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
_1 Here are preſcribed certain approved remedies for the cure of
the Peſtilence, 2 The order and manner how to uſe them._
Whoſoever ſhal perceive their bodies infected with the Plague, let
them take on the firſt day of the ſickneſſe the vomit, in that order
and manner as it is laid down in the firſt Chapter. And after it hath
done working with them, they ſhal find themſelves as well as ever
they were in their lives: for it clenſeth the ſtomack and bowels from
al corrupt humours, which is one of the chiefeſt cauſes of the
ſicknes. But if the ſick be weak and cannot bear a vomit, it ſhall be
good to give him one dram of the foreſaid _pillulæ peſtilentiales_, or
inſtead thereof one dram of _Aloes_, you may give it either in pill or
in potion, according as the ſick can beſt take it, and in the working
of it let him drink ſome warm broth.
But if it be ſo, that this courſe hath been neglected the firſt day,
or beyond the time of 24 houres, it will bee in vaine to uſe it the
ſecond day: Yea, it will bee dangerous, ſeeing that the infection is
diſperſed by the bloud throughout all the Veines of the bodie.
Therefore on the ſecond day of Viſitation it ſhall bee good to draw
from the Median Veine of the arme ſo much bloud as the patient can
endure to bleed: and if the ſicke hath not gone to the ſtoole during
the time of his ſickneſſe, you ſhall give him either before or after
bleeding this Clyſter. _Take of Beets, Violet leaves, Burrage,
Bugloſſe, Scabios, of each one handfull, French barley one ounce;
boyle all theſe in a ſufficient quantitie of water untill it be halfe
conſumed, then ſtrain it, and take three quarters of a pint of the
decoction, and put to it of the Electuary of Hierapicra five or ſixe
drams, oile of Rue one dram, red Sugar one ounce, the yolk of an egge,
and a little ſalt; ſo make you a Clyſter thereof and adminiſter it
bloud warme._ Alſo you may adminiſter to the ſick this Clyſter. _Boyle
an handfull of Rue in a pint of poſſet drinke, and put to it a piece
of ſweet butter, a little honey, the yolke of an egge, and a thimble
full of ſalt; make a clyſter and adminiſter it bloud warme._
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