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Take Cinnamon, Nutmeg, each half an ounce; Mace, Cloves, each two drams; powder all together grossly and sew up in a round bag. To these may be conveniently be added dry'd Spearmint 2 handfuls, Wormwood half a handful.
This being heated hot upon a Warming Pan lid, and sprinkled with Canary or Claret, and so applied to the Stomach, resuscitates natural Heat, helps Appetite and Digestion, and stops Vomitting.
Take Seeds of Cummin, Gromwel, each 2 ounces; Nigella 2 drams; Bay-Salt 6 drams; prapare for a Bag, which heat hot, and rub the Head with, and lay it hot upon the top of the Head.
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Its useful against a Catarrh, Tumour of the Amygdals, relaxation of the Uvula, and Inflammation of the Throat.
Frenelius saith, Besides Serum within the Cranium, there's Excrement gathered in the external parts of the Head; especially under the Cutis of the Vertex, where the Vessels have their Extremities. For they grow Turgid with too much Serum or other Humour, they shed forth under the Skin that which they cannot carry off, and there it remains, because the thickness and closeness of the Cutis permits it not to Evaporate. And there's sometimes do great a Collection here, that it causes a soft Swelling, that manifestly heaves off the Pericranium from the Cranium. This is assuredly the Source, this the Matter of external Destillation, which I marvel none of the Ancients observ'd. Hence Rheumes fall into the Eyes, Cheek, Teeth, Neck, Shoulder-blades, Sides, Back, Loins, Hips, Thighs and all the Joints: And this is found to be the Cause of almost every external Pain. This being a singular Opinion of Frenelius, Carolus Piso de colluvie serosa, deserves reading:
I quote it that others may consider it.
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Take Bay-berries, Seeds of Cummin, Fenugreek, and Camomile Flowers, each 1 handful; Bran, Salt, each 2 handfuls: This may serve to put into 2 Bags.
Let these be made hot, and applied alternately to the side, when outwardly pained. But if there be bloody Spitting, we must beware of hot Applications.
Take dry'd Mint half an ounce; Wormwood, Thyme, Red Rose Flowers, each 2 drams; Balaustines, Spanish Angelica Root, Caraway Seed, Nutmeg, Mace, Cloves, each 1 dram; make a course Powder for a bag.
It serves for the same uses with the Stomach Fomentation; and is to be dip'd in rough red Wine scalding hot, and apply'd.
Take Cummin Seed 2 ounces; Orris, long Pepper, each half an ounce; make a gross Powder for a Bag.
Its to be laid upon the top of the Head. See the Cephalick Liniment.
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Take Frankincense 2 ounces; Mastick, Cloves, Gallingale, Mace, Cubebs, each half an ounce; Aloes Wood 1 ounces; powder and mix them with Honey half a pound; Venice Turpentine 1 pound, and Brandy, as much as is usually required to extract a Tincture. Distill them in Balneo; and when you have got all the clear Water, shift your Receiver, and then you'l have next a noble red Balsam, which rectifie.
This was communicated to me by a French Physician, who recommended it thus. A few Drops applied, Cures all curable Wounds in 24 hours; and old Ulcers, Fistula's, Cancers, Wolf in the Breast, Noli me Tangere, in 15 Days, using it daily. It is also good against the Carbuncles, and extinguisheth them in 3 Hours. One drop drop'd into the Eyes every third Day, heals all Maladies of the Eyes. 'Tis to be given inwardly from 5 to 10 Drops for all Bruises, inward Bleedings, Consumptions, and Nervous Affections. Thus Travelers will Talk, but 'tis Experience and Reason must Teach.
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Take Oil of sweet Almonds new drawn 4 ounces; Oil of white Poppy and Linseed new drawn, each 2 ounces, Oil of Nutmegs by expression half an ounce; Oil of Petre 5 drams; Balsam of Capivy 6 drams; Balsam of Peru 2 drams, Oil of Juniper 4 scruple; Oil of Anniseed 1 dram; Oil of Vitriol rectify'd 1 ounce; Camphire 2 scruples.
Work them about in a large Glass Mortar 'till they are very hot, and grow black; when they are cool again, digest in Balneo 2 Days, often shaking them; and so put the Balsam up to keep for use.
But these may be sooner mix'd, by first heating the Oils a little in Balneo 'till they are united, and then while it is so; adding the Oil of Vitriol drop by drop, and stiring 'till all are embodied together.
This most excellent Balsam is found to be very effectual in pains of the Kidneys; for it sets open their Sluces, and makes the Ureters slippery, and provokes Urine, and moves the Stone. Also it cures the Maladies of the Chest, for it helps Expectoration, and stops a Cough.
