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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.

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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.

Name: 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.
Author: W. J.

W. J.

Plague -- Prevention -- Early works to 1800

49. _How to make a drink to cauſe one to ſweat._          1

          50. _How to make a drink eaſie for the poor of
               low price._                                          1

          51. _How to provoke ſweat and heal the Plague._           1

          52. _An excellent preſervative againſt the Plague._       1

          53. _Another againſt the Plague._                         1

          54. _How to make another preſervative againſt the
               Plague._                                             1

          55. _Another preſervative againſt the Plague._            1

          56. _How to make a good water againſt the Plague
               or Surfeite._                                        1

          57. _How to purifie the Air in a Plague time._            1

CHAP. 1.

  _An approved Remedy againſt the Peſtilence be it never ſo
  vehement._

Take an Ounion and cut him overthwart, then make a little hole in each
peece, the which you ſhall fill with fine Triacle, then ſet the pieces
together again as they were before, then wrap them in a white linnen
cloth. Putting it ſo to Roaſt in the Embers and Aſhes, then when it is
Roaſted enough preſs out all the juice of it: and give the patient a
ſpoonful thereof to drink, and ſo by Gods help he ſhall feel eaſe and
moſt undoubtedly be healed.

CHAP. 2.

  _A very good perfume againſt the Plague._

Take Maſtick, Cyprus, Incence, Mace, Wormwood, Mirrhe, Lignum Aloe,
Tegname Muſk, Ambergreiſe, Timioma, Nutmugges, Mirtle-tree, Bay-tree,
Roſemary, Saige, Roſes, Elder, Cloves, Juniper, Rue, Pitch, and a kind
of Raw-pitch, called in Latine _Raſiſe_, ſtamp all theſe together mixe
them well ſet them on the embers, or Coles and ſo perfume the Chamber.

CHAP. 3.

  _Another very good Remedy againſt the Plague._

Take the Ripe berries of a Bay-tree, then pill off the black ſkin that
is upon them, beat them into powder with a little Salt, and as ſoon
as the party perceiveth himſelf infected with the Plague, and that he
begin to have a hot Fevor, he muſt take a ſpoonful of the ſaid powder,
mixt with a little Vineger and water, let him heat it a little and
drinke it, and then covering himſelf warm ſleep, ſleeping ſoundly by
Gods help he ſhall be cured in a ſhort time, but if the Fevor come with
a cold, inſtead of Vineger he muſt take wine, and then do as is ſaid
before, this hath been experimented on many in the laſt great Plague
time.

CHAP. 4.

  _For him that is ſick of the Plague._

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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.

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