virulency that the child breathes out at his mouth, be impact in the little holes of the teat through which the milk flowes out. Now the pustules of little children shall bee anointed with some ointment that receives argentum vivum in some small quantity, as unguentum enulatum cum mercurio, or the like. Then shall it be swathed or bound up in swathes and clothes aired with the formerly described fumigations. For the rest, it shall be kept as warm as you can in some warm place. These & the like must be done not in one continued course, but at severall seasons, otherwise it is to be feared, that it would cause ulcers to arise in the mouth, or else salivation. If any ulcers arise in the mouth and spread therein, they shall be touched with the formerly described waters, but made somewhat weaker, having regard to the tender age of the patient; if the in∣fant shall get this disease of its nurse, let the nurse be presently changed, for it being o∣therwise nourished with tainted and virulent bloud, can never be healed. Many have by these meanes recovered; but such as have perisht, have not perisht by the default of medicines, but by the malignity and vehemency of the disease.
A description of the aqua Theriacalis, or treacle water formerly mentioned.
℞. rasur. interior. ligni sancti gummosi, lb ii. polypod. querni, ℥ iv. vini albi dulcedi∣nis expertis lb ii. aqua font an. puriss. lb viii. aquar. cichor. & fumar. an. ℥ iv. sem. junip. heder. & baccar. lauri an. ℥ ii. caryophil. & macis, an. ℥ ss. cort. citri saccharo condit. cons. ros. anthos, cichor. buglos. borag. an. ℥ ss. cons. anulae camp. th••riac. vet. & mithrid. an. ℥ ii. distill them all in balneo Mariae after the following manner. Let the Guaja∣cum bee infused in equall parts of wine and the forementioned waters for the space of twelve houres, and the residue of the things in that which remaines of the same wine and waters for sixe houres space, beating such things as may require it, then let them bee mixed altogether, that so the liquor may be endued with all their faculties. Which that it may be the more effectually performed, let them be boyled, put up in glasse bottles closely stopped for some three or four hours space, in a large kettle filled with boiling water, then let them be put into a glasse alembicke, and so distilled. Give ℥ iv. of this distilled liquor at once, being aromatized with ʒi. of ci∣namon, and ℈ i. of Diamargariton, and ℥ ss. of sugar, to give it a pleasing taste. Such a drinke doth not onely retunde the virulency of the Lues venerea, but strengthens the noble parts. Rondeletius makes an aqua theriacalis after this manner. ℞. theriac. vet: lb i. acetos. m iii. rad. gram. ℥ iii. puleg. card. ben. an. m ii. flor. chamaem. p ii. tem∣perentur omnia in vino albo, & distillentur in vase vitrio: reserve the water for use; whereof let the patient take ℥ ii. with ℥ iii. of sorrell and buglosse water: he wisheth this to be done when he shall enter into bed or a stove; for so this distilled liquor will cause sweat more easily, and mitigate paine, whether given by it selfe, or with a de∣coction of Grommell, or of chyna, or burre-docke roots; yet if the patient bee of a phlegmaticke constitution, hee shall use a decoction of Guajacum in stead of a de∣coction of chyna, for it penetrates more speedily, by reason of its subtlety, of parts, and also expells the dolorificke matter.