying as good Health and Sight 
as most People do, without any Fear or Ap- 
prehensions of a Relapse, being able to en- 
dure the coldest Weather, to read until 
Midnight, and to walk as much Ground, e- 
very Day, as the Generality of People do, 
without suffering any Prejudice thereby. I 
once thought (as most People do) that the 
King's Evil, especially in such a high Degree 
as I had it, was incurable; and I had Reason 
to believe it, after many Years Endeavours 
had been spent. for a Cure to so little Pur-
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pose, concluding, that when the Endea- 
vours of many able and skilful Physicians 
had all along proved ineffctual, there re- 
main’d nothing more to be done. As my 
sad Condition made me a diligent 'Enquirer- 
after all Sorts of Remedies; so I never de- 
clined the Use of any Means, which might 
give me the least Hopes of Success. I was 
stroked twice by King Charles II. and thrice 
by King James II. It’s incredible, to tell the 
great Quantities of Purges, Vomits, Diet- 
drinks, Alkalious Medicines, Lime-waters, 
Millipedes, Rue-Whitlow grass, and many other 
things, not excepting Mercurial and Antimoni- 
al Remedies, which I have taken in my Time; 
but nothing avail’d, until it pleas’d God, 
by a wonderful Providence, to direct me to 
the Knowledge of this Specifick, which in its Ef- 
fects exceeded all my Hopes and Expectations. 
And because of some have very high Thoughts 
of the two last named Medicines, (viz. Mer- 
curial and Antimonial,) it may not be impro- 
per to acquaint you that I made several Trials 
thereof, but never reaped the least Benefit or 
Advantage from the Use of either. And I be- 
lieve the King’s Evil is of that peculiar Nature, 
so directly opposite to that Disease where- 
in Mercurials and Antimonials are so much 
used, that it’s no wonder they are so unsuccess- 
fully given, may, sometimes are so very dan- 
gerous in these Scrophulous Tumours; In one 
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Particular I was always very happy, viz. to re- 
ject a Salivation, a Remedy cer- 
tainly worse than the Disease. 
Vid. Dr. Mor-
ton of Con-
sumptions.
p.46.
For where it does not destroy 
Life, it entails so dismal a Train 
of Miseries, as a Man had bet- 
ter be buried alive than suffer. 
Reflections up-
on learning,
p. 222.
For my part, 
I should ever esteem that Man the best Phy- 
sician, who attends to all future 
Consequences; who, (as a cer- 
tain Author saith) does not 
heal one Disease by procuring 
a worse, but restores such a Life as a Man 
can afterwards enjoy with Ease and Safety. 
Eccles. 6. 16.
Perhaps Craftsmen may not like these Re- 
flections;  but herein I act the Part of a
Friend, which a wise Man ac-
counts a very great Blessing; A
faithful Friend is the Medicine
of Life and he that fears the Lord shall find him.
Now in Order to give you some account of 
this Cure on my self; It providentially came
into my Mind, to make Experiment of one
single Remedy, believing that simplicity
of Medicines would be as effectual, as that of
Diet. The Use whereof, first of all I be-
gun internally, with five or six Grains,
Morning and Evening, in a Glass of Spring 
Water; and for external Application, I
us'd an ointment and Cerecloth, made with
the same Remedy. This Method I continu-
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ed Some time; but afterwards with much 
greater Advantage, I infus’d a certain Quan- 
tity of this Specifick Remedy in a Gallon of 
Spring-Water, which, when it was fine 
and clear, became my constant Drink, ab- 
solutely abstaining from all other Liquors, 
except a Glass of Wine now and then, at 
Meals. 
Its Effects.
By that time I had 
drunk of this Specifick Water 18 
or 20 Days, I perceiv’d my 
Sores to run with a much greater Flux of 
Matter than ever I knew them do before. 
Also several foul and rotten Bones, in Seve- 
ral Joints, came forth, without any Pain or 
Trouble. And likewise some hard and un- 
ulcerated Swellings asswaged, and went a- 
way with the like Ease. My Strength also 
increased considerably, and my usual Pains 
(upon any sudden Change of Weather) 
ceased, with such a visible Alteration through- 
out my whole Constitution, that if I may so 
express it, I thought my self, in a Manner, 
new created. 
Two remarka- 
ble Symptoms.
Two Things I 
observed very Strange and un- 
accountable: The First was. 
That whereas my Sores, for the first Month 
or Six Weeks, ran so excessively, that one 
would have thought it impossible to subsist 
under so great a Consumption; yet my 
Strength increased the more; and by how 
much the more plentifully the Humour spent 
it.  


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it self this Way, by so much the more hearty 
and strong I perceiv’d my self to grow. The 
other Thing I observed, was, That my U- 
rine, after some time taking of this Specifick 
Remedy, did become as thick and ropy, as 
if it had been blended with Whites of 
Eggs, or some such like viscous Matter, 
which continu’d until all my Sores healed, 
as they did perfectly in about eight Months, 
or something less. During this Course, 
I never found the least Tendency or Dispo- 
sition unto Sickness, or any other Inconve- 
niency whatsoever, attend the Use of these 
 Means but such a Difference for Ease, that 
there was no Comparison between this Me- 
thod of Cure, and those wherewith I had been 
formerly treated; so easie and pleasant was 
the Operation, and withal so efficacious. 
To give you a rational Account, how this 
Specifick Remedy should effect my Cure af- 
ter such an easie and uncommon Evacuation; 
is, I confess, beyond my Philosophy. The 
Learned Dr. Willis hath, in his Way, ac- 
counted for the secret and hidden Operations 
of Medicines upon Human Bodies, but I find 
no Intimation in his Writings, nor in any 
other Author, of any such Operation as this 
produced; how Nature disposeth Reme- 
dies to effect particular Cures, must be 
no easie Matter to determine, until-we 
are able to penetrate more nicely into 
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Things so remote from our Senses: And 
therefore till such time as I am able to talk 
otherwise than in the vulgar Cant of Thin- 
ning, Rarifying, and Attenuating those Stag- 
nating coagulated Juices, I will be silent 
of those Matters; and shall only observe, 
that in the general I think it may be con- 
cluded, that this Disease may be led, but 
not driven; and that the gentlest Methods 
in any Man’s Hands, will be always likely to 
prove the most successful. Men may sali- 
vate and purge their Guts out, and not move 
it; and yet there may be some Simples and 
Methods of Diet, which will effectually re- 
move it, with infinite less Trouble and Vex- 
ation, than what People commonly undergo 
in these Cases. I can truly affirm, from 
my own Experience, the greater Violence 
I was treated withal by others, by so much 
the worst it fared with me. The same, I very 
well remember, was the usual Complaint of 
all my Fellow-Sufferers, whereof I had a great 
Acquaintance, who are long since expired, 
much the sooner, I fear, for that very Reason. 
The usual Practice in curing the King’s 
Evil, I have observ’d to run (in a Manner) 
chiefly upon Evacuation, with the Use of 
the Decoction of the Woods, and some o- 
ther Simples; which Methods are so gene- 
rally known and fix’d, that if Five Hun- 
dred People were with this Di-
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stemper, and as many Physicians Con- 
sulted, a Man might not only pretty nearly 
guess, what each of them would prescribe; 
but also, what Effects each Person might ex- 
pect from their Prescriptions. But now, as 
this my Specifick Remedy is new and uncom- 
mon, so likewise are its Operations different 
from any Medicines I ever yet knew or heard 
of. For, no sooner is this Remedy incorpo- 
rated with the whole Mass of Blood, but 
the scrophulous Ulcers open like so many 
Flood-Gates, pouring out the Humour with 
a mighty Current, which to every Bodies 
thinking, should rather waste and consume 
the Body, than encrease its Strength and Vi- 
gour. But it proves quite otherwise, for by 
how much the more plentifully the Humour 
spends it self this way, by so much the more 
hearty and strong do People grow: And 
this one thing I look upon as a very reasonable 
indication of a succeeding Cure;  because 
this viscous and stubborn Humour, which 
will not yield to other Evacuations, tho’ ne- 
ver so strong, is hereby thrown out, the 
Way which Nature indicates to disburden 
her self. 
Aphor. 21.
This pass’d for a 
Maxim with Hippocrates; Those 
things (saith he) which are to 
be carried off, are to be drawn whither they most 
incline, through such Ways and Places, as are 
fittest for Conveyance and Expulsion. Herein
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consists one great Secret of Physick, In right- 
ly judging when it’s necessary and safe to eva- 
cuate, and in distinguishing by what Ways and 
Methods it ought to be done; if we mistake in 
either, instead of preserving the Sick, we 
may destroy him, saith the late Dr. Paxton. 
And methinks, it should easily be allow’d, 
that to promote a regular Secretion of the 
Morbisick Matter in those Places where Na- 
ture hath determin’d to empty her self, is 
the most rational and safest Method for era- 
dicating this Disease, Sometimes this Speci- 
fick Remedy will precipitate this Humour, 
and bring it away by Urine also. Which, 
as the Divine Hippocrates hath elsewhere ob- 
serv’d, is a good Sign of a Succeeding Cure. 
After a few Days takings of this Specifick 
Remedy, either in Specie, or dissolved in any 
proper Vehicle, I have therewith brought 
several of these knotty and hard Swellings to 
speedy Suppuration, which before would not 
yield to the strongest Cataplasms, Poultices, 
and the other tribe of greasie Emollients. 
And moreover, where the foulness of the 
Bones have not been suspected, by taking 
of this Remedy they have perforated the 
Skin, and scaled without Pain and Trou- 
ble. The Glands, they say, are the. Seats of 
the King’s Evil, swelled and enflamed with a 
viscous and ropy Matter. If so, it must in all 
Reason be allowed that a Medicine whose im-
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mediate Operations are upon these secretory 
Vessel,  must needs be of prime Use and 
Advantage in this Case, since it affects no 
others Places but the distemperate Parts.
Nat. Hist.
p. 168. Exper.
692.  
Wise Physicians (saith the 
Lord Bacon) should with all 
Diligence enquire what Reme- 
dies Nature yieldeth; having 
extreme subtle Parts, without any Mordica- 
tion or Acrimony; for they (saith he) under- 
mine that which is hard, they open that 
which is stopp'd and shut, and they expel that 
which is offensive gently without too much
Phar. Extemp.
p. 88 
Perturbation. And the ingeni- 
ous Dr. Tho. Fuller saith, that 
Specificks are found, by Experi- 
ence, to have Respect to one 
Part more than another; that a Medicine 
may strike a particular Impression on one 
Humour, and not touch another; Whereof 
the Dr. gives us many Instances. 
P. 336.
And there- 
fore (saith the Doctor in ano- 
ther Place) tho' the fashionable
Opinion of late Tears runs, that 
there is no such things as Electives, respecting 
one Humour more than another, yet irrefragable 
Experience proves other wise to the very Senses.
Course of chi-
mistry, p. 639.  
‘ Some People have denied the 
‘ Efficacy of Specificks opera- 
‘ ting on particular Humours, 
‘ (faith Monsieur Lemery) but
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‘ by small Observation in the Practice of 
‘ Physick, one may soon perceive their differ 
‘ rent Effects. And tho’ the Practice of 
‘ Physick did not prove it, yet the Rules of 
‘ Chymistry are a demonstration of it. 
‘ For seeing the different Nature of Sub- 
‘ stances upon which we make Experiments, 
‘ require different Disolvents, we have 
‘ good reason to conclude the same of 
‘ those Humours of the Body, which are of 
‘ a different Nature.' And indeed the Suf- 
frages of all our eminent Physicians and Na- 
turalists do agree, that Remedies might be 
found to act more directly upon some parti- 
cular Parts and Humours, than upon others.
Advance-
ment of Lear-
ning, P. 196
Which, as the Lord Bacon tru- 
ly observes, is the Cause why 
Empericks and old Women are 
more happy many times, in their 
Cures, than Learned Physicians; because they 
are faithful and steady to those approv'd Medi- 
cines, which they have found out for particular 
Diseases; and therefore, saith he, it would 
be Matter of good Consequence, if some Phy- 
sicians of Note for Learning and Prastice, 
would compile a Work of Probations and ex- 
perimental Medicines for the Cure of particular 
Diseases. No doubt, saith the same Author, 
if Physicians, letting Generalities go for a while, 
and suspending their Assent thereto, would make 
their Approaches to Nature, they might be- 
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come Masters of that Art whereof the Poet speaks. 