Its Dose is from 10 to 40 Drops, in Syrup of Marsh-Mallows or pectoral Decoction.
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Take Volatile Salt of Hartshorn and of Sal Armoniak, each 1 dram; Chymical Oil of Mace 1 scruple; highly rectify'd Spirit of Wine 1 ounce; Digest according to Art.
Its a sort of Sal Volatile Oleosum, to be Dosed from 20 to 30 drops, and taken in a Vehicle suitable to the intention, against Pituitose Distempers of the Brain and Neves; Stuffing and Heaviness of the Head by a Cold, Palsy. As also against Palpitation of the Heart, Hypochondriac and Hysteric Affections.
In a word, it may be useful where ever Volatile enlivening Salts are indicated.
Take Conserve of red Roses, Lucatellus's Balsam, each half a dram; Balsam of Peru 3 drops, mix.
Its a prevailing Medicine against an inveterate Cough, and recent Consumption, Spitting of Blood, Dysentery, Contusion; and wheresoever the Vessels being opened, or broken bleed inwardly.
Take Sperma Ceti 1 scruple; Salt of Harthorn 5 grains; Balsam of Peru 5 drops;
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Venice Treacle half a dram; Syrup of Meconium as much as needful to make up with.
It dissolveth clotted Blood, and heals internal Wounds, provokes Sweat and Urine, is very good for Women after Labour, let those that have caught a Bruise, take it 3 times a Day after Bleeding.
For Bruises, Dr. Sydenham Bleeds and Purges, by turns each other Day, ' till the Party find himself pretty easy and well: And I judge it a rational Practice, though not found in other Authors: For Bleeding prevents a Fever, and sucks out of the part whatsoever can be absorbed into the Veins. And Purging carrieth off such Humours, as would otherwise settle in the weak part and cause Pain and Swelling.
Take Pulp of Cassia fresh drawn 6 drams; Venice Turpentine (washed in Parsley Water) 3 drams; Powder of Rhubarb 1 scruple; Powder of Liquorice as much as wants to make it of a due consistence.
Its prescrib'd in Case of Gravel, and in a Gonorrhea.
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Take Mynsichts extract of Mars half a scruple; Balm of Gilead 6 drops; Conserve of Roses 1 dram, mix.
In failure of Appetite, languishing and wasting of Flesh (where there is no Hectick Fever) its to be given once or twice a Day for a Month together.
Take Powder of a Crabs-claw compound, Goa Stone, each half a scruple; Powdered Saffron 5 grains; make it up with Confectio Alkermes.
It forceth Sweat, and at the same time gives Strength to bear it, for it recreates the languishing Spirits, and is a fine Cordial. Its of excellent and frequent use in continual Fevers, where the Spirits are, (from the beginning) struck as with Malignity; the Strength strangely failing, the pulse low, the Urine pale, and Heat not much increased.
It's to be taken from every 12, to every 2 hours, 'till it be found that Nature riseth; and when that point is once gain'd, it must not be over-done, but left off again by Degrees, according as the present case requires. For in such a Fever necessary,
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that a Physician give constant attendance to make due Observation, and strike his blows right.
Take Ens Veneris, Spikenard, each 7 grains and a half; Conserve of Borage Flowers 1 dram, mix.
Take it twice a Day for a Month, drinking upon it a draught of some proper Julep, or of the Splanchnic Decoction, which see.
Take Castor, Asa Foetida, each 1 scruple; Saffron 4 grains; Salt of Amber 6 grains; London Laudanum 2 grains; Oil of Amber 1 drop; Syrup of Mugwort, as much as suficeth for a Bolus, to be taken at resting time.
An eminent Physician prescrib'd this often in Hysteric Cases: And I conceive its very well adapted to an Hysteric Colic.
Take powder'd Jalap from 1 scruple to half a dram; Scammony powder'd from 3 grains to 8; Calomel 15 grains; Oil of Aniseed 1 drop; Lenitive electuary as much as is fit to make it up with.
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By increasing or diminishing the Jalap and Scammony, its to be made stronger or weaker, according to the present Constitution requireth. It worketh pretty smartly; and therefore purgeth not only what lieth loose in the Ventricle and Intestines, but other Humours likewise, from the Bilious and Pancreatick Passages, and especially from the Glands of the Guts.
Take powder'd Virginia Snake root 15 grains; Venice Treacle half a dram; Oil of Nutmegs 2 drops; Liquid Laudanum 15 drops; Diacodium as much as wanting to make it up with.
