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
_Fifthly_, My _Antidotus Antivenerealis_; which effectually cures
all gonorrheas, carnosities in the delinquent part, tumours,
phymosis, paraphymosis, christalline priapisms, hemorrhoids,
cantillamata, ragades, bubos, imposthumations, carbuncles,
genicular nodes, and the like, without either baths or stoves; as
also without mercury so often destructive to the poor patient, with
that privacy, that the nearest relation shall not perceive it.
_Sixthly_, My _Pectoral Lozenges_, or _Balsam_ of _Balsams_, which
effectually carries off all windy and tedious coughs, spitting of
blood, wheezing in the larynx and ptyalismus, let it be never so
inveterate.
_Seventhly_, and _lastly_, My _Pulvis Vermifugus_, or _Antivermatic
Powder_ brings up the rear, so famous for killing and bringing away
all sorts of worms incident to human bodies breaking their
complicated knots in the _duodenum_, and dissolving the phlegmatick
crudities that produce those anthropophagous vermin. It has brought
away, by urine, worms as long as the may-pole in the _Strand_, when
it flourish’d in its primitive prolixity, tho’, I confess, not
altogether so thick. In short, ’tis a specifick catholicon for the
cholick, expels winds by eructation, or otherwise; accelerates
digestion, and creates an appetite to a miracle.
I dexterously couch the cataract or suffusion, extirpate wens of
the greatest magnitude, close up hair-lips, whether treble or
quadruple; cure the polipus upon the nose, and all scrophulous
tumours, cancers in the breast, _Noli me tangeri_’s, St.
_Anthony_’s fire, by my new invented _unguentum Antipyreticum_,
excrescences, or superfluous flesh in the mouth of the bladder or
womb; likewise I take the stone from women or maids without
cutting.
I have steel trusses, and instruments of a new invention, together
with never-failing medicines and methods to cure ruptures, and knit
the peritonæum. And here I cannot forbear to communicate an useful
piece of knowledge to the world, which is, that with the learned
_Villipandus_, in his excellent treatise, _de congrubilitate
materiæ primæ cum confessione Augustana_, I take a rupture to be a
relaxation of the natural cavities, at the bottom of the cremaster
muscles. But this, _en passant_, I forge all my self; nay my very
machines for safe and easy drawing teeth and obscure stumps. Mrs.
_Littlehand_, midwife to the princess of _Phlegethon_, can
sufficiently inform the women of my helps, and what I do for the
disruption of the fundament and uterus, and other strange
infirmities of the matrix, occasioned by the bearing of children,
violent coughing, heavy work, _&c._ which I challenge any person in
the _Acherontic_ dominions to perform, but my self.
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