Some observations made upon the Brasillian root, called ipepocoanha, imported from the Indies shewing its wonderful virtue against vomiting and looseness / written by a physitian in the countrey to the president of the Colledge of Physitians in London.

Some observations made upon the Brasillian root, called ipepocoanha, imported from the Indies shewing its wonderful virtue against vomiting and looseness / written by a physitian in the countrey to the president of the Colledge of Physitians in London.

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SOME OBSERVATIONS Made upon the Brasillian Root: SHEWING Its Wonderful Virtues against Vomiting and Loosness. In a LETTER, &c.

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SOME OBSERVATIONS Made upon the Brasillian Root: SHEWING Its Wonderful Virtues against Vomiting and Loosness. In a LETTER, &c.

SIR,

I Being frequently importuned by Esq Boyl to make Experiments upon Indian Simples, and to give an Account of my Observations and Success to some London Physitians, and knowing you to be very Curious in Medicine, I take this Opportunity to Communicate [Page] to you what wonderful Virtue I have found in the Root called Hypepocoanha, which hath done such Wonders in France and Flanders in the Cure of Dysenteries and Lyenterial Fluxes, Diseases proving very fatal both to Fleets and Armies, as well as unto Cities and Countries.

This Famous Root hath an admirable Quality to blunt those Acidities which irritate Nature, and stimulate the Expulsive Faculty, it stays all violent Excretions of the Guts; and this it doth not by astringency but by its Cleansing Quality, expelling those Venemous Particles which were lodged in the Intestines, and afterwards by its Balsamick Properties heals and comforts the Bowels, and repairs those Breaches which the Enemy hath made.

I knew an Old Gentleman who fell into a Malignant Distemper for many Days, and was brought so low, he could not turn in his Bed, and had considerable Quantities of Blood mingled with his Stools, a black Thrush in his Mouth, with an intermittent Pulse, after [Page] all other Methods proved insufficient, I gave him the Tincture, Spirit and Extract of this Root in all his Liquid Alliment, and he found wonderful Relief, and recover'd Health and Strength.

A young Man who was miserably afflicted with frequent returns of Pains in the Bowels, and upon every change of his Meat or Drink was put into a Scowring, so that all his Nourishment was lost, and he could not sleep, being disturbed by frequent Motions to Stool, and it had washed away all his Flesh, and reduced him to a meer Skelliton. I gave him the Medicines made with the Root, and nothing else, and his Distemper abated, and his Strength returned, and he is now alive and in good Health.

The Reason why I reduce most Indian Drugs into the form of Tinctures, Spirits and Extracts, is to preserve their Virtues, which else are apt to perish and Decay by Time and change of Climate.

[Page]This Root is not without the Approbation of good Authorities of Travellers and Physitians. A famous Doctor in Scotland wrote me a Letter of some great Cures he had wrought with it amongst Children, who were brought unto the brink of the Grave by Loosness and Gripings in the Guts; it hath carried off all that Green Choller wherewith they are extreamly molested, and thereby prevented many Distempers caused thereby.

I knew a Gentlewoman who was brought into a very weak Condition by a Disentery or Loosness, she had taken many Glysters made with very proper Ingredients, her Physitians thought she had an Ulcer in her Bowels, which might be the Occasion of her frequent Relapses; I gave her Drops drawn out of this sovereign Root, sometimes in Wine and Water, and sometimes in Milk and Water, and she quickly recovered, and hath had no returns of her Distemper many Months.

[Page]I could give twenty more Instances of Cures wrought by this Remedy, but these I think are sufficient for any Physitian to make tryal of it when the vulgar Methods fail; but some Men will not think it for their Interest to approve of what they don't prescribe themselves; but I take you to be a Man of more Honesty and Candor, and design more to do good than to get Money.

I very well remember that Sir Charles Scarborough told me that a Physitian in France had done great Cures with it, and kept it as a Secret a long time, and when it came to be known to be so effectual against all sorts of Fluxes, the Secretary of State to that Kingdom gave order that all the Physitians and Chyrurgeons belonging to the Hospitals and Army should be furnisht with it.

Piso and Margrave have given particular Descriptions of it, and I am told that the Germans Ephemerids gives an Account of it as an infallible Medicine. See the 20th. Volume.

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SOME OBSERVATIONS Made upon the Brasillian Root, CALLED Ipepocoanha: Imported from the INDIES: SHEWING Its Wonderful Virtue against VOMITING and LOOSNESS.

Written by a Physitian in the Countrey to the President of the Colledge of Physitians in London.

London Printed, &c. 1682.

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Some observations made upon the Brasillian root, called ipepocoanha, imported from the Indies shewing its wonderful virtue against vomiting and looseness / written by a physitian in the countrey to the president of the Colledge of Physitians in London.

Griffith, Richard, 1635?-1691.

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— Some observations made upon the Brasillian root, called ipepocoanha, imported from the Indies shewing its wonderful virtue against vomiting and looseness / written by a physitian in the countrey to the president of the Colledge of Physitians in London., Griffith, Richard, 1635?-1691., Pechey, John, 1655-1716..

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[s.n.],. London :: 1682.. (Wrongly attributed to John Pechey by Surgeon general's catalogue (ser. 1); to John Pechey by Mansell; and to Dr. Griffith by Halkett and Laing.) (Reproduction of original in Huntington Library.)

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