Its an egregious powerful Sudorific, and we have few comparable to it. Its one of the highest Alexipharmacs, and a great Medicine in malignant Fevers, especially when attended with a Diarrhea: Besides all this, it's also a Stomachic, Cardiac and Hysteric.
Take running Mercury well cleansed 1 dram; grind it in a glass Mortar, with brown Sugar, 2 drams; 'till its Particles are so finely divided as to be invisible; towards the last dropping in 2 drops of Oil of sweet Almonds, to
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It looks like a most noble Medicine: But I'll ingenuously confess, I never prescib'd it my self, nor knew it prescrib'd by any other. 'Twas communicated to me, and I communicate it again.
Take Rhubarb (not toasted, but grated fine) from 1 scruple to 2; Oil of Cinnamon 1 drop; Diascodium sufficient to make it up.
Its a most efficacious Remedy in a Diarrhea, to be given (if the Diarrhea be not much) at Night, otherwise early in the Morning, and may be repeated according as the case shall require.
See the compound Infusion of Rhubarb.
Take candy'd Eryngo roots 2 ounces; Roots of China, Scorzonera, Currants and Dates, each 1 ounce; shavings of Harts- horn and Ivory, each half an ounce; the four greater cold Seeds, each 2 drams; Maiden Hair 2 handfuls; the bottom of a stale white Loaf, a Cock (pick'd, drawn and well bruised, so as the bones may be broken) boil all these in Barly Water,
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from 3 quarts to 3 pints; then having strain'd add Canary 1 pint; Electuary of Sassaphras, Juice of Kermes, each half an ounce; Syrup of Balsam, as much as sufficeth: mix them.
Take a Capon (pick'd, drawn, and cut into pieces) Sheeps Trotters and Calves Feet, each 4; Shavings of Harts-horn and Ivory, each half an ounce; yellow Sanders 3 drams; Dates 20; Raisins of the Sun stoned 4 ounces; Pearl Barley 1 ounce; boil these in Spring-Water 1 gallon to 2 quarts, adding when its almost boil'd enough, Ox-Eye Flowers dried, Herbs of Colts Foot, Maiden Hair, Sage of Jerusalem, each 1 handful; Mace 2 Blades; 1 Nutmeg, Malaga Sack 1 pint; strain it out.
Its a commodious Prescription for those that are Sickly, Consumptive, and recovering out of some long wasting Distemper; where Strength failing, rich Nourishment is requir'd, and yet the Stomach is not able to concoct solid Food; for its Digested with little trouble, assimulated without effervescence, easily distributed, soon agglutinated, and not presently dissipated by the Heat of the Body. Moreover it yields such a soft, kindly, rorid and glutinous Juice, that it qualifies the saline, hard, pricking Particles of the
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Blood; and so obviscates, mollifies and restrains their impetuous Torrent in the small Canals, that they cannot (by rushing and rubbing through) prey upon, and carry off the Substance of the solid Parts. A large draught may be allow'd twice or thrice a Day.
Take Conserve of Red Roses 4 ounces; Comfrey root 2 ounces; Shavings of Harts-horn 1 ounce; Maiden Hair 1 handful; Sage of Jerusalem 2 handfuls; Plantain half a handful; Raisins of the Sun 2 ounces; Dates 4; Boil these together with a chicken, the crag end of a Neck of Mutton, and three ounces of Manchet in a sufficient quantity of Spring-Water; and the strain it, and when it is cold take off the Fat.
Let the Sick drink a Porrenger full, two or three times a Day.
Take 100 Crayfish, having pounded them alive in a Mortar, boil them in 2 quarts of Water to 1 quart and half a pint, adding towards the last 2 blades of Mace, 1 Nutmeg sliced, and old Malaga half a pint; strain it, and let the Patient sup up a draught of it twice a Day.
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Take the Tails of 20 Crayfish, Candied Eryngo roots 1 ounce; the bottom of a white Loaf; Raisins stoned 2 ounces; Liquorice 3 drams; boil all these in 3 pints of Water to 1 quart, and strain it.
Let 4 or 6 ounces be taken, three times a Day. After the same manner may be made Broth of Snails.
There's so great an Edulcorating Virue in Crayfish, Crabs and Lobsters, that they manifest obtund the acidity of Vinegar itself, when put in a Sawcer of it. And being reciev'd into our Bodies, wonderfully take off the bitter Pains of the Strangury: And in a Hectick Fever and Atrophy thence arising, where the Mass of Blood ( being depriv'd of it Nourishing, Kindly, Sweet and Oleose Juice, and being grown Eager) Flushes Flies, Ferments and Furnished out a poor little Provision of Aliment, and that deprav'd too; these sort of Broths are found exceeding useful. Some hold also, that they are good to prevent Abortion.