Et quoniam variant morbi variabimus artes, 
Mille mali Species mille salutis erunt. Ovid. 
But at present so far otherwise is the State 
of Physick, that in the common Practice, 
those Remedies, which by a Specifical Pro- 
priety respect the Cures of particular Dis- 
eases, are very few; nay, in a Manner, 
quite lost. Some Men of late Years dedu- 
cing the Causes of all Distempers from those 
Two giddy Notions of Alkaly and Acid, have 
put their indications of curing all Distempers 
upon that Foot, tho' at the same Time, they 
are wholly ignorant what Acid produceth any 
Disease, or what Alkaly removes it. Pliny 
says, we are ignorant of what we live upon; 
but in my Opinion, we are less acquainted 
with that which makes us sick. Daily Expe- 
rience convinceth us, that our Constitutions 
are injur’d by a thousand Things which are 
neither Acid nor Alkaly, nor any thing like 
them: And, on the contrary, that many 
Distempers are cur’d by those very Things, 
whick according to our Reason and Way of 
Thinking, are directly opposite to the very 
Nature of the Disease: We see 
Contraries often prove Remedies 
to one another in the Juices and 
Poisons become beneficial, when
oppos'd to certain Humors; the World has 
lately
Dr. Fuller, 
Med. Gym-
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lately had full Evidence of the good Effects of 
an intense Cold, equally apply'd to all the Parts 
of the Body at once; which Method of Curing, 
some Years ago, was thought very extravagant, 
and certainly destructive. 
From the extraordinary Effects of this 
Specifick Remedy, one might easily raise a 
new Hypothesis for this Distemper, but after 
all the Pains one should lay out upon it, it 
might perhaps be as untrue and as unservice- 
able as any already given. Our Knowledge be- 
ing founded on our Senses, and our Senses un- 
able to discover the minute Instruments that 
Nature employs in her ordinary Operations: 
It’s impossible for us to trace the immediate 
Causes of those Things of whose reality we 
cannot form any true Idea; and therefore 
those Fictions of curing Acid Humours, by 
effectual * Alkalious Medicines, may serve 
* This alone (speaking of Acids and Alkalies) will 
make us sufficiently sensible how true an Explication of 
Nature we are to expect from those Men, who upon the 
Doctrine of Acids and Alkalies form Theories, not on- 
ly in Chymistry, but also in Physick, when they don’t 
so much as understand the Terms they make use of - 
Dr. Friend's Chymical Lectures, p. 15. The Champions 
for Alkalious Medicines ignominiously reproach Acids 
as the Cause of all the Miseries that disquiet the Healths 
of Men, whilst the Defenders of Acids load Alkalies 
with the same Ignominy. But the test is, neither of 
these Combitants have as yet proved the real Existency of 
either of these Principles in the Blood. Dr. Paxton, 
Specimen Physico, Medicum, p. 171. 
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well enough for a Time to amuse and de- 
ceive the Vulgar, but Men of Learning and 
Enquiry know very well, that there are no 
such Principles to be found in the Parts and 
Humours of Animals, until they have passed 
the Fire: And what strange Alterations and 
Impressions are made by that Element, is 
obvious to all People experienced in Chymi- 
stry. It’s an easie Matter to imagine this or 
that; Humour to be the Cause of any parti- 
cular Distemper, and to form Methods of 
Cure upon such Conjectures, but Nature, 
who best knoweth her own Wants and Grie- 
vances, is not easily managed by such Devi- 
ces. She will be served in her own Way, 
and needeth no other Assistance for her Pre- 
servation against all Assaults, but a prudent 
Application of those Remedies she hath e- 
very where provided, suitable to each Com- 
plaint. If Providence had not thus order’d 
Things, what must become of the first In- 
habitants of the World, and of those Peo- 
ple now living in many Places, who have no 
Physicians, Philosophy nor Medicines to heal 
their Sicknesses, but such as are vulgarly 
known among themselves, and approved by 
their own Experience and Observation? In 
antient Babylon, great and Populous as it was, 
no Physicians were known, nor other Me- 
thods for curing Distempers, than those 
gain'd by every, Man’s own Experience and 
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Enquiry, Artem experientia fecit, exemplo 
monstrante viam. Manilius. 
For my Part, I shall never trouble my self 
much about the Cause, what it is, or from 
whence it comes, so long as God hath en- 
abled me to remove it; and I very well re- 
member, that when I applied my self to o- 
thers for Cure, they of all Men had the 
worst Success in their Practice upon me, 
who professed to have a clear and perfect 
Knowledge of the Origin; their fine Reason- 
ings, and nice Speculations, after a long 
Course of painful Experiments, ended only 
in grievous Disappointments. If the most 
learned Men have not explained several Phæ- 
nomena in Nature, why should I reason a- 
bout a Thing as difficult to the full, and per- 
haps wholly inexplicable. Many Diseases 
are of that hidden and abstruse Nature, work- 
ing out their Effects by secret Ways, and so 
remote from human View, that oftentimes 
the most learned Physicians have not been able 
to determine the immediate Cause with that 
Certainty, but that others have as strenuous- 
ly opposed it: In this Disease, particularly, 
I believe I could cite twenty different Opi- 
nions, out of Authors, each of them pe- 
remptorily asserting the Cause and the 
Cure from their own Hypotheses. And I 
once knew a young Gentleman with a 
Swelling under his right Jaw, who 
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* ended his Life before his Physicians 
could end the Dispute among themselves, 
whether the Tumor was Scrophulous or 
not. 
It’s somewhat strange, a Disease every 
where so common, should admit of any 
Doubt or Dispute, when the very Complexi- 
on (without any other Sign) is a clear Indi- 
cation, but sometimes so it is. I knew 
a young Lady much afflicted with Pains 
in her Head, attended with great dim- 
ness of Sight, which I suspected to be the 
King's Evil, but her Relations slighted my 
Judgment: When she was dead, her Head 
being open’d, it appear’d that her Brain was 
in a manner consumed, and the inward Ta- 
ble of her Scull carious. I saw likewise a 
Child open’d about 12 or 13 Years of Age, 
whose Liver and Lights were highly Scro- 
phulous, and yet when living she had no out- 
ward Signs of any such Distemper. A Gen- 
tleman sent two of his Sons out of Ireland to- 
Westminster School, they seem’d both health- 
ful Youths: but soon after the Elder of them 
grew indispos’d with a Cough, and died ta- 
bid; his Body being open’d, his Lungs were, 
* Neque enim Si veritas esset inventu facilis tot ac-
lonli viri iti ea quorenda occupati, in tam contrarias, 
sectias suissent unquam dispertiti.  Paracelsus.
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discover’d full of Strumæ. Dr. Walter Need- 
ham, in one of his Lectures at Surgeon's-Hall, 
declares, “ He had seen a strumous Swelling 
“ hanging at the Cone of the Heart, the 
“ Weight of two Ounces. 
The Beginnings of these Scrophulous Tu- 
mours, I have observ’d, are so very small, 
that their first Appearances are scarcely dis- 
cernable, but by Degrees (some sooner, o- 
thers later) they will encrease to a very large 
Size, and become as hard as Flints, whereof 
I have seen several Instances: And what is 
more strange, these Glandelous Swellings 
are nourished and supplied with Juices di- 
stinct from the Blood, fixed in determinate 
Seats, defended and wrapped up in their pro- 
per Coats and Vessels. A Process of Nature 
widely different from those Notions and Ac- 
counts hitherto given us of this Distemper. 
And whereas it’s generally thought that Chil- 
dren have this Distemper only by Inheri- 
tance; I have known many afflicted there- 
with, where no Hereditary Contagion could 
reasonably be suppos’d. And many grown 
Persons do acquire the King’s Evil by exter- 
nal Accidents, viz. Blows, Bruises, Compres- 
sions, Wrenches of the Hip, Knee, Ancle, and
many other Joints, in whom there was ne- 
ver any such Thing as a Corrosive Acidity, 
in the first Digestion, nor any Thing like it 
elsewhere. I have seen a Woman with two 
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of these strumous Swellings, the Bigness of a 
Turkey’s Egg, as hard as Flints, under her 
Jaws, who solemnly protested to me, that 
both those Swellings came in a Night’s Time, 
and that when she went to Bed, she was as free 
of them as any Woman living. In my Ob- 
servations I have seen more People subject to 
this Distemper after the Small-Pox, than 
before; and generally speaking, by how 
much the more healthful and active Children 
are, the more are they liable to the King’s Evil. 
And yet their Blood (which to the World 
may be a Paradox) shall sometimes have 
treble the Quantity of Volatile Salt in Com- 
parison of others, which probably may be 
the cause of its Corruption. Whatever 
therefore some Men may boast of their ex- 
traordinary Skill in occult Causes, or as one 
of them saith, that, “ The first Step towards 
“ the Removal of a Disease, is to know its O- 
“ rigin. ” Their Imaginations hitherto are 
wild Visions, like the Philosopher’s Stone, 
R 61.
or the universal Medicine. “ Parent Na- 
“ ture, saith Dr. Sydenham, ac- 
“ complishes the Generation of all 
“ things, which at any time she 
“ brings to light from the Bosom of Causes, by 
“ most certain Rules, only known to her self, 
“ and hides their Essence, Quiddities, and con- 
“ stitutive Differences, in the greatest Obscu- 
“ rity. And therefore, saith he, The Cure 
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“ of most Diseases are not performed by the 
“ Knowledge of their occult Causes, but by a 
“ proper Method approved by Experience. ” 
What repeated Experience recommends to 
us for a Truth, on that we may always- 
safely depend. Men hatch a 
great many Speculations in their 
Closets, which when they 
come to practice, they find them no better 
than Dreams of a deluded Imagination.
Baglivi, M.D. 
Sola Remedia sanant said good old Celsus.
One good Remedy is preferable to all the 
Hypotheses and plausible Conjectures in the 
World. And therefore, what Sir Robert 
Tabor said to the French King’s Physicians, 
when, in a scoffing manner, they demanded 
of him what was the Cause of a Fever, I 
think was very ingenious, and more to the 
Purpose than any other Answer whatsoever: 
A Fever (quoth he) is a Disease you do not 
know how to cure, but I do. Provided we 
know Peoples Tempers and Constitutions, 
and those good and bad Symptoms peculiar- 
ly incident to each Distemper, as also which 
of the Non-Naturals do us good, and which 
of them do injury, and have but proper 
Remedies to apply, we need not, I think, 
busie our selves much about secret Causes. 
However, thus much is certain, that this 
Distemper is not curable in a natural way, 
by any other Means but by inward Appli- 
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cations, whether Specificks or otherwise; 
there is no Possibility of destroying its Ef- 
fects, but by removing the Cause; neither 
Topical Medicines nor Manual Operations will 
avail to any lasting Purpose, if the Humour 
be not thoroughly eradicated Whoever 
knoweth any thing of the ancient Practice of 
Physick and Surgery, cannot but be sensible, 
that in all such Cases their first and chiefest 
Applications were Vulnerary Potions; the in- 
genious Paul Barbette declares this Distemper 
only curable by Internals; and the Learned 
Bartholine (tho' a Surgeon) is of the same 
Mind. ‘ Struma (saith Cornelius Celsus) have
‘ always given much Trouble and Vexation 
‘ to Surgeons, because, saith he, after the 
‘ best Care and Methods have been apply’d 
‘ for their Extirpation, they are found to 
‘ gain a new Birth.’ In my self, and like- 
wise in divers other Persons, I have known 
these Tumours laid open by Incision, and the 
Glands quite consumed with Escharoticks. 
