SOME OBSERVATIONS Made upon the Bermudas Berries: Imported from The INDIES: SHOWING Their Admirable VIRTUES In CURING The Green-Sickness.  
Written by a Doctor of Physic in the Country To the Honourable Esq; boil.  
LONDON, Printed in the Year 1694   

SOME OBSERVATIONS Made upon the Bermudas Berries, IMPORTED FROM The INDIES: In a LETTER, etc.  
SIR,  
I Received yours with Intimations of your kind Acceptance of the last Specific that I communicated to you, and with an Invitation to proceed in so useful an undertaking: And I do assure you, that seeing yourself and some great Physicians in London, are so well pleased with what I have done in this Kind, I am resolved to go on, and tell you what Experiments I have made in the use of Simple Medicines. I remember Sir William Temple tells us, that the Legislators amongst the Indians made a severe Law against the use of Compound Medicines. I myself have known such great Cures wrought by Simple Medicines, that I am under a great temptation to despise Compositions, except in complicated Distempers.  
For my part I firmly believe, that (universal Evacuations being premised) the greatest Cures wrought in the World, are by the use of Specifical Medicines, and yet I have this fifty years been an exact Observer of the Methodus Medendi.  
I never yet found a better Medicine against the Green Sickness than the Bermudas Berries, taken familiarly in any Liquor; but I find the Tincture of it made with White-wine, and also the Spirits and Extract of the same, more efficacious than any other Form.  
They wonderfully open the Obstructions of the Liver and Spleen, mend an ill habit of Body, cures the Green Sickness, by refining the Mass of Blood, and restoring the Ferments to the Parts; it helps digestion, and removes a depraved Appetite, desiring hurtful things: it clears the Cloudiness of the Skin, and mends the Complexion, and unloads an oppressed Stomach of those indigested humours which corrupt good Nourishment, and cause shortness of Breath and Stoppages.  
A Gentlewoman about Twenty Eight years of Age, who was troubled with Obstructions, and her Complexion extremely altered, her Lips and Cheeks turned as white as a Cloth, her Eyes and Face bloated, her Legs swelled, and the Regular Course of Nature stopped; after she had taken great quantities of Powder of Steel to no purpose, she took the Tincture, Spirit and Extract drawn out of these Berries, Morning, Noon and Night, and her Stomach mended, her Colour returned like a Rose in June, and she could with pleasure run up four pair of Stairs at a time: She took the Tincture in Beer, the Spirit in White-wine, and the Extract in Pennyroyal Water.  
We have in our Country a large Boarding-School of young Gentlewomen, and I have known half a score of them at a time afflicted with this uncomfortable Distemper, which made them uneasy to themselves, and unpleasant to their Relations; and in one Course of the Moon, by the use of the Medicines drawn out of these Berries, they were recovered to a Miracle, and grew cheerful and healthful: But all Remedies in this Distemper are most efficacious when used with Exercise.  
I knew one Gentlewoman, whole case was by most Physicians thought to be past Recovery, being brought by this Distemper to the brink of the Grave; her Flesh was wasted, her Legs swelled, her Stomach lost, and her Legs so weak, not able to support her body; yet in the use of these Berries she revived, and lived to be a hale woman, and had many Children.  
And now because I know your Philosophical Inclination, I'll tell you a remarkable Observation lately made by me upon a young Virgin, who died of this Disease, she was extremely far gone into the Green Sickness, lost her Strength and Spirits, had taken great quantities of Powder of Steel, been blooded in the Foot twice, and at length dying; upon Dissection we found a Mortification in her Stomach and Bowels, caused by a sharp corroding Humour, which caused very acute Pains in her Body: Had I been called to her, I should certainly have applied these Remedies, and I have great reason to believe they might have proved serviceable: if you think fit to recommend the use of them unto any of your Acquaintance, I don't doubt but they may be procured at London.  
FINIS.