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
will be far greater then the ſmall Pox do uſe to be; yet none of them
will pit except they be much tampered withal, or picked with the
nails. But if ſo be that thoſe which have white heads do burn and rage
extreamly, you may prick their heads with a Needle and let out the
corruption: there is nothing elſe to be done with thoſe upon whom they
are come out, and the Fever abated but that they keepe themſelves
warm, ſit ſtill and be quiet.
But if that the ſick hath not gone to ſtool in a long time: before you
give him this Cordiall to ſweat, you ſhall cauſe him to goe to ſtoole
by a clyſter, or elſe which is better by a Suppoſitor made with Honey
and Salt, or a Violet Comfit. And if the ſicke bee yong, ſtrong, and
full of bloud, you ſhall without danger doe very well, if you draw
from him eight or ten ounces of bloud before you lay him to ſweat; for
then the Cordiall will have more power, room, and liberty, to play
upon the diſeaſe, and will the ſooner and better drive out the Pox. If
the _quinteſſentia vitæ_ be given in the waters of Roſes, Burrage, or
Bugloſſe, it will drive out the ſmall Pox without ſweating, and cure
the ſick immediatly.
But if the ſmall Pox be come forth, and that the Fever continue in his
full vigour ſtill, ſo that the ſick doth not amend, but grow worſe and
worſe, then you ſhall not give them any hot Medicines inwardly, nor
any thing that doth provoke ſweat; for now hot cordiall Medicines will
encreaſe the Fever (and in the beginning they would have quenched the
Fever) and turn all the humours of the body into the matter of the
ſmall Pox; ſo that there is nothing but a miſerable death likely to
follow, oftentimes accompanied with the Peſtilence.
This evill is much practiſed by thoſe women that pretẽd they wil drive
the ſmal Pox further out, when they are come out already. Wherefore
they do but beget the Fever again, and where there are but ten they
will make a thouſand. Therefore be carefull in this caſe, what you do,
and give to the ſick every hower nothing elſe but two or three
ſpoonefulls of Roſe water, ſweetened with a little ſugar. This will
coole the body, quench the Fever, cauſe reſt, and then a ſtoole, and
thereby the ſick ſhall recover preſently. By theſe meanes I have cured
many very ſuddenly that have been dangerouſly ſick in all mens ſight
even to Death, as many in the City can beare mee witneſſe.
As I have warned you not to give many hot things when the ſmall Pox
are come forth, ſo I would have you beware of giving thoſe that are
very cold, as the waters of Plantane, Letice, Purſlane, Poppy, and the
like; which (as I have Knowne) have relieved many for the preſent, and
wrought an admirable cure in the ſight of the common people; but by
their cold qualities, they have ſo congealed and ſetled the humours in
the body, that the ſick will never be healthfull all the daies of
their lives, as I could inſtance in many.
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