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 Aloes probæ, and Lote, two ounces, one ounce of Saforne, one
ounce of good Mirrhe, or elſe Mirrhe and Ammoniacum, diſolved in white
wine of each half an ounce, mixe them together with hony Roſet, but in
winter you may put Zedoaria, Agallochi, or Red Sandis of each of them
a dram, but in ſummer take away the Mirrhe and Amoniacum and put to
it bole Armoniacke prepared three drams, half a dram of Red Corrall
with a ſcruple of Camphere to take commonly a pill or two before your
meals, ſometimes a dram after your firſt ſleep as you ſhall prove by
experience.
CHAP. 35.
_Antidotes or Medicines, and comfortable preſervative of
ſmall coſt eaſie to find that poor people may prepare for
themſelves._
1. Take Garlick and drink a little wine after it, or a Fig with a
Walnut and Rue and a little ſalt ſpecially in winter. 2. Take twenty
leaves of Rue with two Walnuts and as many Figs and a grain of Salt
all being mixt together receive it in the morning. 3. Take ſix
leaves of Rue with Vineger. 4. Take the Root of the herb called in
Latine Imperatora, of ſum Laſcopitium, Gallicum. 5. Take the Root of
Angelica. 6. The Roots of Gentian. 7. The Root of Zedarie. 8. Of Cardus
Benedictus. 9. Of Garlina. 10. Take the herb called Scordium in ſmall
powder the quantity of a dram, either in a ſoft maſs made with ſodden
honey and vineger, or with ſome ſirrup as of Lemons or in Opiat the
bigneſs of a Cheſnut, or of a ſmall Peaſe with wine in winter, in
ſummer with Roſe water, or with the juce of Sorrell. 11. Sorrell alone
or with Pimpernell in Vineger and drink of it in the morning. 12. Or
the juce of them wherewith you may make a taſte in ſummer. 13. Or
Juniper berries, the leaves of green Pimpernell of Bittany of Pulegion
of Sorrell of each a like quantity brayed together and ſodden in honey,
put thereto a little Vineger like a conſerve.
CHAP. 36.
_Another rare Medicine._
Take Juniper berries, bole Armoniack, of each two drams or of both
alike quantity being ſtamped lay it in ſweet oyl and Vineger or in
Oxmillite, in the mean form either Opiat or maſs. If it be Opiat take
as much as a Cheſtnut, if it be Maſs take one great Pill, and drink
after it a little Hidromill or Oximill or wine.
CHAP. 37.
_It is requiſite to ſpeak ſomething of a ſavour and ſweet
ſmell; as powders balls waters and perfumes, and firſt of
a powder for many purpoſes._
Take four ounces of Iviſe Florientiana, of Margrom Cloves and Red Roſes
of each an ounce of Milliſſophilie, Nuciſe Odoratee or Muſcate Zedorie,
Cinamon Agallochi, yellow, Sanders, Maſtick Storax Calamita and
Bengroin, half an ounce of each, and two ſcruples of Juncus odoratus,
Calami odoravie, Syici Nardiradiciſe one dram of each.
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