An Account of the causes of some particular rebellious distempers viz. the scurvey, cancers in women's breasts, &c. vapours, and melancholy, &c. weaknesses in women, &c. gout, fistula in ano, dropsy, agues, &c. : together with the vertues and uses of a select number of chymical medicines studiously prepar'd for their cure and adapted to the constitutions and temperaments of all ages and both sexes / by an eminent practitioner in physick, surgery and chymistry ...

Directions for taking the Vegetable Powder, and applying the Plaisters.

A Man or Woman may take a whole Paper at a time, which must always be taken in a Glass of hot Wine, an Hour or two before the Fit, and be cover'd up warm; whereupon it will cause in some gentle Vomiting and Sweat, in others only Sweat, in others will only work by Urine, but which way so∣ever it operates, it never falls short of expectation, cu∣ring almost all Agues without using any thing else; but where the Case is inveterate, and has been of long standing, we are forc'd to apply the Plaisters also, which I shall by and by give Directions about.

One of 12 or 15 Years of Age, may take two thirds of a Paper: those of younger Years in proportion, al∣ways giving it in Wine as before directed; and is to be repeated to every one for 5 or 6 times, more or less, as the Ague is severe, or has been of longer or shorter continuance, tho' not one Ague in twenty requires its being taken above three times.

Note, There is no occasion to drink any thing with it, more than the few Spoonfuls of Wine, just to mix it and make it drinkable, which may be White Wine or any other Wine, proportioning the quantity, as the Patient is either a grown Person or Child. A grown

Person taking it in 6 or 8 Spoonfuls, and always as hot as it can be well drank.

The Plaisters to the Wrists, must be prepared and applyed thus: To all the Powder in the Box and the whole Yolk of a new laid Egg, which mix and beat up well together in a Mortar or Porringer •••••••••••• rating them well together, adding so much 〈…〉〈…〉 and strongest Vineger as will be sufficient to make it into such a consistency as Venice Treacle is; then spread it pretty thick upon a Linnen Cloth of 2 or 3 Inches broad for a grown Person, but narrower for Children, which apply upon the Pulses of both Wrists, tying them on, so as not to come off, where they must remain without changing them, for nine Days, because this Remedy exerts its vertues but by degrees. And it ought to be applyed an Hour or half an Hour before the Fit comes, and if the Ague be not cur'd in nine Days, to be laid on afresh.

The Price of the Vegetable Powder is 2s. 6d. a Paper, and the Box of Powder for Plaisters is 3 s. 6d. both to be had at the Place afore-mentioned.

Note, These Plaisters to the Wrists frequently, I may say generally, Cure all forts of Agues (unless they be of ve∣ry long standing indeed, and attended with other In∣dispositions) without any inward Medicine at all, but where there is a complication of Infirmities, besides the Ague, that the Stomach is foul and Blood injur'd, there is a necessity for an inward Medicine, than which no∣thing can exceed the Vegetable Powder before-menti∣oned, and will do a hundred times more Service, and is a thousand times more safer than Jesuits Bark, or a∣ny other Medicine whatsoever.