And yet afterwards the same Humour hath 
broken out a fresh with greater Violence; 
which plainly sheweth, there is no conquer- 
ing this Adversary without the inward Ap- 
plications of some special Medicine, able to 
extinguish the Cause ( whatever it be) 
throughout the whole Body. I have known 
some People afflicted with this Distemper, 
whose Plaisters would not stick, but drop off
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after their taking this Specifick Liquor and 
Powder for some time; and others, where 
the Disease hath violently seized their Eyes, 
their Inflamations and Soreness to decrease 
by its inward Application only, which is a 
plain Confirmation of the Truth of this 
Maxim, common among Physicians, Sublata 
causa tollitur effectus. 
After I had fully experienced the Excel- 
lency and Usefulness of this Medicine in my 
own Case, I thought my self obliged, in 
Point of Charity, to make it publick; that 
others, if they pleas’d, might reap the same 
Benefit by it, as, blessed be God, I had done. 
And tho’ I do not pretend to make any new 
Discoveries concerning the Cause or Produc- 
tion of this Disease; yet, I conceive, I have 
some Reason to esteem my self capable of 
helping those who at any time shall desire 
my Assistance. For, besides the Knowledge 
(which God hath blessed me with) of this 
Specifick Remedy, I have likewise gain’d some 
other Skill from my past Sufferings, which 
I reckon may be very conducive to the Cure 
of this Distemper. I hope, for Instance, I 
am able to give a satisfactory Account, what 
Tumours are scrophulous, and what are not. 
I know as well the Temper and Constitution 
of People afflicted with the Evil, as I did 
my own, and can easily tell when they will 
suffer Pain, and when not; when their Sores
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will run little or much; at what Seasons 
their Swellings will rise or fall; and when 
they will break; and the like. Of these 
Things I have given a satisfactory Account, 
Montogne's
Essays. 
as divers People will bear 
me Witness. Physick (as a 
certain Author hath long since 
observed) doth always profess 
to have Experience for the Proof of its Ope- 
rations. And it was Plato’s Opinion, that 
in order to be a true Physician, a Man should 
first suffer all those Diseases he pretended to 
cure, and pass thro' all those Accidents and 
Circumstances he was to judge of in others.
This, I must confess, is a severe Position; 
and if no Man were to practice but upon 
these Conditions, I fancy, Physick would 
have but few Professors; tho’ doubtless, the 
best Knowledge is ever gain’d by a Man’s 
own Experience and Observation, which, 
as Celsus observes, Is the princi- 
pal Thing to inform Men in a 
right Method of Cure. 
Aphr.10
Sect. 9. 
Misc. p. 103
‘ Of all Sorts of Instructions, 
‘ (saith Sir William Temple) the 
‘ best are gain’d from our own 
‘ Thoughts and Experiences; for tho’ a 
‘ Man may grow learned by other Men’s 
‘ Thoughts, yet he will become wise or 
‘ happy only by his own. Those Remarks 
and Observations which I made of Things
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hurtful or beneficial to me in the Way of 
Living, afforded me much better Light to- 
ward my Cure, than all the Instructions I 
had seen in Physical Authors.
The Usefulness 
of Diet.
Hipp. de Di-
æta.
Diet, for Instance, was a Thing 
from whence I received a consi- 
derable Benefit; a Part of Phy- 
sick of that Importance, that 
Hippocrates, and all other Phy- 
sicians, do testifie a very great 
Regard unto it, as a Thing principally condu- 
cive to the Cure of most Diseases. It is im- 
possible, saith Galen, that the Humours should 
not partake of the Substance and Qualities which 
the Food had before it was eaten; the Truth 
whereof we learn by every Day’s Experience, 
from those ill Effects of an improper Diet: In 
some measure among the Healthy, but 
more especially among the Diseased, it often 
produceth those Mischiefs in a few Hours, 
which several Months shan’t be able to re- 
trieve; and therefore it’s a Matter of great 
Importance, that diseased Persons be well 
advised in their Diet; which some of the an- 
tient Physicians reputed the Origin of good 
or bad Temperaments. And herein I think 
my self not unqualified, to give those neces- 
sary Directions, which, if observ’d, would 
prove of very great Use and Service to Per- 
sons afflicted with this Evil Humour: Good 
Management, in this Respect, I find, (tho’
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it will not absolutely cure this Disease) is 
highly useful, and very efficacious, to aid 
and assist, and to give an Energy to the Ope- 
ration of proper Medicines. 
And of Air.
Another Thing, which, by my own Expe- 
rience, I found to have a commanding Power 
in this Distemper, in giving Pain 
or Ease, was the Quality or Dis- 
position of the Air *: Wherein 
I was so critical in my Observations, that upon 
the least Turn or Change of the Weather, I 
knew as well what I was to expect, as if a 
Messenger before-hand had given me Warn- 
ing. And whosoever undertakes the curing 
of this Disease, will find such natural Obser- 
vations of great Use, not only to direct him 
in the Cure, but also to prevent Perturbati- 
ons of Mind, in those who labour under 
this Distemper, arising from its Ebbings and 
Flowings, which, indeed, are very sudden 
and surprizing. If any one thinks these and 
such like Observations are Trifles, let him 
enjoy his Opinion: In the mean time it’s 
* Most People are of the Opinion the Moon hath a 
very great Influence upon this Distemper, but according 
to my Experience and Observation on my self, and like- 
wise upon other People, I find the Sun hath the much 
greater Power; the Truth whereof I could manifest from 
divers Examples, if brevity did not oblige me to omit 
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my Judgment, whoever carelesly neglects 
these Things, will have no great Success 
with this Distemper.
Hip. Aphor.
Sect. 3. p. 44.
The Di- 
vine Hippocrates hath in several 
of his Aphorisms, fully shewed 
the Usefulness of such Observations, to di- 
rect Men in their Methods of curing Dis- 
eases. Change of Seasons are the most effectual 
Causes of Diseases, and so are the Alterations 
of Cold and Heat in those Seasons, and other 
Things proportionable. If distemper'd People 
observed these Things, they would not 
blame their Physicians in many things 
when the Cause is purely owing to the Wea- 
ther. Neither would others upon every 
little Indisposition, subject themselves to 
Physick and Phlebotomy, when a contrary 
Position of the Air would set them right.
Page 65. 
The Ingenious Dr. Wainewright, 
in his Book of Non-Naturals, 
hath clearly demonstrated what 
great Alterations are made in our Bodies, 
according to the various Changes of the Air; 
and affirms that from such Notice, better In- 
dications may be taken both for the Preven- 
tion and Cure of most Diseases, than from 
any other Source whatsoever.
Dr. Keil of
Animal Secre-
tion 
The Animal 
Oeconomy (saith a late ingenious 
Author, with great Truth) is 
it self a considerable Part of Na- 
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are so strongly influenced by Variety of Diets, 
and so many other Things without, that, in- 
deed, the whole Study of feature seems to be 
useful to him that would understand it. Hero- 
dotus, an ancient Author, tells us, that in 
Egypt Physicians were obliged to apply them- 
selves to the Study and Improvement of but 
some one Disease. Every Physician, saith 
he, hath one Disease for his Pro- 
vince, and no more, &c. The 
Lib. 2. Sect.
82
Design whereof, doubtless, was 
very good, and of great Use to the Repub- 
lick of Physick: Because hereby Physicians 
acquir'd a more certain and perfect Know- 
ledge of the Nature and Disposition of par- 
ticular Diseases, and of things hurtful and 
beneficial in each Distemper; and conse- 
quently, were better able to fence against all 
ill Accidents and Revolutions arising from 
the various Changes of the Weather, or im- 
proper Diets, and many evil Habits, where- 
unto each Disease hath a direct Tendency. 
The Works of those very great Men, Dr. 
Sydenham, and Dr. R. Morton, are undeni- 
able Instances of the Advantages the World 
might enjoy from the Physician's more espe- 
cial Application of his Thoughts and Studies 
to the Nature and Cure of some particular 
Disease. The noble Improvements they ar- 
rived at in this way, the one with Respect 
to Fevers, and the other to Consumptions. 
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make one justly wonder, that among so many 
Ingenious and Learned Men of that Professi- 
on, there have been so few who have at- 
tempted to follow their Steps in other Cases. 
“ If one Physician (saith Dr. Sydenham) had 
“ treated but of one Disease, the Art of 
“ Healing had by this Time come to as great 
“ Perfection as our mortal Conditions would 
“ allow of. 
The Divine Hippocrates formed his Pra- 
ctice from Experience and Observation on 
particular Diseases. To understand the Art of 
Physick, is to know throughly the peculiar Con- 
stitution of every Season, what there is generally 
good and bad in each Man's Distemper, the 
State and Crisis of every Disease, to whom, when 
and how, Victuals must be given. He that knows 
and makes a right Use of these 
thing's, cannot be mistaken in the 
3 Epid. 3
p. 156
Aphor. 13.
p.236
Art of Healing. To the same
Purpose speaketh Cornelius Cel-
sus; Neither ought the Physician 
to be ignorant of the Nature and 
Constitution of the Patient, whe-
ther his ‘Body be moist or dry, whether strong or 
infirm, whether seldom or often sick, &c. Of 
these Particulars, I take all possible Care to 
inform my self, from every Person With 
whom l am concern’d, and should be glad, 
if Persons labouring under this Distemper, 
living in remote Parts, When they write to 
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me, would send an exact Account of their 
peculiar Habits of Body, in what Parts they 
are afflicted, and how long.
The same Ef-
fect generally
common to all
other people. 
As I judged these no improper Qualifica- 
tions for one who undertook to help others, 
so, Blessed be God, I have met with an an- 
swerable Success. As I treat others, as I did 
my self, so I find the very 
same common Effects. Their 
Sores run with the same Flux 
of Matter upon taking this Spe- 
cifick Remedy as mine did. 
Those painful Operations of Cutting, Caute- 
rizing, and the like, (which one of the great- 
est Surgeons, we have had, long since declar’d, 
were more fatal and dangerous than the Dis- 
ease it self) are by the inward Application 
of this Specifick Remedy rendred useless and 
unnecessary. And I reckon it a great Hap- 
piness, that in this Case I can exfoliate foul 
and carious Bones, without inflicting those 
Torments attending manual Operations. I 
have a Box of Scales and foul Bones, the 
largest that ever was seen, driven out by 
this Anti-Strumatick Liquor. Their Urine 
likewise I have frequently observed as thick 
and ropy as my own used to be; and tho' 
they are never so Weak and Lame, yet I 
always find their Strength daily increasing, 
as mine did. It’s a common Complaint a- 
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made of Guiacum, Sarsaphras, Mizerion, and 
the like, for any Time; that these Remedies 
spoil their Stomachs, and burn them up with 
Feverish Heats: But this Specifick hath quite 
contrary Effects, wonderfully invigorating 
the Spirits, preserving the Appetite, and re- 
storing it when lost; and is of that mundify- 
ing, healing, drying Quality, that some inve- 
terate Ulcers have been cured therewith by 
an outward Application only. For sore, 
weak, and enflamed Eyes, or where the 
Sight is obstructed with Mists, Clouds, Films, 
and Pearls, there is no better Ophthalmick in 
the World. Neither did I ever know this Hu- 
mour break out afresh upon any Person cur’d 
by this Method, no more than it hath done 
with me above these Twenty Years past; the 
Truth whereof I can make appear by a Cloud 
of Witnesses, from their own Experience. 
Neither do I encourage People to enter upon 
this Method of Cure, if I have not some 
Hopes and Prospect of Success. 
It’s hard to say positively, who are curable, 
and who are not; this last Year I cured a Man, 
and Six of his Children, before I was able 
to effect any good on a young woman, (in ap- 
pearance not near so bad) in the same Neigh- 
bourhood. Perfect and absolute Cures in all 
Cases cannot be expected, because, as Celsus 
observes, Causes and Constitutions are so vari- 
ous, that we loose our Selves Sometimes in those 
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very Accidents whereof we seem to have the 
greatest Certainty and Experience. And there- 
fore, saith he, ‘ Confidence and Presumpti- 
‘ on in the Art of Physick, are the true Cha- 
‘ racteristicks of Quacks and Medical Impostors. 
