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The natures, uses, & doses of several approved and experienced medicines, faithfully prepared by John Spire, junr. medicinæ professor. To which is added, a catalogue of various chymical preparations, by him always ready prepared
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Spire, John, apothecary.
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1698
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Wing S4988; ESTC R219129
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as will lye upon a Groat an hour before the Fit and Sweat plentifully in bed drinking a little Rosemary Marygold or Cardus Posset-drink which being continued four or five times generally takes it off For Fluxes and such Distempers in Women as debilitate their Strength take a Pill in a glass of Sack mull'd with Cinamon -For the Gout and Rheumatisms of the whole Body take a Pill in a glass of Rhenish-wine drinking sometimes of our Aqua-Vitae Magistralis this generally eases at twice taking it divides also clods of Blood and breaks inward Imposthumes carrying off their matter and heals them as also Bruises and Squats For difficulty of making Water the Strangury Stone or Gravel in the Kidnies dissolve 2 Pills the bigness of 2 large grey Peas in a pint of White-wine and sweeten it with 5 or 6 Ounces of Syrup of Marsh-mallows and let it be for 2 draughts with 3 hours Intermission in the most violent pain drinking often a draught of posset-drink wherein is boyled some Pelitory of the wall and a few Gromwel seeds at the discretion of the Patient keeping your self warm in Bed always when it 's taken and so will the Offending matter be carried off For Children within 3 or 4 Years Old you may give the bigness of a Pepper Corn and so it may be increased or diminished in it's Dose according to the Wisdom and Discretion of the Parent Price 12 d. the Box. ☞ Observe Always when you take of this Pill to take some of our Cordial Drops in a glass of Sack or other Cordial Water to refresh the Spirits III. Aqua Bezoratica Our Cordial or Plague Water 1 THis Cordial is good in Sadness Melancholly and Dejection of mind pains of the Spleen reviving the Spirits 2. It powerfully resists Poison Plague Small-Pox and all sorts of malign Fevers it cures the biting of Venomous Beasts 3. It is a good Stomachick Comforts the Head Brain and Bowels it causes a good Appetite taking away Sickness at Heart and Stomach it 's profitable against Swoonings fainting Suffocacations and Fits of the Mother 4. This Water is Sudorifick Alexipharmick and Antifebritick It is also a Cordial Cephalick and a great Restorative and is excellent against cold and moist Diseases It 's Vse and Dose YOu may take from half a Spoonful to ◠Spoonfuls or more in the morning Fasting a little before Dinner and at bed time it may be also taken at any time of the Day or Night upon any Fainting or Sickness at Stomach as occasion requires or in any languishing Conditions It may be taken alone or in case of great weakness in a glass of Canary Price Sixpence the Ounce IV. Panacea Nostri Or Our Prevalent Emetick and Cathartick Pouder THe Virtue and Nature whereof is such that it expells all Contagious and Malignant Humours by the Emunctories viz. by Vomit Stool Sweat and Urine and that after a most friendly and pleasant way few Doses whereof will radically cleanse the Body and Blood from the original cause of old chronick and Hereditary Diseases as the Epilepsie Convulsion Madness Schrophula or the Disease called the King 's Evil Leprosy or any foulness or corruption of the Blood French-Pox and other most grievous Diseases as Ulcers Fistula's Noli me Tangere's and in all kinds of Diseases in Men and Women except Women with Child of what Nature soever they be It 's Vse and Dose FOr any of the aforesaid chronick Diseases let the Body be once or twice well purged with our Sal Lenitium then after 3 Days respite take a Paper of this Pouder in the pulp of an Apple or prune a little fine Sugar or Syrup of Gilly-flowers and if in case at any time this Medicine should not have any visible Operation at all yet never the less it will perform its Office and drive forth the Distemper Now if the Disease be Rebellious it must be continued to be taken every 5th Day and the intermitting 3d Day take a Dose of our Balsamick Pill as 't is prescribed this method doth very well For the Scurvy Pox Gonorrheae and inveterate Ulcers For Agues let it be taken 2 hours before the Fit to cleanse the Body and to perfect the Cure proceed as is directed in the use of the Pill For Fits and Convulsions in Children let it be taken in Breast-milk and not exceeding the weight of a Rape-seed It may be given to New-born Infants but as they increase in strength so may the Dose be somewhat increased at the discretion of the Parent For Children of 3 or 4 Years of Age give the 3d part of a Paper For those of 7 8 or 9 give half a Paper always observing to take Posset-drink freely during the Operation The Paper contains 3 Doses at 2 s. 6 d. V. Elixer Magnum Cordialis Or Our Great and Famous Cordial Drops BEing a wonderful Arcanum whose Virtue and Prevalency hath been powerful in these following Diseases as the Falling-sickness Apoplexy Lethargy Palsey Convulsions and most other Diseases of the Head Brain and Nerves they cure the Vapours in Women and Fits of the Mother they remove Ostructions and pains of Spleen they are also an admirable Remedy in the Plague Spotted-fever Small-pox and Measles or any malignant Fever resisting putrifaction of the Blood which have been confirmed by about 19 Years Experience in our daily Practice c. It 's Vse and Dose TAke as follows from 4 drops to 12 14 20 25 or 30 to 60. in Canary or any other proper Cordial and for the diseases of the Head let it be taken in a Cephalick Cordial and also let the Temples and Nostrils be bathed therewith For Children that are like to have the Small-pox give this Medicine to bring out the Distemper increasing or diminishing the Dose as you see convenient in a glass of Sack hot Mace-ale or some convenient Cordial disposing the party for Sweat drinking often a good draught of hot posset-drink and boyl there in Marygold-flowers a top of Balm Angelica and Rosemary in Surfeits let it be taken in the manner aforesaid observing that the Stomach be first cleansed by often taking of our Aq. vitae Magistralis for Children that are inclined to Rickets or breeding of their Teeth give some drops in a little syr of Cowslips or Poppies In intermitting Fevers give above 60 drops in a glass of Sack or Rhenish Wine In continual Fevers give it every 6 hours in the manner aforesaid always minding to take at the hour of rest a small Dose of our Balsamick pill as also our Pulvis Antefibriticus according to directions in its place In Consumptions and great Weakness take 40 or 50 drops Mornings and Nights in a glass of Canary as also 2 or 3 times a Day for the space of 40 Days together ☞ Observe Women with Child may safely take this Medicine Price four Shillings the Bottle VI. Pulvis Antifebriticus Noster Or our General Febrifuge 1. AN admirable pouder against Fevers of all sorts A few Doses thereof