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Loimologia: Or, an Historical Account of the Plague in London in 1665: With Precautionary Directions Against the Like ContagionHodges, Nathaniel

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Loimologia: Or, an Historical Account of the Plague in London in 1665: With Precautionary Directions Against the Like Contagion

Name: Loimologia: Or, an Historical Account of the Plague in London in 1665: With Precautionary Directions Against the Like Contagion
Author: Hodges, Nathaniel

Hodges, Nathaniel

Plague -- England -- London -- Early works to 1800

℞ _Pulv. rad. angelicæ, summit. rorism. & lavendulæ cum floribus ana +ʒ
ij.+ caryophyll. +ʒ iiij.+ labdæni puriss. Styracis ana +ʒ iij.+ omnibus
præp. in commixtione adde ol. nucis mosch. per express. +ʒ j. [ss.]+ ol.
ligni rhod. +℈ ij.+ camphoræ +ʒ [ss.]+ moschi +gr. viij.+ cum ceræ opt. p.
s. F. massa._ Some likewise would smell to _Galbanum_, _Oil of Wormwood_,
or _Rue_, as also the Oil or Spirit drawn from _Pitch_, and dropped upon
Cotton, to be kept in a close Ivory Box. Yet I could not so much approve
of these Things, as they were used; because they so much dilated the Pores
of the olfactory Organs, as to give more Liberty for the pestilential
_Miasmata_ to pass in along with them.

THE Purification of Houses was contrived to be done several Ways; but what
I most approved of, was in placing a Chafing-dish in the Middle of a Room,
or the Entries, or Windows, where proper Things were burnt, and exhaled
all round. Quicklime was likewise thrown into the following Decoction.

℞ _Fol. Scordii, Angelicæ ana +M iij.+ summit. lauri, rutæ, lavendulæ ana
+M j. [ss.]+ flor. rosar. pallid. sambuci ana +p. ij.+ calami aromat. +ʒ v.+
Caryophyll. Contus. +ʒ iij.+ F. decoctio in duabus p. aq. font. & tertiâ
aceti rosac. vel Sambuc. consimiliter ac lagenæ, à mucore, & setu calcis
extinctione mundantur, ita ut liquorem inditum amplius vitient, &
corrumpant._ For as soon as the Lime is thrown in, it raises a very
penetrating Steam, which seemed very likely to destroy the Efficacy of the
pestilential _Miasmata_. For the same Purpose likewise were the following
very judiciously contrived.

℞ _Salis petræ +lib. j.+ Sulphuris +℥ iij.+ benzoin. Styracis simul
liquati. ana q. s. ut formentur s. a. Trochisc. deb. exiccandi._

                                _FINIS._




                                 OF THE
                            Different Causes
                                   OF
                         PESTILENTIAL DISEASES,
                    And how they become Contagious.

                                  WITH
                                REMARKS
                       Upon the INFECTION now in
                               _FRANCE_,

                     And the most probable Means to
                       prevent its Spreading here.

                         By JOHN QUINCY, M. D.

                               _LONDON:_

      Printed for _E. Bell_, at the _Cross Keys_ in _Cornhill_; and
        _J. Osborn_, at the _Oxford-Arms_ in _Lombard-street_,
        1720.


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                                 OF THE

                            Different Causes

                                   OF

                      _Pestilential Diseases_, &c.

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Loimologia: Or, an Historical Account of the Plague in London in 1665: With Precautionary Directions Against the Like ContagionHodges, Nathaniel

History

Loimologia: Or, an Historical Account of the Plague in London in 1665: With Precautionary Directions Against the Like Contagion

Hodges, Nathaniel

Plague -- England -- London -- Early works to 1800

℞ _Pulv. rad. angelicæ, summit. rorism. & lavendulæ cum floribus ana +ʒ
ij.+ caryophyll. +ʒ iiij.+ labdæni puriss. Styracis ana +ʒ iij.+ omnibus
præp. in commixtione adde ol. nucis mosch. per express. +ʒ j. [ss.]+ ol.
ligni rhod. +℈ ij.+ camphoræ +ʒ [ss.]+ moschi +gr. viij.+ cum ceræ opt. p.
s. F. massa._ Some likewise would smell to _Galbanum_, _Oil of Wormwood_,
or _Rue_, as also the Oil or Spirit drawn from _Pitch_, and dropped upon
Cotton, to be kept in a close Ivory Box. Yet I could not so much approve
of these Things, as they were used; because they so much dilated the Pores
of the olfactory Organs, as to give more Liberty for the pestilential
_Miasmata_ to pass in along with them.

THE Purification of Houses was contrived to be done several Ways; but what
I most approved of, was in placing a Chafing-dish in the Middle of a Room,
or the Entries, or Windows, where proper Things were burnt, and exhaled
all round. Quicklime was likewise thrown into the following Decoction.

℞ _Fol. Scordii, Angelicæ ana +M iij.+ summit. lauri, rutæ, lavendulæ ana
+M j. [ss.]+ flor. rosar. pallid. sambuci ana +p. ij.+ calami aromat. +ʒ v.+
Caryophyll. Contus. +ʒ iij.+ F. decoctio in duabus p. aq. font. & tertiâ
aceti rosac. vel Sambuc. consimiliter ac lagenæ, à mucore, & setu calcis
extinctione mundantur, ita ut liquorem inditum amplius vitient, &
corrumpant._ For as soon as the Lime is thrown in, it raises a very
penetrating Steam, which seemed very likely to destroy the Efficacy of the
pestilential _Miasmata_. For the same Purpose likewise were the following
very judiciously contrived.

℞ _Salis petræ +lib. j.+ Sulphuris +℥ iij.+ benzoin. Styracis simul
liquati. ana q. s. ut formentur s. a. Trochisc. deb. exiccandi._

                                _FINIS._




                                 OF THE
                            Different Causes
                                   OF
                         PESTILENTIAL DISEASES,
                    And how they become Contagious.

                                  WITH
                                REMARKS
                       Upon the INFECTION now in
                               _FRANCE_,

                     And the most probable Means to
                       prevent its Spreading here.

                         By JOHN QUINCY, M. D.

                               _LONDON:_

      Printed for _E. Bell_, at the _Cross Keys_ in _Cornhill_; and
        _J. Osborn_, at the _Oxford-Arms_ in _Lombard-street_,
        1720.


[Illustration]




                                 OF THE

                            Different Causes

                                   OF

                      _Pestilential Diseases_, &c.

Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.

Loimologia: Or, an Historical Account of the Plague in London in 1665: With Precautionary Directions Against the Like Contagion

Loimologia: Or, an Historical Account of the Plague in London in 1665: With Precautionary Directions Against the Like Contagion

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