So far as I am able to judge from the large 
Experience I have had, first on my self, and 
now upon others, one of the greatest Diffi- 
culties in making a compleat Cure of this 
Distemper in most People, with this Me- 
thod, is Length of Time, which many have 
not Patience to submit unto, not considering 
the Stubbornness of this Disease, above all o- 
thers that Nature being brought very low, 
and worn out, in a manner, with a long Du- 
ration of the Illness, together with the ema- 
ciating Methods in common Use, cannot so 
soon accomplish the Conception and Despu- 
mation of the Morbifick Matter, as they 
could wish: It is in this Disease, as in all o- 
ther Chronical Distempers, the Cause is 
passed into a Habit, aud is become, as it 
were, a second Nature. And therefore it 
cannot be expected, that some small and 
short Alteration super-induced upon the 
Blood and Humours by any sort of Remedy 
or Diet can perfect a Cure: Since the whole 
Habit of Body must be changed, and the 
whole Man (if I may so express it) must be as 
it were new created. For want of considering 
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other Medicines, but with so little Advan- 
tage, that they oftentimes run themselves 
into greater Evils; according to that Obser- 
vation, long since deliver’d by the Lord Ba- 
con, That as Variety of Medicines 
is the Off-spring of Ignorance, so 
many Medicines have caused few 
Cures. 
Natural Hist. 
of Life and 
Death. 
When Men talk of variety of Medicines and 
Methods of Cure; ‘ As necessary to answer all 
‘ those several Symptoms and Indications, 
‘ which this or any other Distemper may re- 
‘ quire, tho’ their Arguments be plausible, and 
‘ perhaps sometimes true,’ viz. When there 
is a different Cause for those various Symp- 
toms: Yet, as it often cometh to pass, that 
different Symptoms proceed from one and 
the same Cause, so whatever Angle Remedy 
will effectually remove that: Cause, will as 
certainly remove the several Symptoms or 
Effects thereof. Few Diseases for Instance 
shew themselves in a greater variety of 
Forms, or are attended with more various 
Symptoms than Fevers and Agues; and yet 
the Cortex prudently exhibited, will take off 
all those different Symptoms without the As- 
sistance of any other Applications. So also 
in Venereal Cases, Patients have many diffe- 
rent Complaints, which seem to indicate 
different Applications; but yet it’s evident 
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als skilfully administred, all those numerous 
Grievances come to an end. By Parity of 
Reason therefore, altho’ nothing more com- 
mon than Fevers, Consumptions, violent Pains, 
&c. among Persons afflicted with the King’s 
Evil; yet as these are not Distempers arising 
from different Causes, but the real Effects 
of one and the same, what need is there of 
multiplying Remedies for the removal there- 
of? I have seen Multitudes of People (young 
and old) afflicted with this Distemper, but 
could never observe any remarkable diffe- 
rence of Temper or Constitution, or any 
considerable Variation of Symptoms among 
them, otherwise than what the Disease na- 
turally produceth in common. True it is, 
when the Course of these Humours are con- 
trouled otherwise than Nature designed; 
when that peccant Matter is recalled back in- 
to the Blood which Nature had thrown off 
to the Extremities of the Body, no wonder 
if such poor Wretches are almost destroyed 
with Stomach Sicknesses, (Gripes, Faintings, 
and a large Troop of other irregular Symp- 
toms, more grievous than the Evils intend- 
ed to be removed: In such Cases (which are 
but too common) the Life of the Patient 
may be in hazard, which before was in no 
danger, since that Art which should follow the 
Directions of Nature, is otherwise employed to 
thwart her Endeavours, by a rash Application, of
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Medicines. To these Observations I may 
add another of equal Truth, that the most 
authentick Evidences of a Man’s curing this 
or any other Disease, are not sufficient to 
satisfie some People prepossess’d with Preju- 
dices; so that if a Man were morally certain 
of curing any one Distemper, yet he would 
find it a difficult Point to convince some, 
tho’ he produc’d an hundred Instances of his 
Success. And the Reason may be this, be- 
cause Physicians, and those depending on 
them, have in all Places so bitterly run down 
all Persons and Things, exclusive of their own 
Knowledge and Practice, that People think 
there’s no Balm in Gilead but 
what’s in their Hands. And
yet Physicians have acknow-  
ledg’d that the Art of Healing was originally 
derived from such Experiments as were not 
all made by Physicians* Nay sometimes 
Hist. of Phys.
pag. 4.
* If any Credit may be given to Pliny, we shall have no 
reason to boast of the Invention of Physick, two great 
Operations in that Art having been owing to two inconsi- 
derable Creatures, viz Bleeding and Purging; the first 
to Hippopotamus, a River-Horse; the latter to Ibis, a 
small Bird in Egypt. 
The Natives (saith Monsieur Pomet) found out the 
Virtue of the Balsam Capivi, by means of certain 
Hogs in those Parts, who presently when they were 
wounded) would strike their Teeth against the Trunks of 
these Trees, from whence the Balsam would flow out in- 
to their Wounds;  and this they would continue till they 
were perfectly well. History of Drugs, p. 208.
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(say they) the Fowls of the Air, and the 
Beasts of the Field, have by the Exercise of 
their natural Instincts directed considering 
Men to such Medicines, as without such In- 
dications perhaps their Reason and Skill would 
never have brought to light. 
Dict amnum genitrix cretæa carpit ab Ida 
Puberibus caulem foliis & flore comantem 
Purpureo, non illa feris incognita capris 
Gramina cum tergo volucres hæsere Sagittæ. 
Virg. Æn. 12. 
As for my Pretensions, they are only thus, 
that whereas I had this Distemper in a very 
high Degree, and have, with God’s Blessing, 
been my self cured by this Remedy, and many 
others have received undeniable Benefit there- 
by; I shall honestly apply the same Means to 
any Person that desires it, leaving the Success 
to Almighty God. With this farther Decla- 
ration, for all Peoples Satisfaction, that if this 
Specifick Remedy should not cure them, it will 
certainly do them no Hurt. Not one of those 
many Hundreds that have taken of it, having 
ever complain’d of the least Injury attending 
its Use. 
What ever Exceptions may be made a- 
gainst this Undertaking, for my own Part I 
take all possible Care to make no Man angry 
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to do; refusing all Patients so long as they 
are under the Care of others, whether Physi 
cians or Surgeons, and should be glad to hear 
they meet with good Success elsewhere.
L. 2. p. 239. 
Mr. Serjeant Wiseman de- 
clares, That the Contumacious- 
ness of this Disease had not only 
eluded his best Care and Industry, but also some 
of the ablest Physicians and Surgeons in his Time. 
Chirurgia Cu-
riosa, p. 87. 
To the same purpose speaketh that excellent 
Physician, Dr, Sprengell, in the 
whole Art of Chirurgery, There 
is nothing more troublesome and 
vexatious to the Operator, insomuch that after 
all the Care and Pains that can possibly be em- 
ployed, and the Application of the most approved 
Medicines, yet it is a very great Rarity if he 
procures any Benefit to his Patient.
Mr. Serjeant Wiseman is of Opinion, That 
most of those Diseases mentioned in his Chi- 
rurgical Treatise, do participate of the Evil. 
I know not whether one might entirely 
subscribe to that great Man’s Judgment in the 
Matter ; but this, I believe, must be allow- 
ed, that, with us, very few Families are 
wholly clear of it; so that it’s to be fear'd, 
there will be Work enough for all. And I 
have heard several old, able, and experi- 
enc’d Practitioners declare, that they never 
got any Credit by meddling with this Di- 
stemper; and therefore accounted it no real 
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Injury to their Practice, for any Person to 
free them from that Trouble. 
I know not what Reason some Authors 
have to alledge, that aged People are rarely 
troubled with this Distemper. I have known 
several upwards of Fifty, Sixty, and Seventy 
Years of Age break out in several Places, par- 
ticularly a Woman whom I cured upwards 
of Sixty, who declared to me, that she had 
been always free from any such Complaint 
till she was Fifty Five, or thereabout. It 
is a Disease which spareth neither Peer 
nor Peasant of any Age or Sex whatsoever
“ This Distemper, through Length of Time, as 
“ the Learned Barbette, M.D. and Mr. Ser- 
“ jeant Brown have observed, becometh Can- 
“ cerous." And I have known several of 
these Tumours in Womens Breasts, tho' small 
at first, degenerate into cancerous Ulcers. 
Some Authors affirm, the same Remedies 
which heal the one, will also cure the other. 
But however, the Distemper is of that 
malignant and mischievous Nature, to our 
Bodies, that whoever can propose a safe and 
easie Method of curing or preventing it, one 
might expect should be look’d upon as an 
especial Benefactor to Mankind; for where 
it doth not destroy Life, it often disableth 
People (the whole Course of their Lives) 
from enjoying themselves or others, with 
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by many deplorable Instances, among both 
Sexes, groaning under the Torments of this 
cruciating Tyrant. So that where a Man’s 
Services are manifest and indisputable, ei- 
ther in giving Freedom or Relief from so 
great an Evil, he might reasonably hope to 
merit the Good-Will and Encouragement of 
all Mankind. For my Part, if it were in my 
Power which to choose, I would much rather 
beg my Bread all the Days of my Life, with 
that Portion of Health I now enjoy, than 
endure my former Afflictions with the Wealth 
of the Indies. Health is so great a Blessing, 
that all other Pleasures of Honour and For- 
tune are mere Vanities, and the most exqui- 
site Pleasures tasteless, and even dead with- 
out it: If therefore by any Means, we can 
attain this necessary Comfort of Life, it’s no 
great Matter (I think) who the Persons are 
(next under God) that convey this Blessing 
to us. Where the Means are safe, and war- 
ranted with unquestionable Proofs of Success, 
all other Exceptions are frivolous and tri- 
fling: And yet there are Thousands of Na- 
aman's Opinion, who will choose to suffer any 
Evil, rather than be convinced that there can 
be so much Healing in the Waters of Jordan. 
l am, Sir, 
Yours, 
Sherbourn-Lane, near the 
General Post-Office, in 
Lombard-street.
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A Short 
Specimen of my Success: 
IN A 
Faithful Relation 
Of many Extraordinary 
CURES, 
ON 
Men, Women, and Children, 
Afflicted with the 
King’s Evil. 
The CASE of Charles Welsh. 
IT pleased God in the Island of Jersey, af- 
ter the Small-Pox there, to afflict me in a 
grievous Manner with the King's Evil; first, 
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then with two others on my right Arm; af- 
ter these followed five more on my left 
Shoulder; and lastly, five others on my left 
Arm; whereby I was depriv’d of the Use of 
both Arms, being also so extream weak and 
lame, that I could neither go nor help my 
self. I had all the Advice and Medicines 
that was there possible, particularly was un- 
der a Course of Salivation seven Weeks; 
but these things having no Effect upon me, I 
was remov’d thence into St. Thomas's Hospi- 
tal, where I continu’d several Months; but 
not meeting with that Success in this Place 
neither, which many others have reaped; 
and being discharged, I was by my Friends 
then brought to Mr. Vickers, a Clergyman, 
in Sherbourn-lane, November 26, 1706. who, 
beyond his own, and all other People’s Ex- 
pectations, hath (God be praised) wrought 
a perfect and complete Cure on me, being 
now as sound and healthy as any other Person 
whatsoever. I lodge at a Shoe-maker's, next 
Door to the Cross-keys Inn, Grace-Church- 
street, where may be seen much more of this 
Cure than is here related, by 
Charles Welsh. 
SIR, 
I Send this to acquaint you, that my 
Child, which was blind with the King's 
Evil of both Eyes 3 or 4 Months, is now, by
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God’s Blessing, and those Medicines which 
you sent me, perfectly recover’d. I pray God 
to bless your Endeavours for the Benefit of 
others, as he hath done for mine, who am 
your most obliged, Friend and Servant, 
John Trayhearne. 
Stanstead, Feb. 
21. 17⁰⁸⁄₀₉.
A young Lad, Apprentice to Mr. Col- 
stom, at a Toy-shop against the Royal 
Exchange had the Evil under one of his Jaws, 
whom I  cured in less than six Weeks. As  
also Mrs. J- ’s Daughter, not far from 
the Swan and Hoop Tavern, of many ulcera- 
ted Tumours in her Arm; but her Cure was 
not so speedily accomplished as the former. 
