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 a Spoonful or two of_ Treacle-Water, _or_ Vinegar, _or both
mix'd; give fifteen or twenty Drops of_ Spirit of Harts-horn, _or
of the simple Mixture from half a Dram to a Dram; or of_ Balsam of
Sulphur, _from ten to twenty Drops, or fifteen Drops of_ Elixir
Proprietatis.
For the Poorer sort, make _Posset-Drink_ with Pestilential _Vinegar_,
and boyl in it some _Butter-Roots_, and give a Draught hot.
Or make this Potion which =Henricus a Bra= magnifies above all other
Remedies, from the Experience of it in a great Plague once raging in
his Country.
_Take_ Celandine _and_ Rue, _of each one handful_, Marigold Flowers
_half a handful; boyl these in a Quart of_ White-Wine Vinegar; _strain
it out, and keep it in a Glass Bottle; give two or three Spoonfuls; in
which dissolve of_ Venice Treacle, _or_ Mithridate, _one Dram_. This
will provoke Sweat very powerfully.
Some others commend a Decoction of _Guaiacum_, to provoke Sweat with
it, as in the cure of the _French Pox_.
A plain Decoction of _Rue_ in _White Wine_, with a little _Vinegar_
added to it, is highly commended by others.
Seeds of _Rue_ pouder'd, and one Dram of it mix'd with half a Dram
of _Treacle_, dissolv'd with _White-Wine_, is accounted an excellent
Sudorifick.
Sudorifick Medicines may be given in =Pouder= thus.
_Take of_ Virginian Snakeweed, Contrayerva, _and_ Gascoigne _Pouder,
or_ Lady Kent's _Pouder, of each one Scruple; give it in two Spoonfuls
of Posset Drink, or of a Cordial Julep, or in_ Syrup of Gilloflowers.
_Take_ Pouder of prepar'd Toad _one Dram_, Pouder of Hyacinth _half a
Dram_: Mingle them.
_Take of_ Bezoartica Mineralis _half an Ounce, of_ Species Liberans
_two Scruples_, Camphire _eight Grains_: Mingle them.
_Take of the_ Flower of Sal Armoniac _half a Scruple, of_ Cerusse of
Antimony _one Scruple, of_ Bole Armenick _one Scruple_: Mingle them.
Give any of these in a Spoonful or two of any Liquor, or in a Spoonful
of _Sack_, with as much Pestilential _Vinegar_; half an hour after,
drink a draught of Posset-Drink with _Medesweet_, or _Woodsorrel_
boyl'd in it.
_Take of the_ Pouder of Ivy Berries _one Dram; give it in a draught of
warm_ White-Wine, _with a Spoonful of Pestilential_ Vinegar.
_Take_ Pouder of the Roots of Carline Thistle; _Give it in the same
manner_.
_Likewise_ Pouder of Butter Burr Root, _given in the same manner,
provoketh Sweat powerfully, and expelleth the Poyson of the Plague_.
_Take of_ Zedoary Root _that is gummy and sound, one Ounce_, Sugar
Candy _one Ounce and an half_, Camphire _half an Ounce; mix all in a
fine Pouder:_ The Dose is one Dram in some distill'd Water.
If the Patient can best take his Medicine in a =Bolus=.
_Take of_ Venice Treacle _one Dram_, Tormentile Roots, Bole prepar'd,
_of each one Scruple_, Syrup of Gilloflowers _as much as sufficeth_.
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