The Charitable Pestmaster; Or, The Cure of the Plague: Conteining a few short and necessary instructions how to preserve the body from infection of the plagve, as also to cure those that are infected. Together with a little treatise concerning the cure of the small pox.Sherwood, Thomas, Practitioner in physick
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The Charitable Pestmaster; Or, The Cure of the Plague: Conteining a few short and necessary instructions how to preserve the body from infection of the plagve, as also to cure those that are infected. Together with a little treatise concerning the cure of the small pox.
Sherwood, Thomas, Practitioner in physick
Plague -- Early works to 1800; Smallpox -- Early works to 1800
Thoſe that deſire further information concerning any particulars not
expreſſed at larg in this brief Treatiſe, they ſhall be fully
ſatisfied, if they repaire to the Author living in Hony-ſuckle Court
in Grub-ſtreet, where he hath by Chimicall Art prepared ſix
Catholicall Medicines, with which hee cureth the Peſtilence, ſmall
Pox, and moſt curable diſeaſes whatſoever.
_1 Vomitivum Benedictum._
This Medicine being taken from five graines to eight, in ſome
convenient diſtilled water or wine, or elſe with ſome Conſerve or
Pill, doth ſafely purge upwards and downwards, ſo that it may be given
to a Childe, of three or foure yeeres of age: it cureth all diſeaſes
that ariſe from the foulneſſe of the ſtomack, and is good in the
beginning of the Peſtilence, ſmall Pox, or any Fever, or Ague.
_2 Catharticum Catholicum._
The doſe of it is from ten grains to twenty, it purgeth gently by
ſtoole, and clenſeth the lower belly from all offenſive humours, &
cureth the French Pox, Scurvy, Jaundis, and Dropſie, alſo it freeth
children from Worms.
_3 Diureticum Aperitivum._
This openeth all obſtructions of the body, but chiefly of the Liver,
Spleen, Reines, and Bladder, it cureth the Jaundis and the Rickets in
children, alſo it helpeth thoſe that cannot make water.
_4 Diaphoreticum Cordiale._
This being given in a ſmall doſe doth gently provoke ſweat, expelleth
all venomous humours from the heart outwardly, and driveth out the
ſmall Pox, thruſteth out the tumours in the Peſtilence, and ſome it
cureth without bringing forth a Riſing.
_5 Quinta Eſſentia vitæ._
This reviveth the vitall ſpirits, and hath an admirable vertue in
fortifying the heart againſt all infectious, & venemous vapours; ſo
that it is good for thoſe that have occaſiõ to viſit ſick people. If
ten or twelve drops thereof be taken in a mornings draught it
preſerveth the body from infection, and if twenty or thirty drops of
it bee given to the ſicke of the Peſtilence, within the ſpace of ſixe
houres after they are infected, they ſhall be cured in one hour, as I
have often proved: it driveth out the ſmall Pox, and cureth the ſick
without ſweating.
_6 Iulapium Reſtaurativum._
By the vertue this Medicine hath in reſiſting the putrifaction of
humours, it doth cure all ſorts of Fevers and Agues, it may be given
in any time of the diſeaſe, but eſpecially in the latter end of the
ſickneſſe, when no other Medicine can be adminiſtred without danger.
With it I have cured the Hectick Fever, and thoſe that have faln into
the Relapſe of the ſmall Pox, and ſuch as have been nigh unto death,
by reaſon of violent Fevers.
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Any of the aforeſaid Medicines, the Author adminiſtreth both outwardly
and inwardly in many ſeverall wayes and manners, according to the age,
temperature, complexion, and diſpoſition, of the bodie; and according
to the nature, degrees, and time of the diſeaſe.
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