A Practitioner in Physick, of good. Busi- 
ness and Repute, about 30 Miles, di- 
stant from London, afflicted with this Di- 
stemper about 20 Years in several Parts, took 
of my Medicines. What Success they had 
upon him, his own Words in the following 
Letter will testifie. 
Rev. SIR, 
I Have deferr'd Writing to you, to see if the 
Happiness which I now enjoy by your Medi- 
cines was like to last. I thank God I have 
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been well and free from any Symptom of the E- 
vil, above these four Months, and therefore will 
not trouble you for a Supply of your Specifick Re- 
medy until the Spring, when I intend, to renew 
its Application for a Month. The next Month 
I shall be in London, to pay you my Respects 
and hearty Acknowledgments for those great 
Services you have done for me. 
I rest you most obliged
humble Servant. 
Nov. 3. 1707. 
Reverend SIR, 
I Hope you and your good Lady are well. I 
should be glad to see you both at Halstead, 
My Son, (thro' God's Blessing) upon taking your 
Specifick, seems to be very well; he has no 
Kernels left in his Neck, his Eyes have not been 
sore, nor run, nor been gummy for a long time;
but his Sight is as good as ever. He has lately 
taken another Dose of your purging Steel Liquor: 
His usual Drink is now common Table Drink, 
and his Issue runs very well. My Wife would 
know if she may dry that up. There is wonder- 
ful Notice taken in those Parts far and near of 
what you have done for my Child. A Gentle- 
man, on Friday last, that lives some Miles 
from me, was asking me about my Child, where 
you liv'd, how he might speak with you, and, 
what where your Demands I told him you was 
a reasonable Man, and did consider Peoples 
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Circumstances. Who it is that wants your Help 
I know not, but as for this Gentleman, who 
enquired of me about you, he is very well ac- 
quainted with most Persons of Quality in our 
Country, so that if you can accord, it may be 
much for your Advantage. I lent him your 
Book to read, which did mightily please him. 
Mr. Morley of our Town gives you a good Word, 
and you may assure your self I shall not be want- 
ing to manifest your just Praises and Commen- 
dations to all People, My Wife and Son give 
their Services to you. So praying God to bless 
your generous Designs for all Mankind, I rest 
your most humble Servant, 
W.H. 
July, 1710. 
MRS. Lambert's Child ot Islington, had 
very sore Eyes, and breakings out in 
her Arms, I cured her in about six Months. 
Stephen Duport, August 2, 1709. a Youth 
living in Greenwich, was very much af- 
flicted with running Sores under each Jaw. 
I happily cured him in a very short Time, 
with the inward and outward Application of 
my Specifick Remedy. 
THomas Quessingborough, next Door to the 
Three Kings. in Leaden-hall-street, a Youth 
about 12 Years of Age, had a large glandu- 
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lous Tumour in his Neck, which by the in- 
ward Application of my Specifck 
speedily broke, and discharged much filthy- 
Matter, and in a few Month's time healed 
up with little of no Scar. 
MY only Child, aged 9 Years, being 
extremely afflicted with the Evil in 
her Eyes, the Sight of both cover'd with 
thick Films, both Eye-lids swelled that she 
could not move them upwards, and thought 
by many to be past Recovery: I apply'd my 
self, Sept. 16, 1710, to Mr. Vickers in Sher- 
bourn-lane, and only by the internal Appli- 
cation of his Specifick Remedy, her Eyes in 
eight Days time were perfectly recovered; 
and, in all Appearance, she is entirely freed 
from that grievous Distemper. The Truth 
whereof may be known at the Pewterer's 
Shop, next Door to Feathers Court, near Great 
Turn-Stile, Holbourn.  
Tho. Locket. 
March 29, 1711. 
MAY, 1709. A Gentleman, who (like 
many others) was very unwilling it 
should be known that he had the Evil, came 
to me as from another Person. By his Com- 
plection, I judg'd he was not himself free 
from the Distemper, which-upon telling him 
my Thoughts he did not deny; He had se- 
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veral running Sores on his Breast and Shoul- 
ders; and so bad, that it was seven Months 
before they were cured by my Medicine. I 
am engag'd to Secrecy as to his Name, &c. 
but I must do him the Justice, to own he was 
very generous in his Acknowledgments for 
the Service I had done him. 
SIR, 
No longer ago than Wednesday Night last, 
I saw your Patient, Mrs. Elizabeth 
Gillson, who not only looks well, but her Eyes 
[to all Appearance] are as well now as mine;
can see to work with her Needle, without any 
Offence or Trouble to her. She continues the 
taking of your Medicine with great Pleasure and 
Satisfaction. We have a poor Woman in this 
Town about forty Years of Age, miserably afflict- 
ed with the same Distemper from her Cradle;
if you can do her any Good, let me know by the 
next Post; which will oblige your most assured 
Friend and Servant, 
Rector of West- 
Wickham Cam- 
bridgeshire, De- 
cember 2, 1710. 
Allington Harrison. 
This Mrs. Elizabeth Gillson had been 
Blind several Years, with the Evil in her 
Eyes, whose Cure I begun, Sep. 8. 1710.
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THE following Account of my Success 
was sent me by a Divine out of the 
Country, May 4, 1711. Concerning a young 
Lady, who was my Patient but a few Weeks. 
Rev. SIR, 
I Receiv'd yours, which I sent to the young La- 
dy, your Patient, who now, praised he God, 
is very well recover'd of her Distemper, and 
hopes she may continue so; but if otherwise, you 
shall hear the first Post. The Lady gives her 
Thanks and humble Service to you, and So doth 
your most obliged humble Servant, 
Rector of Hickling, 
Nottinghamshire. 
George Fisher. 
Elizabeth Jackson, in Haddenham Bucks, a- 
ged about 32 Years, having several glan- 
dulous Swellings about her Neck, was in a 
little time cured by me. 
A Young Woman of St. Edmund's Bury, 
afflicted with the Evil in both Eyes 
many Years, without any Relief, was by the 
Application of this Specifick Remedy cur'd. 
A Young Woman, of Great Harlow in 
Essex, came to my House, May 23, 
1709. She had several Ulcers in one of her
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Arms, find also a consumptive Habit of Bo- 
dy: Her Cure was tedious, but in Twelve 
Months time it pleas’d God, I did effect it, 
which is very well known to Mr. Bignal, at 
the White Lion, Leaden-halL-street. 
MAry Davage of Greenwich, afflicted with 
the Evil in both her Eyes, many Years, 
whole Sight was in a Manner quite dark with 
Specks upon each Eye, was cured in three 
Weeks time, by taking of this Specifick Pow- 
der in small Beer. The Truth whereof is 
very well known to most People in that 
Place. 
MRS. Thomas’s Child, in Northumber- 
land-Alley, Fanchurch-street, whom I 
cured in three Weeks, was blind with the 
King's Evil. 
Long-Melford, May 13, 1712. 
Rev. SIR,  
I Receiv’d yours, and should have been very 
glad to have seen you at Melford; as the 
Length of the Journey prevents your visiting me, 
so it does my waiting upon you at present: I have 
found every thing you sent me succeed according 
to your Predictions, and exceed, tho' not my 
Hopes, yet my Expectations for, I could not 
have thought I should have receiv’d so much 
Benefit in so short a time. I am now (Blessed
be 

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be God) wholly at Ease, my Sore is healed 
and the Swelling abates: I hope, by continuing 
your Drink it will quite wear away; and as be- 
fore I could not set my Foot upon the Ground, I 
can now walk pretty well without either Crutch 
or Staff, but find the Humours attend my Leg 
still, for it is always more swell'd at Night than: 
in the Morning. I hope in a Fortnights time to 
be at College again. I would have made Lon- 
don my Way thither, and have waited upon you, 
but that I think 'tis a little too far for me at pre- 
sent; but if I continue in Health, I purpose in 
my next Return to Melford, to come round by 
London, and pay my thankful Acknowledgments 
to so good a Benefactor, I had wrote to you. 
sooner, but the continual Pain I was in made 
Writing, and almost every thing else, irksome to 
me. I pray God to prolong your Days, and make 
you the happy Instrument of prolonging the Days 
of others, who labour under the same Affliction.
Your humble Servant, F.B. 
N.B. When I received this Letter, the 
Author had taken the Specifick Remedy but 
one Month. He is long since perfectly well. 
THE honourable Lady Pyne, recom- 
mended a Child to me, about 4 
Years old, severely afflicted with the Evil 
in her Eyes. whom I cured in two Months; 
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the Truth whereof is also known at the Black 
Lyon against Ironmonger-lane, where the Child 
lodged while under my Care. 
ALSO a Gentleman’s Daughter about 6 
Years old, living in the Broad Place, 
Westminster, much afflicted with the Evil in her 
Eyes, Nose, and Lips, cur’d in a short time. 
A Youth at the Black Boy and Still, near 
Shoreditch Church, I cured of very 
weak and sore Eyes. The Truth whereof is 
very well known to the Reverend Mr. Price, 
Schoolmaster of Stoke-Newington. 
HEnry Sprately, a Corporal in Major-Gene- 
ral Holmes's Regiment of Foot-Guards, 
afflicted with many deep and foul Ulcers on 
each side of his Throat, extending from Ear 
to Ear; accidentally meeting with my Book 
at the Surgeon’s House belonging to his Re- 
giment, in Charles-street Westminster, desi- 
red leave to read it over; after which, 
the Man comes directly to my House, 
telling me he was perswaded, if I would 
take him in Hand, that with God’s Blessing 
I could cure him. I bid him first to ask leave 
of his Surgeon Mr. Wilson, and then he 
should be welcome to my Assistance, which 
he soon obtain’d. Accordingly I gave him 
the Specifick Liquor for his constant Drink,
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and Dressings for his Sores, with Instructions 
how to apply them; the Medicines he fetch- 
ed from my House as often as his Necessities 
requir’d. Not hearing of him in 6 Months, 
I concluded he was dead, (cured beyond Re- 
lapse) and therefore the 2d of Feb. 1713. I 
called at his Lodgings, the Cock and Hoop in 
Chancery-lane, to enquire after him, where 
I found the Man in very good Health; his 
Throat as dry and free from Sores as the back 
of my Hand; for my part I had never seen a 
poor Fellow in a worse Condition than this 
Man was. He now liveth at the Queen's 
Head Ale-house, Bell-Alley, near the Temple. 
A Young Man, who had been subject to 
the Evil in his Childhood, was seiz’d 
with a violent Heat and Humour in his Face, 
Neck and Breast, which by repelling Medi- 
cines was driven into his Eyes, attended with 
a great Inflammation and Fluxion. Finding 
the Cause of his complaint, I immediately 
order’d two Issues to be made between his 
Shoulders for a present Revulsion; and obli- 
ged him to drink plentifully of the Specifick 
Liquor, and to wash his Eyes therewith seve- 
ral times in the Day, by which Method I 
preserved his Sight, which probably might 
have been lost in a few Days. People should 
be very cautious how they use repelling or dissol- 
ving Medicines. I knew a Woman directly
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killed, by turning this Humour out of her 
Eyes into her Stomach, as if she had been 
stabb'd. I had nearly lost the Sight of mine 
by the Use of an Eye-water. And I have 
always found it true by my own Experience, 
and likewise by the Testimony of others, 
that those Eyes have always far'd the worst, 
which have been most tamper'd withal by 
outward Remedies. 
Most Diseases in the Eyes are the Kings E- 
vil, which a great many People not suspecting, 
or rather not willing to believe, are frequently 
imposed upon by ignorant and designing Per- 
sons, to the loss of their Sight. So when this Hu-
mour fixeth in any other Parts, such Persons 
taking Advantage of People's Ignorance, or 
Aversions to this Distemper, delude them 
with contrary Perswasions and Practices of- 
tentimes till it's too late to help them by any 
proper Methods whatsoever. I know it hath 
Been suggested to my Prejudice, that I call- 
all Tumours, and Breakings out, the King's 
Evil; This is utterly false; and I challenge 
any to give an Instance, where-ever I said it, 
was the King's Evil, and it proved other- 
wise. 
