A good Emplaister to ripen and break the Sores.
First take the hearb Crows-foot, make it into a poultis, by bruising it soft with a Pestil, in a cloath; This will draw it, and blister the skin.
The meanes of preventing, and preserving from, and curing of the most contagious disease, called the plague with the pestilential feaver, and the fearfull symptomes, and accidents, incident thereunto. Also some prayers, and meditations upon death.
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- The meanes of preventing, and preserving from, and curing of the most contagious disease, called the plague with the pestilential feaver, and the fearfull symptomes, and accidents, incident thereunto. Also some prayers, and meditations upon death.
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- M. R.
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- London :: printed for H. Million, at the Half Moon in the Old Bayley,
- 1665.
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- Plague -- Prevention -- Early works to 1800.
- Meditations -- Early works to 1800.
- Prayer -- Early works to 1800.
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"The meanes of preventing, and preserving from, and curing of the most contagious disease, called the plague with the pestilential feaver, and the fearfull symptomes, and accidents, incident thereunto. Also some prayers, and meditations upon death." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A58209.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 23, 2024.
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Secondly, again, Mustard-seed and Pidgeons-dung, well beaten together, with a little Swines fat mixed, and applyed warm, do much draw forward a Botch, or Carbunkle.
Thirdly, Take Plantain leaves, or roots for want of leaves, a good quantity, and shred them small, then bruise them well, and strain out the juyce, with crums of bread, houshold leavened bread, boiled in the fore-said juyce, or in the juyce of Sorrel is as good; Make a poultesse of this and apply it, ad∣ding in the boyling some Barrows grease, apply it very warm, shift it three or four times a day; It asswageth the pain, draw∣eth the venom out.