The works of Mr. Thomas Brown, serious and comical : in prose and verse, with his remains in four volumes compleat; vol. IIBrown, Thomas
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The works of Mr. Thomas Brown, serious and comical : in prose and verse, with his remains in four volumes compleat; vol. II
Brown, Thomas
English wit and humor -- Early works to 1800; Erotic literature -- Early works to 1800; Latin literature -- Translations into English
circulation, reforms the digestion of the chylon, fortifies the
opthalmic nerves, clears the officina intelligentiæ, corrects the
exorbitancy of the spleen, mundifies the hypogastrium, comforts the
sphincter, and is an excellent remedy against the prosopochlorosis,
or green-sickness, sterility, and all obstructions whatever. They
operate seven several ways in, order, as nature herself requires;
for they scorn to be confin’d to any particular way of operation,
_viz._ hypnotically; by throwing the party into a gentle slumber;
hydrotically by their operitive faculty, in opening the interstitia
pororum; carthartically, by cleansing the bowels of all crudities
and tartarous mucilage, with which they abound; proppysmatically,
by forcing the wind downward; hydragogically, by exciting urine;
pneumatically, by exhilerating the spirits; and lastly,
synecdochically, by corroborating the whole _oeconomia animalis_.
They are twenty or more in every tin-box, sealed with my coat of
arms, which are, _Three clyster pipes erect_ gules, _in a field
argent_; my crest, _a bloody hand out of a mortar, emergent_; and
my supporters, _a Chymist and an Apothecary_. This _Tinctura
Solaris_, or most noble off-spring of _Hyperion_’s golden
influence, wipes off abstersively all those tenacious,
conglomerated, sedimental sordes, that adhere to the œsophagus and
viscera, extinguishes all supernatural ferments and ebullitions;
and, in fine, annihilates all the nosotrophical or morbific ideas
of the whole corporeal _compages_.
_Thirdly_, My _Panagion Outacousticon_, or auricular restorative:
were it possible to show me a man so deaf, that if a demiculverin
were to be let off under his ear, he could not hear the report, yet
these infallible drops (first invented by the two famous
physician-brothers, St. _Cosmus_, and St. _Damian_, call’d the
_Anargyri_ in the ancient _Greek_ menologies; and some forty years
ago, communicated to me by _Anastasio Logotheti_, a _Greek_ collier
at _Adrianople_, when I was invited into those parts to cure sultan
_Mahomet_ IV. of an elephantiasis in his diaphragm) would recover
his auditive faculty, and make him hear as smartly as an old
fumbling priest, when a young wench gives him account of her lost
maiden-head at the confessional.
_Fourthly_, My _Anodyne Spirit_, excellent to ease pain, when taken
inwardly, and applied outwardly, excellent for any lameness,
shrinking or contraction of the nerves; for eyes, deafness, pain
and noise in the ears; and all odontalgic, as well as podagrical
inflammations.
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