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
_Or take of_ Conserve of Red Roses _four Ounces, of_ prepar'd Coral
_two Drams, of_ prepar'd Pearl _half a Dram_, Confection of Hyacinth
and Alkermes, _of each one Dram, of_ Tormentil Vinegar _half an Ounce;
or as much as is sufficient:_ Make it up into an Electuary: Give once
in three or four hours as much as a Nutmeg.
These kinds of Remedies, which are proper in _Hæmorrhages_, are also
to be used in _Fluxes_ of the Belly; likewise by Women with Child,
because other more hot Medicines may provoke an Abortion.
Make =Tormentil Vinegar= thus.
_Take_ Roots of Tormentil, Bistort _dried and sliced, of each an
Ounce_, Cinnamon _half an Ounce_, Red Sanders _one Dram: Bruise all
very well, and put to it a Quart of_ White-Wine Vinegar; _digest it
in a common Furnace for four days: At the same time take_ Red and
White Coral finely pouder'd, _of each half an Ounce;_ Dragons Blood,
Blood-Stone, _of each one Dram_; Fine Bole, _two Drams: Digest these
in the same manner with a_ Quart of Vinegar: Then strain out both the
Liquors, and mix them.
Let =Extract= of =Tormentil= Roots be made thus.
_Take_ Tormentil _and_ Bistort-Roots, _of each one Ounce_; of Cinnamon
_half an Ounce_, of Red Sanders _two Drams_, Salt of Wormwood _half
an Ounce; bruise all together, adding of_ Tormentil Vinegar _two
Ounces; put it in a Vessel to digest with three Pints of_ Medesweet
Water: _Strain it, and evaporate it with a gentle heat in_ Balneo
Mariæ _to the Consistency of Honey_.
In the Cure of the Plague, if a course of Sweating, timely administred,
do plentifully succeed, and withal other private Excretions be either
prevented or presently supprest, the Patient may be judg'd to be in a
hopeful condition; and sometimes the Venom is quite expell'd, without
any other accident: But for the most part, because the Poyson, by
fermenting the Blood and Humours, is soon greatly encreas'd; so that
all of it, especially the grosser Particles, cannot easily evaporate,
it settles in the outward Parts, and there causeth the swelling and
breaking out of divers kinds: Those that require any application of
Remedies, are =Boils= and =Carbuncles=.
The first of these commonly happen in Parts that are very Glandulous;
as behind the Ears, under the Armpits, and in the Groin: They arise
with a hard Swelling, which ought to suppurate and break, and the
Corruption to be drawn all out, by the running of the Sore for some
time: These Tumors call'd =Bubo's=, should be ordered thus.
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