A Collection of Seven and Fifty approved Receipts Good against the Plague: Taken out of the five books of that renowned Dr. Don Alexes secrets, for the benefit of the poorer sort of people of these nations. — John Shaqi
A Collection of Seven and Fifty approved Receipts Good against the Plague: Taken out of the five books of that renowned Dr. Don Alexes secrets, for the benefit of the poorer sort of people of these nations.W. J.
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A Collection of Seven and Fifty approved Receipts Good against the Plague: Taken out of the five books of that renowned Dr. Don Alexes secrets, for the benefit of the poorer sort of people of these nations.
W. J.
Plague -- Prevention -- Early works to 1800
Take three Ounces of the Liquor of the inner rinde of an Aſh tree and
ſtill it with three Ounces of white Wine, give the patient to drink of
it every three hours and by Gods help within twenty four hours he ſhall
be well.
CHAP. 29.
_Another againſt the Plague._
Take three Ounces of Walnuts that be not yet full ripe, prepared and
diſtilled at Midſomer, and let the patient drink thereof and he ſhall
be whole, but it will be better to take the outward pills of Walnuts in
_September_ when they be black, ſo that they be not rotten, and diſtill
them and give the patient a glaſſfull thereof to drink very warm he
being let blood this will help him much.
CHAP. 30.
_A preſervative in time of Peſtilence, and againſt all
venome or poyſon, and againſt the biting of a mad Dog._
If you eat before meals a Walnut or two, two dry Figs, and ſome
leaves of Garden Rue with a corn of Salt, it will be a great and good
preſervative againſt the Plague, and againſt all poyſon that a man
eateth, the ſame being ſtamped and laid to the byting of a mad Dog it
healeth it, ſo do Nutmukes work the like effect.
CHAP. 31.
_An approved compoſition as well to preſerve as to heal,
very good in the time of a contagious Plague._
Take an Ounce of the beſt Triacle, half an Ounce of the juce of Lemons,
a Scruple of Saforne, a little of the two ſorts of Pearls, Red Corall
and Sorrell ſeed, of each half a dram, two grains of Camphere, mingle
all theſe together very well with two or three drops of Odeferious
white wine, and make thereof an ointment, ſpread a quantity thereof
upon a piece of Crimſon ſilke lay this hot upon the patients heart and
remove it morning and evening.
CHAP. 32.
_Another moſt excellent Compoſition, and a very good
preſervative againſt the Peſtilence often tried and
experienced._
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