A Young Woman had many hard Ker- 
nels in one of her Breasts, who by 
drinking of this Specifick Liquor Seven 
Months, became clear of all her Swellings,
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and hath continued so above this Three 
Years. 
MR. Steel's Son, a Watch-Maker, li- 
ving against Grange Court, little Lin- 
coln’s-Inn-Fields, had a large Tumour adhe- 
ring to one of his Eye-lids, which I feared 
might endanger the loss of his Eye, toge- 
ther with a dry Scurf all over his Head; 
his Parents reposing a Confidence in me, 
committed their Son to my Care, April 9, 
1714. and with God’s Blessing, and those 
Endeavours I used, his Cure was effected in 
a short time, the Child ever since continuing 
free from that Humour. 
A Gentleman’s Daughter in Princes- 
street, near Bedford-Row, was very 
much troubled with this Humour in her 
Eyes, upon whom all the common Methods 
applicable in such Cases had been tryed with- 
out any Success. When her Father consulted 
me, I made him no Promise of a Cure, but 
to use my best Care to help her, which had 
that speedy Effect, that in 14 Days she found 
Benefit, could bear the Light of the Fire and 
Sun; and in less than Two Months, she had 
not the least Sign or Symptom of the Hu- 
mour about her. I do not mention the Gen- 
tleman’s Name, but divers People whom I 
have sent to enquire of him, have received 
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A Young Gentlewoman formerly lodg- 
ing at Mr. Skinners, a Linnen-Draper,
at the Sign of the Three Wheat-sheaves, a- 
gainst Bow Church, had one of these Stru- 
mous Swellings upon her right Hand; her 
Surgeons were for discharging the Humour 
by Causticks, but her Parents fearing the ill 
Consequences of those Expedients, sent for 
me March 4, 1714. Upon taking the spe- 
cifick Liquor a little time, the Tumour was 
brought to a natural Suppuration: upon which 
the Matter discharg'd, and then healed up 
without any other trouble or inconveniency. 
Mr. Skinner will satisfie any, Person of the- 
Truth of this Cure. 
COlonel Savery, of Greenwich, May 29, 
1711. did seek my Advice and Assi- 
stance for the Cure of a young Gentleman 
afflicted with the King's Evil in one of his 
Knees, and elsewhere; the Joint was ex- 
tremely swelled, which I feared might de- 
prive him of the use of his Leg; but it plea- 
sed God to favour my Endeavours with that 
Success, that he neither lost the use of that 
Joint, nor sustained any other Injury from 
his Distemper, being now as sound and health- 
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A Gentlewoman living near St. Peter's  
Church, in Cornhill, was sorely afflict- 
ed with this Humour in one of her Hands 
and Arms, whose Cure was somewhat te- 
dious, but at length it was accomplish’d, 
since when I have heard no Complaints of a 
Relapse. 
A Gentleman in my Neighbourhood, 
December 8, 1708. sent for me to 
see his Child, then about 4 Years of Age, 
one of her Knees was much tumified, also 
the fore Finger of her left Hand, and a hard 
Swelling in the Cheek. By good Fortune no 
Means had been applied. I order’d the 
Child the Specifick Liquor and Powder, which 
she took with great Pleasure; in a few Weeks 
her Swellings came to Maturity, broke, 
and discharged much Matter. I had a great 
Concern upon me to preserve the Use of her 
Limbs, and to prevent any disfiguring in 
her Face (the Child being very beautiful.) 
In 12 Months time, with God’s Blessing, I 
cleared her of the Distemper, and my self 
from fears of her downright Lameness for 
ever. 
MR. Ackworth, of Wandsworth, Mer- 
chant, recommended such an other 
Child for Age as the former, tho' much 
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worse in every Respect, as having a great 
many Swellings and Ulcers in divers parts. 
What my Success was in this difficult Case, 
I refer People to enquire of him. 
ELizabeth Sparvin, at the Three Crowns on 
London Bridge, had one of these Swel- 
lings in her Neck; she advis’d with me for 
her Cure, Sept. 10, 1713. which I effected 
with great Facility. Not long after she mar- 
ried, and hath a fine Child, without the least 
sign of any Hereditary Contagion. 
MR. John Aires, of Pudding-lane, Mer- 
chant, June 28, 1709, recommend- 
ed a Female Child to me; she had many 
Swellings and running Sores in divers parts, 
otherwise of a good Habit of Body: It was 8 
or 9 Months before her Cure was compleat- 
ed. 
A Merchant’s Lady, living in Putney, 
brought a young Man to me, Feb. 18, 
1713. about 16 Years of Age, the Youth 
then Apprentice to an Eminent Linnen-Dra- 
per in Grace-Church-street, had some hard 
Swellings in his Neck, with a scurvy Tumour 
above the right Eye, Undertaking his Cure, 
I ordered him the Specifick Liquor for his 
constant Drink, and likewise the Powder to 
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of his Swellings abated gradually, and so 
went away without any farther trouble. 
This Cure is well known in those Parts. 
MRS. Chandler, a Taylor’s Wife in Ri- 
gate, Surrey, came to my House, 
May the 7th, 1711. with a foul Ulcer in 
her great Toe, for the Cure whereof I gave 
her Dressings for outward Application, and 
the Specifick Drink and Powder to be taken 
as above, and supplied her with Medicines 
and Directions when ever she required: The 
Woman was not long under my Care, her 
Cure succeeding sooner then I expected.  
SArah King, then a Blew-coat Girl in Christ- 
Church Hospital, was by her Relations 
brought to me, June 1, 1711. she was swel- 
led about the Neck, besides several running. 
Sores, whom I cured during her stay in the 
Hospital; afterwards she was put Appren- 
tice to a Miliner, but where I know not. 
DR. Brailsford, present Dean of Wells, 
recommended a young Gentleman to 
me from St. John's College in Cambridge, 
whose Distemper was in one of his Elbows, 
and the Humour [or rather the Applicati- 
on of two Causticks] had deprived him of 
the use of that Joint, that he could not stretch 
out that Arm strait. His Ulcers were soon 
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healed, and afterwards by the Application 
of some other Means I helped him to the full 
use of his Arm; a Benefit I never expected. 
It’s hardly credible those Difficulties I have 
surmounted among some People, responding a 
Trust or Confidence in my Endeavours; and 
contrariwise, how little Service I have done 
where they have betrayed a Mistrust or Ti- 
morousness. 
THE Parish Clerk’s Son of Keltson, near 
the Bath, was a down-right Cripple 
with this Distemper, whom I cured by send- 
ing him Medicines with Directions. 
MR. Fathers, School-master of the Free- 
School in Thistleworth, sought my As- 
sistance for the Cure of his Child, Sept. 13, 
1714. the Boys Lips were very much swel- 
led, his Eyes extreme sore, and his Head 
broken out in several Places, who was cured 
in less than two Months; the Child having 
been free from any sign of the Humour about 
him ever since. 
A Gentleman living at the King’s Head, 
a Linnen-draper’s, the Corner of Milk- 
street, Cheapside, brought a young Man to 
me, Sept, 1, 1713. with a swelled upper 
Lip, and with several other Symptoms of this 
Disease elsewhere, whom I cured in less than 
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A Lady in Great Marlborough-street, sent 
her Footman to my House, April 9, 
1714 to wait on her about a Child subject 
to this Humour in her Eyes and Lips; for the 
Cure whereof, one of our absolute, perfect, 
and never failing Doctors, had given her a 
Drink not fit for a Horse. The Child being 
entrusted to my Care, I ordered her to take 
15 Drops of the Specifick Liquor in common 
Water every time she drank; and a Paper of 
the Specifick Powder in the Morning, and a- 
nother at Night; and with this Method the 
Humour presently abated of its Virulency in 
her Eyes and Lips, the Disease every Day- 
more or less discharging by Urine, and in a 
few Months she became well. 
THE Reverend Mr. Stanhope desired my 
charitable Assistance for the Cure of a 
poor Woman in the Country, which I cheer- 
fully consented to, and gave him Medicines 
with Directions to send to her. Not long af- 
ter this, Mr. Stanhope sent me this Letter. 
SIR,  
THE Imposthume in the Head of your poor 
Patient, Sarah Green, did break last Week, 
she now finds her self much better, and can move 
both her Arms. Her Sores likewise are healed, 
and her Swellings also are asswaged. She desires
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to know if she must continue the use of the Speci- 
fick Powder steeped in Water, as you advised, 
or whether she may forbear. Your speedy An- 
swer will oblige your humble Servant, 
M. Stanhope. 
April 9, 1708. 
A Gentleman’s Daughter at Rixmonds- 
worth, afflicted with the Evil in her 
Eyes from her Infancy was cured by me. 
ISaac Dead's Daughter, in Red-Lion-street, 
Spittle-fields, had a large foul Ulcer on 
the back of her Right Hand, after she had 
taken the Specifick Liquor and Powder a few 
Days, the Bones begun to scale and exfoliate, 
every dressing producing some black splin- 
ters, with so little trouble to the Child, that 
she never complained of the least Pain or 
Anguish during her Cure, which was effect- 
ed in Three Months time. If I was not obli- 
ged to Secrecy, I could relate the like 
Cure on a considerable Merchant in this 
City. 
WHereas I Matthew Winter, living at 
Mrs. Vaughan's, next Door to the 
Feathers in Billiter-lane,  being much afflicted 
with the King's Evil in my Face, wherein I 
had many Sores, and likewise several hard 
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Swellings in my Neck, for which I could 
not obtain any Cure, until I applied my 
self to the Reverend Mr. Vickers, living in 
Sherbourn-lane, near the General Post Office, 
Lombard-street, who by God’s Blessing in a 
short time did effect my Cure. In Testi- 
mony hereof I have hereunto set my Hand, 
Matthew Winter 
Octob. 25. 1707. 
Note, Since this Man was cured, he hath 
made several Voyages to the East-Indies; of 
whose Success, Mrs. Vaughan, and most of 
the Neighbours thereabouts, will witness the 
Truth. 
MR. Barnard, late of Milk-street, Cheap- 
side, sent for me to see a Child trou- 
bled with the Evil in her Eyes, and with
some Swellings about her Neck; for the 
Cure whereof she only drank the Specifick 
Liquor about two Months, which did remove 
the Humour out of her Eyes, and likewise 
the Swellings out of her Neck, without the 
least return ever since. 
MR. Timothy Styles, living in Lewis, 
Sussex, afflicted with the Evil in his 
Face; and likewise Philip Adams, living 
near St Albans, having a Leprous Humour
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in his Face and Breast, were both cured by 
the use of this Specifick Liquor. Also Mrs. 
Mitchel, of Haddenham in Bucks; and like- 
wise a young Woman in the next Parish, viz. 
Kingsly, were both cured by the same 
Means. 
MRS. Sheilds, at the King of Clubs, 
near Bunhill fields, brought her Son 
to me October, 23, 1711. having the King’s 
Evil in a very high degree in one of his 
Hands; the Boy otherwise of a very health- 
ful Disposition. I ordered him the Speci- 
fick Liquor and Powder, with Directions; 
and likewise Dressings for his Sores. After 
a few Days taking the Medicines, some 
Bones appear’d bare and foul, and in a 
Weeks time they came out, and then his 
Ulcers healed faster than I expected. This 
Boy is now put Apprentice to a Glover. 
MR. Samuel Cook, a jeweller by Trade, 
living in Gutter-lane, near Cheapside, 
applied himself to me Sept. 31, 1712. for the 
Cure of his Left Elbow, and the fore Fin- 
ger of the same Hand; the Elbow Joint was 
extremely swelled, and likewise contracted, 
that he could notextend it, if it had been to 
save his Life: The Circumstances of his Illness 
in many other Respects were so bad, that I 
had seldom seen the like. I begun his Cure 
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with the Use of the Specifick Liquor and Pow- 
der, which caused the Humour to break out 
in several Holes in the Elbow, and likewise 
in the Finger, discharging in both Places a 
plentiful deal of Corruption, with such Ma- 
lignancy and Violence, when his Dressings 
were shifted, that the Matter would gush out 
like a Spout, attended with such a rapid Heat 
as if an actual Fire had been in the part. 
