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
In time of Sweating, give the Patient Posset Drink made with
Pestilential _Vinegar_; boyl in the Milk _Scordium_ or _Marigold_
Flowers; if he is very dry, boyl _Medesweet_, or _Wood Sorrel_; if he
is ill at Stomach, and apt to vomit or faint, give _Claret_ Wine burnt
with _Cinnamon_ and _Zedoary_ Root, and _Mint_ Water mix'd with it:
Or else give him _Beer_ boyl'd with a Crust of _Bread_ and _Mace_, and
sweetn'd with _Sugar_. Besides, to the richer sort give now and then
a draught of a _Cordial Julep_, and sometimes a Dose of a _Cordial
Electuary_; which kind of Medicines should be given likewise after
Sweating is over, once in three or four hours, of one or other, to
refresh the Spirits, and to keep the Malignity from the Heart. Give him
no cold _Beer_ in two or three days. After Sweating wash the Mouth with
_White-wine Vinegar_ and _Rose Water_: Also dip a Spunge in the same
warm, and gently stroke the Temples of the Head, and Nostrils with the
same. Between whiles give of the Medicines following.
_Take_ Woodsorrel Water, _and_ Dragon-Water, _of each Four Ounces_;
Scordium Water, _two Ounces_; Treacle Water (_or_ Plague Water) _one
Ounce and a half;_ Syrup of Gilloflowers (_or of_ Juice of Citrons)
_two Ounces_; Pearle finely pouder'd _one Scruple_; Spirit of Vitriol
_twelve Drops: Mix them_.
_Or make a_ =Decoction= _thus._
_Take of_ Harts-Horn rasp'd, _and_ Ivory, _of each three Drams; a_
Pear main _sliced_, Woodsorrel _half an handful: Boyl these in three
Pints of Water, till a third part is wasted; Strain it on two Ounces
of_ Conserve _of_ Gilloflowers, _or_ Woodsorrel, _or_ Red Roses: _Let
it infuse an hour: then stir it, and strain it out: Give a Quarter of
a Pint warm_.
Whereas we give _Emulsions_ made with such a Decoction and _Almonds_,
and cold Seeds in Fevers, =Diemerbroek= affirms, upon his frequent
Observation, _Emulsions_ never do well in the Plague.
_Take of the_ Conserve of Woodsorrel _four ounces, of the_ Rob of
Goosberries _or_ Rasberries _two Ounces_, Species Diarrhodon Abbatis
_two Drams_, Confectionis Liberantis _one Dram and a half, of_
Prepar'd Pearl _half a Dram_, Red Coral prepar'd _one Dram, with a
sufficient quantity of_ Syrup of Juice of Citron: Let it be made an
Opiate: The Dose is one or two Drams often in a day.
Sometimes the Plague is accompanied with dangerous Symptoms, to which
if Remedies are not suddenly applied, all we do besides is to little
purpose. Such Accidents, which call for respective ways of Cure, are
chiefly _Fluxes of Blood_, and _Loosness of the Belly_, and _Vomiting_.
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