A Plain and Easie Method for Preserving (by God's Blessing) Those That Are Well from the Infection of the Plague, or Any Contagious Distemper, in City, Camp, Fleet, Etc., and for Curing Such as Are Infected with It.Willis, Thomas
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A Plain and Easie Method for Preserving (by God's Blessing) Those That Are Well from the Infection of the Plague, or Any Contagious Distemper, in City, Camp, Fleet, Etc., and for Curing Such as Are Infected with It.
Willis, Thomas
Plague -- Early works to 1800
_Take_ Diascordium, Confectio Liberans, _of each half a Dram, or
two Scruples_, Salt of Wormwood _one Scruple_, Conserve of Roses
_vitriolated half a Dram_, Syrup of Gilloflowers _as much as is
sufficient_.
_Take of_ Conserve of Roses _half a Dram_, Balsam of Sulphur,
_fifteen Drops; mix them_. Take Posset Drink half an hour, or an hour
after any of these.
When many People are sick, and there is not leisure to compound every
Dose of these Medicines severally, there should be a large mixture of
each kind made up together, which may immediately, and without trouble
be distributed into Doses.
_For Sweating Potions thus._
_Take a Quart of_ Small Plague _Water, of_ Compound _Water of_
Scordium _and Pestilential_ Vinegar, _of each a Quarter of a Pint,
of_ Syrup of Gilloflowers _two Ounces_, Venice Treacle _one Ounce,
of_ Diascordium _and_ Confectio Liberans, _of each half an Ounce_,
Pestilential Extract, Salt of Wormwood, _of each two Drams; put all
together in a large Glass, shake them well together, and after it has
stood Four and Twenty Hours, make use of it: Pour out three Ounces of
the clear, and two Ounces of it turbid or shaken just before:_ This
may serve for fourteen or sixteen days.
_Mix a_ =Pouder= _thus_.
_Take of the_ Pouder of Confectio Liberans, _one Ounce_, Roots of
Contrayerva, Virginian-Snakeweed, Tormentile, Bole prepar'd, _of each
two Drams, of the_ Claws of Crabs _pouder'd, half an Ounce, mix all
very well_. The Dose is from one Dram to one Dram and a half, or two
Drams.
_Or take of the Pouders of Prepar'd_ Toad _one Ounce, and of_
Confectio Liberans _half an Ounce, mix them_. The Dose is from one
Dram to one Dram and a half.
For an _Electuary_ to be distributed into several Doses, that of
=Hermannus Vander Heyden= is a very good one, and as he asserts,
approved by frequent Experience.
_Take of_ Diascordium _one Ounce and a half, of_ Venice Treacle _two
Drams, of_ Confectio Hyacinthi _one Dram_, Pouder of Nutmegs, Rue
_Seeds_, Root of Angelica, Enulacampane, _of each one Dram and a
half_, Wine Vinegar (_or rather_ Pestilential Vinegar) _one Ounce_,
Oyl of Sulphur _fifteen drops_, Syrup of Juice of Citron _as much as
sufficeth: make up all together_. The Dose is from one Dram and a half
to two Drams.
_Or take of_ Conserve of Wood Sorrel, _half a Pound, of_ Mithridate
_four Ounces_. The Dose is two Drams.
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