It was full 18 Months before his Cure was 
perfected, who from a mere Skeleton is now 
become a plump, healthy, and strong 
Man. 
The Acrimony of these Cancerous and 
Scrophulous Ulcers is very surprizing. I 
have seen a Piece of Lead of a considerable 
thickness applied to both, and consumed af- 
ter the same manner as Soap-boilers Lees, 
Aqua Fortis, and the like, preyeth upon 
Metals. 
THE Lady Russel, living in Barwick- 
street, near Golden Square, will, I be- 
lieve, be so just to acknowledge my Suc- 
cess in a remarkable Cure on a Person whom 
her Ladyship recommended to me, Sept. 13. 
1707.
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October the 10th, 1710. A Gentlewoman 
in Duke-street, Westminster, sent her Foot- 
man to me, to wait on her the next Morning 
at Nine; when I came, she shewed me a 
Boy about 8 Years of Age, with a large, 
deep, and foul Ulcer in his Elbow Joint. 
The Lady making no Enquiries after my 
Success elsewhere, desired me to use my En- 
deavours to cure the Chlid, and to save his 
Arm from being cut off, which was threa- 
ten’d by some. I took the Child in hand, 
who in 7 Months time was perfectly cured, 
with the free Use of his Arm like the other. 
He is now a Scholar in Westminster School. 
And likewise another of my quondam Pati- 
ents, Master Guy Floyd, whose Case was not 
much unlike the former. 
SIR John M. Baronet, brought one of his 
Daughters to me, February the 3d, 1712. 
she had many large Tumours on both sides 
of her Neck, otherwise of a good Habit of 
Body. The inward Application of my Me- 
dicines caused all her Swellings to break, 
which continued running for about three 
Months; then they ceased to discharge 
any Matter, and healed without the least 
Scar, or sign of any such Humour to be 
seen in those Parts. The young Lady, 
whilst she was under my Cure, boarded at
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Mrs. Woodcock's School in Great Chelsea; 
but is since removed to her Father’s Seat in 
the Country; of whom I could never hear 
any Complaints of a Relapse. 
Whosoever questioneth my judgment, or 
Success in this particular Distemper, let 
them but enquire of Justice Brown, Esquire, 
in Islington, who upon his own Knowledge 
can inform them of such a Case which per- 
haps there hath not been the like this Twen- 
ty Years within the Bills of Mortality. 
Having already intimated, p. 18. that 
this Distemper is sometimes found in the in- 
ward Parts, where there are no outward Signs 
or Indications of it: The following Case I 
conceive a clear Instance thereof. 
A Gentleman of my Acquaintance often 
complaining to me of a nasty, fulsome 
stink in his Nostrils, which was so trouble- 
some and uneasie to him, that he was very 
much dejected therewith, tho' to all appear- 
ance his Nose both within and without, look- 
ed as well as any other Persons whatsoever; 
and having seen many Examples of my Suc- 
cess upon People afflicted with the King's E- 
vil, was resolved to make an Essay with my 
Specfick Remedy, in hopes it might affect 
his Case. I told him if he had any such De- 
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sign, it would be convenient for him to take 
first two or three Doses of my Chalybeate 
purging Portion, and after that to make my 
Specifick Liquor his constant Drink. The 
Gentleman followed my Advice, and in a 
Months time, as he was sitting with some 
Company over a Glass of Wine, finding 
some Provocation to blow his Nose, out 
comes a rotten Bone into his Handkerchief, 
somewhat bigger than a Rounsival Pea :
What Bone it was, or unto what part it be- 
longed I could not discover, but the Gentle- 
man never suffered the least hurt thereby, 
nor was he from that time ever troubled with 
his nauseous Smell. Here was no Manual 
Operation, but the pure Effects of the Me- 
dicine. 
The following Letter was sent me from a 
young Lady, who was my Patient in Katha- 
rine-street, near Covent Garden, out of the 
Country, after she left London. 
Rev. SIR, 
THIS comes to acquaint you, that my Eyes 
continue very well ever since I left London, 
so I hope there is no Occasion for a fresh supply of 
Medicines. I have some Thoughts of going to 
the Bath with a Relation; I desire your Opinion, 
if I may Bathe, or only drink the Waters; 
what you advise I shall strictly observe. I have
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also another Favour to ask of you; A Friend of 
mine seeing your Companion to the Altar, 
&c. would have you to send down a Dozen and 
half by the first Return of our Carrier, who lies 
at the Rose Inn, Holborn-bridge. So with 
mine and Sister's Service, I am yours, 
May 18, 
1709. 
M. M. 
A Gentlewoman brought a Female Child 
to me, August 8, 1714, afflicted all 
over the Body with mattery Scabs, rather 
the Leprosie than a Scrophulous Humour, 
contracted, as she told me, by an ill cur’d 
Itch. This Child I dieted with a peculiar 
Herb Diet, and gave her the Specifick Li- 
quor for her constant Drink; and likewise- 
ordered a Bath with some Herbs, and with 
some of the Specifick Liquor to Bath her in 
once or twice a Week. By the use of this 
Method the Child was in a few Weeks per- 
fectly cured. 
I have tryed this Bath in divers other 
Cases with admirable Success; particularly 
on a young Lady in Red Lion-square, vexed 
with a fiery, leprous Humour in her Neck, 
wherein she bathed but 9 Times and was 
freed from that troublesome Guest.
SIR, 

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Buntingford, Feb. 26, 17¹⁴⁄₁₅
SIR, 
I AM a poor Woman of this Place, and have 
a Daughter which has been under several 
Surgeons Hands concerning one of her Arms, 
and they really do believe it is the Evil: 
It has been a coming five or six Years: She 
has no Sore, but is in continual Pain; and when 
the Pain is very sharp, then her Arm is in 
a great heat: But when it is a Little abated, 
then her Arm is very cold: The Sinews are ve- 
ry much shrunk, and she has little or no Use of 
her Arm. So that if you think you can any ways 
help her, she shall come up, and I will requite 
you for all your Care and Trouble to the utmost of 
my Power. 
Your humble Servant, 
Ann Hall. 
The whole Town of Buntingford, besides 
the Mother of this poor Woman, and her 
self, have witnessed my Success in curing 
her, in such a manner as is not fitting for me 
to express. 
Captain Watkins, of Deptford, I believe 
will be so just to acknowledge my Success up- 
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A Young Gentleman after the Small-pox, 
had such a violent Humour attending 
his Eyes, that his Relations feared the loss 
of the sight of both, whom I cured in six 
Weeks.
‘ THE Tonsils, or Almonds of the Ears 
‘ (as Mr. Serjeant Wiseman hath long 
‘ since observed) are frequently swelled in 
‘ the King's Evil, which Tumour, saith he, 
‘ may be very well reckoned a Species of it. 
Such was the Condition of a young Gentle- 
man, who came out of the Country with 
both Tonsils very much swelled, attended 
with great difficulty of Swallowing. Various 
Methods of Cure had been tryed, but all 
proving ineffectual, I was advised with, up- 
on the Recommendation of one who had 
been my Patient. I begun his Cure with a 
purging Chalybeate of my own contrivance, 
which operated 4 or 5 Times every day he 
took it. A Man would hardly believe the 
Benefit which this Gentleman received in a 
short time by this Medicine, insomuch that 
he thought himself perfectly cured but as I 
knew it was not so, I pressed the internal 
use of my Specifick Liquor for 6 or 8 Weeks, 
unto which he consented and thereby be- 
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The Chalybeate purging Portion, I 
know by great Experience to be as valuable 
a Remedy in some particular Cases as a Man 
can wish or desire. 
A Gentlewoman living in the Burrough, 
brought a Female Child to me. May 
1, 1713. afflicted with this Humour in both 
her Eyes, and likewise within both Nostrils, 
and in her upper Lip; for the Cure whereof 
I ordered the Child to take 15 Drops of the 
Specifick Liquor in small Beer every time she 
called for drink, and one Paper of the Spe- 
cifick Powder at 9 in the Morning, and ano- 
ther Paper at 5 in the Evening. By the con- 
tinuance of this Method the Child was per- 
fectly cleared of the Humour, and hath con- 
tinued free ever since. 
MRS. Flatman, living in Canterbury, 
brought a Child to me, Nov. 30, 
1711. with grievous sore Eyes, and some 
Swellings in her Neck, to whom I gave Di- 
rections for the Child’s Diet, and also how- 
to use the Specifick Liquor for her constant 
Drink. In a little time the Child found the 
Benefit thereof in her Eyes; the Swellings in 
her Neck did not break, but by degrees les- 
sened, and in 4 Months time quite disappear- 
ed. I could never hear of any returns of the 
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CAptain H. formerly a Commissioner of 
the Victualling-Office, Tower-hill, sent 
a Child to me, April 28, 1709. with a great 
deduction of Humours in both her Eyes, and 
with a swelled upper Lip; seldom the one 
without the other in Children. For the Cure 
of this Child I ordered so many Drops of the 
Specifick Liquor to be taken in her constant 
drink, and to wash her Eyes with an Eye- 
water made with the Specifick Powder. By 
the use of these Things the Child mended 
apace, but after some time relapsed worse 
than ever. I who knew the Reason, was 
not discouraged, nor in Truth were her Pa- 
rents much concerned when I shewed them 
the Cause. So I persued the Method with a 
little Variation, and thereby effectually con- 
quered the Humour to their Satisfaction as 
well as to my own. 
A Gentleman unknown to me, came to 
my House in his Chariot, to carry me 
to a Friend of his troubled with a large Swel- 
ling in his Groin. Divers Applications I per- 
ceived had been used to dissolve it; and al- 
so various Opinions had passed among the 
Learned; some said one Thing, and some 
another; I declared, that in my Opinion, 
It was a scrophulous Tumour, and the only way 
to get rid of it, was to bring it to a natural
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Suppuration. The Gentleman disputed my 
Skill, because it was not my Profession, 
Why, saith his Friend, standing by, if the 
Parson acquits himself with Sincerity and Suc- 
cess, do not trouble your self about his Profession. 
Sir, said I, turning my self to the Patient, 
allowing your Exception to be true, if you 
can be contented without doing any thing, 
this Swelling will break in 10 	or 12 Days 
(for Nature, if you do not obstruct her by 
unnecessary Applications) is doing her own 
Work. My Predictions proving true, the 
Gentleman sent me a Penny Post Letter, de- 
siring me to come once more to his Chambers. 
I went the next Morning, and found a plen- 
tiful discharge of Matter and to convince 
him I had no design on his Purse, I desired 
him to send to any Apothecary for a certain 
Salve, and to dress the Ulcer therewith 
Morning and Night, and if in six Weeks or 
two Months he was not therewith cured, I 
would be his Slave for ever; and so it came 
to pass according to my Prediction, that 
when the Salve had drawn out the Core, the 
Ulcer immediately healed found and firm, 
so much to his Satisfaction, that ever since he 
is become my Advocate in this Business. 
A Gentleman of Castle Heningham, Essex, 
brought his Son to me, Sept. 6, 1711. 
who it seems had been much troubled with
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several running Sores, which by some Means 
or other were all dried up, and as his Pa- 
rents thought, quite cured;  but the young 
Man after this perfect and absolute Cure had 
a continual Cough, loss of Appetite, with a 
continual Atrophy. Upon the first View of 
his Case, I told his Father the young Man 
must have the Evil again, otherwise he would 
die. His Father then left him to my Care, 
who after he had taken the Specifick Liquor 
and Powder a few Days, his old healed Sores 
broke out afresh, and vented much filthy 
Matter, then the Cough ceased, his Stomach 
came to him, and the young Man began to 
look about him with tolerable Ease and Com- 
fort, and by the constant taking of my Medi- 
cine, and with some Directions for his Diet, 
in a Twelve Months time he is become as 
sound and healthful a Period as any other in
those Parts. 
