Organon salutis. An instrument to cleanse the stomach. As also divers new experiments of the virtue of tobacco and coffee: how much they conduce to preserve humane health / By W[alter] R[umsey] of Gray's Inne, Esquire.

  • W. R. (Walter Rumsey), 1584-1660
Date:
1659
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Credit: Organon salutis. An instrument to cleanse the stomach. As also divers new experiments of the virtue of tobacco and coffee: how much they conduce to preserve humane health / By W[alter] R[umsey] of Gray's Inne, Esquire. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    health, and to avoid worms, to have their bellies well anointed by the fire, with the faid oy] of Tobacco, when | they ufe thefe Suppofiters. 6. If a man hath not a convenient loofe ftool,. then Jet-him putin another like Suppofiter prefently. T’his may be ufed every morning, or at any other time, as occafion ferveth. 7. Asthe Suppofiters commonly u- fed do bring the danger of the Pilesand Ulcers, fo Glifters.oftentimes prove ve- ry dangerous, by working'upwards,the clean contrary way, which Doétor Primrofe confe(feth: And when a Gli- {ter will not work then they muft have the help of a Suppofiter, as Wecker con- fefieth. : 8. Inrefpe& [have {poken fo much of the ufe of Tobacco, to work up- wards and downwards, let amanread And taken man in We callet may the € } whic critn heat hum ro thi 0, brew take inde ent it it tt Phy fame, and.alfo where he maintaineth, Thatif a Phyfician prefcribes a vomit or a purge, which works contrary ef- feats, heoughtto be blamed, by reafon | “And | 8 USA ae a es Ri Me