A purging drink for superstuous humours, for Aches in the joynts, sinewes, and for Agues.
Take Sarsaperilla, Sasafrass, Polipodium, of each a handfull,
A treatise concerning the plague and the pox discovering as well the meanes how to preserve from the danger of these infectious contagions, as also how to cure those which are infected with either of them.
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- Title
- A treatise concerning the plague and the pox discovering as well the meanes how to preserve from the danger of these infectious contagions, as also how to cure those which are infected with either of them.
- Author
- Edwards, 17th cent.
- Publication
- London :: Printed by Gartrude Dawson,
- 1652.
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- Plague.
- Medicine -- Early works to 1800.
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"A treatise concerning the plague and the pox discovering as well the meanes how to preserve from the danger of these infectious contagions, as also how to cure those which are infected with either of them." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A37944.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 3, 2024.
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Hermodactiles the third part of an ounce, Licorice one ounce, cut and slice the above named, and put them into a new Pip∣kin glassed, and having a cover, and put the•…•…o five quarts of spring water, let all infuse four and twenty houres, then put thereto of Fennell seed two ounces, Raisins of the Sun stoned and picked four ounces, Carduus benedictus, red Sage, Agri∣mony, Maiden-hair, of each a handfull, put all into the Pipkin, and close it with paste, set it within a pan of warm water on the fire, and let it boyle two houres, then put thereto of Sena one ounce, let it boyle again half a quarter of an hour, and take it out, letting it stand covered two houres, then strain it with∣out wringing, and keep it in a glasse or stone bottle.
You must take at a time half a pint in the morning, and fast one hour after, it will not purge in five or six houres, you may use it at any time in the year, but in extream heat, and in frosts.