SOME OBSERVATIONS Made upon the Bengala Bean, Imported from the INDIES: SHOWING Its Admirable VIRTUES In CURING All sorts of Hemorrages, and particularly Spitting of Blood.  
Written by a Doctor of Physic in the Country to one of his Patients in London.  
Printed in the Year 1694.   

SOME OBSERVATIONS Made upon the Bengala Bean, IMPORTED FROM The INDIES: In a LETTER, etc.  
SIR,  
IEceived yours, wherein you give me an Account of your dangerous Disaster, which greatly threatens your Life, viz. your frequent Spitting of Blood, proceeding from the Acrimony of that Vital Liquor. Long and frequent Evacuations of that Kind must of necessity spend the Spirits, weaken Nature, and shorten Life: I therefore recommend to you a most Excellent Specific in your Distemper, viz. the Bengala Bean; which is of a healing Balsamic Nature, moderately Styptic, of a very temperate Quality, and affords an excellent Soder to the Veins and Arteries, where any breach is made on them by the Defluxions of a sharp corroding Humour: It mitigates the Acidity of all salt Rheums which invade the Lungs, and threaten a Consumption. It checks the Violence of Coughing, and easeth pains in the Breast, it rarely Thickens and incrassates the Blood, and gives it a good Consistence, whereby it prevents all sorts of Hemorrages of Blood.  
Dr. Smith, the Author of the Book called Solomon's Pourtraicture of Old Age, tells of a young Virgin, a Patient of his, who Died in twenty four hours Space, of a Violent Flux of Blood, from all parts of her Body; as Nose, Ears, Eyes, Mouth, etc. Had he been so happy as to have known this Remedy, I don't know but he might have saved her, with God Almighty's blessing.  
We cannot now Apply ourselves in our Issues of blood, to so Happy a remedy as the Him of our Saviour's Garment, and therefore must make use of the Best means we can, and be thankful if we find Relief by any.  
I could tell you a strange Story of a young Gentleman who was troubled with a Hemoptosie, or spitting of Blood for many Weeks, so that he Despaired of Life. He had opened a Vein Twice, had used all the Common Forms of Medicines, as Frictions, Ligatures, Fomentations, Gentle Purgatives, and what else could be thought on by the ablest Physicians; but nothing could cure the Rupture of the Vessels about the Lungs, until he applied himself unto the Drops drawn out of this Balsamic Bean, and drinking them sometimes in Cow's Milk, and sometimes in Asses and Goat's Milk, was wonderderfully Cured.  
I knew a Learned Divine, who straining his Voice in Preaching, had broke a Vein in his Lungs; and after the use of many Prescriptions, which proved insignificant, he at length used these vulnerary Drops in Wine and Water, and he experienced a mighty advantage thereby, to the Immortal Praise of the Great Physician above.  
A Labouring Man about Forty years of Age, who fell from the Top of a House, and bruised his Breast, which occasioned Spitting of Blood: I gave him these Drops in Mead seven days, and all his pains abated, and he Spit no more Blood, nor felt any more pain.  
A Child about Twelve Years of Age, being troubled with a violent Cough, which caused him to Spit and Vomit Blood, a great Quantity, after he had taken many Fantastical Medicines, as Fried Mice, John and Jones Bread, sat with his Naked Buttocks upon a Bears Back, and been Tossed seven or nine times over a Bramble-Bush, etc. at last he took these Drops in Claret-Wine and Water, and was cured of his Chincough, his Whooping ceased, and his Spitting went off.  
An elderly Person, who was continually bleeding at the Nose, and other parts, was wonderfully rescued from the Jaws of Death, by the use of these Drops in Milk and Water.  
FINIS.