MRs. Easter Smith, a young Woman, 
Chamber-Maid to a Physician's La- 
dy in this City, had a Clutter of these 
Scrophulous Tumours on both sides of 
her Neck not ulcerated. Her Matter, she 
said, had given her abundance of Calomel, 
Mercurim dulcis, and Diet Drinks made 
of the Woods. But finding no Advantage, 
she desired my Assistance, provided I would 
not let it be known to the Family where she
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Lived. I told her I should not speak of it, 
and would always convey the Remedies with 
Directions to her by a second Hand, which 
was done accordingly for the space of four 
Months, in which time she obtained her Cure: 
The Tumours wasted away insensibly. 
A Young Woman came to me, April 7, 
1715. diseased with a white dry Scab 
from Head to Foot, supposed to be the Le- 
prosie. I gave her first the Chalybeate Potion 
for 9 Mornings, a Pint each Morning fasting, 
which gave her sometimes 4, sometimes 6 Mo- 
tions in a Day with very good Success. After 
her Purging was over, I ordered the Specifick 
Liquor for her constant Drink;  and like wise 
a Bathing Tub filled with lukewarm Water, 
wherein I put a good quantity of Herbs, and 
some of the Specifick Liquor to Bath her self 
in twice a Week for the space of an Hour 
each time. This Method of drinking and 
washing she continued 5 Weeks, whereby 
she became clear of that filthy and trouble- 
some Humour which had vexed her many 
Years. 
MR. James Martin, a Physician’s Son, 
of Galloway in Ireland, (as he told me) 
came to me, March 23, 1713. with the 
King's Evil in several Places in his Face, and 
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His stay being very short in England, he on- 
ly desired Medicines with Directions to take 
with him into his own Country, which I 
granted. A Year afterwards another young 
Gentleman of the same Country came over 
upon the same Occasion, recommended to 
me from Mr. Martin, whom he assured me 
was made whose by those very Remedies he 
had from me. 
THomas Mackearnock, a Scotch Man by 
Nation, then living at the Turks-Head 
Coffee-house, St. James's-street, came to me 
with another of his Country-men, June 25, 
1712. the former’s Face and Jaws were al- 
most eaten away with this evil Humour. 
Both of them made great Promises of Re- 
ward if I would undertake the Cure, which 
I did effect with great facility: But they 
served me a Scurvy trick, from that time to 
this I could never set Eyes of either. Such 
generous Spirits I meet with frequently. 
That those Things which are accounted 
vile, and of no worth, may serve to free 
Men from Death when managed by a pro- 
per Hand, will appear by this following Case, 
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ONE Timothy Wright, a poor fellow, 
came to me, Feb. 12, 1713. with a 
large Tumour in his left Knee, which some 
call a white Swelling; but a worse Grie- 
vance attending him, was a continual Purg- 
ing, which had reduced him to a Skeleton. 
To remedy this Evil, I gave him the Pow- 
der of Tobacco-pipes, which in a few Days 
stayed his Flux (a rare effectual Alkalious 
Medicine) and then the poor Fellow got 
some Stomach and Strength. After this, 
the Swelling in the Knee Joint, by taking of 
the Specifick Medicine, broke, and dischar- 
ged much Matter, with some splinters of the 
Bone: The Ulcer in a few Months healed, 
but the use of the Joint could not be preser- 
ved, he going Lame ever since. 
MRS. Edgar, in Crown Court, Broad- 
street, recommended a Child to me 
in September 1710. she had a dangerous Swel- 
ling on the right Collar-bone, with some o- 
ther Tumours elsewhere: I had much Diffi- 
culty in her Cure, but at length it was ef- 
fected. 
A Young Man in Fore-street, near Moor- 
gate, came to my House April 26, 1710. 
with several running Sores in his right El- 
bow. Be wanted me to promise him a per-
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fect Cure. I told him he mistook the Man. 
Why, Sir, quoth he, you have done many 
great Cures, and why may you not cure me 
also? But without Promises, Bonds, or Con- 
tracts, said I; and if you are willing to try 
the Means as others have done, leaving the 
Success to the Almighty, you are welcome 
to my Assistance which he agreed to. Ac- 
cordingly I gave him some Vials of my Spe- 
cifick Drops, to take 15 at a Time, in his 
common Table-drink thrice a day, with 
Dressings for his Sores, and Rules for his 
Diet. I had no other Trouble with him, 
but to give him what Medicines he wanted, 
and before August he had not one Sore or 
Swelling about him. If his Sores do not 
break out again, as I hope (by all Circum- 
stances) they will not, it may pass for a per— 
fect Cure beyond Relapse. 
William Thompson, a poor young Fellow a- 
bout 16 Years of Age, came to my 
House, August, 1709. assisted with a hard 
Crusty Scab all over his Body, which he said 
when hot in Bed did itch so excessively that 
he seldom got any rest. I did not look upon 
this to be the Evil, but an inveterate Lepro- 
sie. But because of his Poverty, I was wil- 
ling to endeavour his Cure. Accordingly I 
first purged him Seven or Eight Times, and 
then gave him the Specifick Liquor for his 
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constant Drink. I directed him also to pro- 
cure a large Tub deep enough to plunge 
himself over the Head, which being filled 
with Water, I mixed therewith some Speci- 
fick Liquor, ordering him to Bathe himself 
therein every Morning the first Thing he 
did, and to do the same at Night going to 
Bed, This Method he continued Three 
Weeks, and then his Scabs dropped off al- 
most like Hail, and his whole Body became 
clear from that filthy Infection. To pre- 
vent any future Relapse, or any other In- 
disposition, I caused him to make two Issues, 
one in, each Arm, and repeated the former 
Purgation Four or Five Times. The fol- 
lowing Spring, fearing the return of the Hu- 
mour, I made some Enquiries after him, 
and found the young Man in a very good. 
State of Health, and without the least Sign 
or Symptom of his former Illness about him. 
This Thompson did live in Tongue-yard by 
Whitechappel Church. 
A Poor Woman living, in Grays-Inn-lane, 
brought her Child, a Girl about 11 
Years of Age, to my House, Sept. 14, 1708. 
The Fingers of one of her Hands were al- 
most eaten away with Ulcers, and the Bones 
of the Right Heel and Foot were all bare, 
fetid and black. I gave the Woman Dres- 
sings for her Child's Sores, and the Specifick
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to take inwardly, ordering her to come con- 
stantly for a fresh supply of both whenever 
she wanted; and she did so for some Months 
with great Satisfaction and Expectation of a 
Cure. But about the latter end of February 
following, the Child relapsed and grew worse, 
and then her Mother’s Good-will was turn- 
ed into Hatred, and foul Language, and no- 
thing would serve, but she would get her 
Child into the Hospital; which was endea- 
voured, but because it was the Evil the Child 
was rejected. The Father then came with 
many Intreaties, begging me to renew my 
former Applications. I did so, and in a 
few Months afterwards the Child became 
well. The Man’s Name to the best of my 
Remembrance was Skirrow. 
Where these Humours are of any long 
Continuance, Relapses will sometimes happen, 
before they can be totally eradicated. Chro- 
nical Diseases, like accustomed Habits, do 
acquire great Strength, and become as it were 
natural, and consequently will not quit their 
Hold without several Efforts. In all such 
Cases a wise Physician will not Gallop nor 
Spur Nature on too fast, least by exaspera- 
ting the Humours, he raise a Devil he’s not 
able to lay. And this a small matter will 
do in some People, especially those of a 
hectick and consumptive Habit, the general 
Companions of this Disease. 
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A Young Man about nineteen Years of 
Age, Apprentice to a Linnen Draper, 
came to my House, April the 10th, 1709. 
He had several running Sores in one of his 
Legs of about 3 or 4 Years standing. After 
I had given him some Account of my Me- 
thod, and my Opinion withal, that it would 
require some considerable Time to accom- 
plish his Cure, he told me an eminent Practi- 
tioner in the City propos’d to do it in 6 
Weeks, by sweetning his Blood with Mercu- 
rial Purgatives and Sudorifick Decoctions. With 
all my Heart, said I, but before you engage, 
pray breathe a Vein, and let me see the 
Blood. He did so, and I do not know that 
I have seen better Blood than his then was. Af- 
ter he had been under this eminent Practitio- 
ner's Directions about ten Weeks, he came 
to me again with many grievous Complaints, 
begging my Assistance for his Cure, if it 
were possible, or at least to help him to some 
tolerable Ease. I required him once more to 
Open a Vein, that I might see his Blood after 
this Purification; and it then appear’d in the 
Porringer like the corrupted Matter in his 
sore Leg. Moreover his Body was so extreme- 
ly emaciated with those strong Evacuations, 
that I greatly feared a Consumption. But con- 
sidering, the more difficult the Cure, so much 
the more Honour if I succeeded, I wrote him
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in the first Place a Bill of Fare for his constant 
Diet, and then gave him Dressings for his 
Sores, with Directions how to apply them, 
and my Specifick Liquor, to take three half 
Pints at three Times every Day. In Two 
Months Time, he gained considerable 
Strength; then I advised him to double the 
Quantity of Liquor every Day, and not to 
fail washing his sore Leg Morning and Night 
with the same Drink. In the Month of Au- 
gust, he fell ill of the Small Pox, for which 
Distemper, I would have left him to the 
Care of some Physician; but he absolutely 
refilling, I was under a Necessity of assisting  
him in that Case also. It pleased God, that  
he recovered of that; and tho’ the Small Pox 
had rather increased than diminished his o- 
ther Distemper, his Leg being more swelled 
than before, yet with much Difficulty I did 
bring him quite to rights by the following 
February; and this, all Things considered, I 
think may be reckon’d no very tedious Cure. 
THUS, Sir, I have given you some 
Account of what I have done for my 
self with this Specific Remedy; and likewise 
how successful others have found it. For the 
Publication whereof I will not trouble you 
with any Apology or Excuse; divers great 
and learned Men have done the like before 
me, Whosoever had gained any Experience on 
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himself or others, saith Hero- 
dotus, made it publick.
Lib 2. p.6.
And again, it was the Custom, saith 
the same Historian, To carry their Sick and 
Diseased into the Markets, that all People pas- 
sing by might give their Advice, and encourage 
others to try what themselves and others had in 
the like Cases used with Success. To attempt a- 
ny thing for the Improvement of useful Arts, e- 
specially that of Medicine (which is of the grea- 
test Benefit to Mankind) saith the ingenious 
Dr. Wainewright, in his Treatise of Non-Na- 
turals, Is a Debt which every capable Person 
owes to the publick The Honourable Esquire 
Boyle, the Reverend Mr. John Ray, and some 
others, tho' no professed Physicians or Sur- 
geons, have by their Writings done consider- 
able Service to both. Also Dr. Wagstaffe 
a late Divine in this City; and the Reverend 
Mr. Mansel in Northamptonshire; the one for 
Physick, and the other for Surgery, have gi- 
ven full Proof of their great Abilities and Suc- 
cess in each. The Reverend Mr. Robert Sher- 
rock, Prebend of Winchester, and Minister of 
Bishops Waltham, Hampshire, was as Eminent 
for his Knowledge in Physick as in Divinity, 
who with a Vulnerary Decoction did effect 
many great Cures on inveterate Ulcers; one 
whereof my self was an Eye Witness to. Not 
to mention several other Clergymen in the 
Country, who to the great Comfort and Sa-
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tisfaction of their poor indigent Neighbours, 
practice both. Hereby it appears (if any think 
themselves so wise as to question it) that 
the Knowledge of either of these Sciences is 
not above the Sphere of Clergymens Capaci- 
ties as to Internals, nor beyond their reach as 
to manual Operations. l am not therefore 
singular in this Undertaking, Multitudes of 
my own Profession having done the same, 
therein following the Example of their Bles- 
sed Master, who, tho' he made the Soul the 
peculiar Object of his heavenly Doctrine, yet 
did not neglect the Diseases and Infirmities 
of Men’s Bodies: He in a miraculous Man- 
ner, and we according to the Measure of that 
Capacity that God has been pleased to give 
unto us. To him be all Praise and Glory 
for ever and ever. Amen. 
Sherbourn-Lane, near the 
General Post-Office in 
Lombard-street. 
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