The Kitchin-physician, or, A guide for good-housewives in maintaining their families in health wherein are described the natures, causes, and symptoms of all diseases, inward and outward, incident to the bodies of men, women, and children : prescribing natural, useful and proper medicines, both in physick and chirurgery, as well for the prevention as speedy cure of the said distempers : adorned with sculptures ... / published for the common good ... by T.K., Doctor in Physick.

72. Against Quotidian Feavers.

It is good to drink (a little before the fit cometh) the juyce of Betony and Plan∣tine leaves; or to drink in the morning a Decoction of the Roots of Ladies-mark, Parsley, Radish, and Asparagus, the leaves of Betony and Harts-tongue, red Spanish Pease, and the middle bark of an Alder-tree.

Or, drink every morning and night, two leaves of five-fingers Herb, with a draught of white-wine: or the Roots of Poppies, and drink a draught thereof about an hour before the fit comes; and in the mean time forbear sleeping. Also bind upon the pulse of the Arms, a Pultise

made of noble Say, Hysop, Wormwood, Parsley, Mint, and three-leaved-grass with white spots; pound these with wine-vi∣neger to a Poultis, and make thereof small plaisters for the pulses.