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A short treatise shewing the causes and remedies of that general disease spread abroad throughout this nation, commonly termed by many the plague of the guts but it is very probable to bee that sort of flux, called by the name of dysenteria, or red-flux. With some other remarkable remedies for other diseases worthy to bee noted. Published by N.H. of Dorchester, in the county of Dorset for the good of those that desire their health. Try and trust. Try man as the instrument, but trust God as the helper.
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bee it spoken it is nothing else or nothing lesse than the Flux in the bowels in that I finde it takes them in the same manner as it did those that had the Flux in Ireland and are now cured with the same Remedies And for the better understanding hereof I shall here set down 1 Briefly and in general what a Flux it 2 The several kinde of Fluxes together with their causes that you may discern thereby the one from the other and what little probability there is that it should bee the Plague of the Guts 3 The Remedy for this or any of the like Disease so called though inferior unto it 4 The ordering of the body afterward in case of the worst though I never found any danger to ensue Of the Flux in general If it come through much eating or drinking or through Flegmatick matter it cometh not often nor continueth long hee needeth no remedy unless it bee caused of overmuch weakness Of the Flux Lyenteria to wit Cholle and Flegme This is an infirmity of the retentive vertue of the stomack with the slipperiness of the Guts whereby the ment being taken very suddenly without digestion like as it was received passeth away by stool Of the Flux or Laske Diarrhea This is a waterish Lask with griping but without excoriation of the bowels and without heat whereby the body is consumed It is caused of all humors of the body Of the Flux or Laske called Dysenteria viz. The Red-Flux And this is the Flux which by likelihood is this Disease which is spread abroad in this Nation This is an exulceration or excoriation of the intrals And is described in this manner It is a pain of the intrals which inflameth sretteth and excoriateth the same so as with the matter of the scouring blood is avoyded and it causeth much gnawing which causeth the Pattern to go often to stool The causes are sharp humors which passeth through the bowels and there exulcerateth the same frâ—â— and take away the fatness Also when the body is over-charged with Choller Melancholy and Flegme of which nature seeks to unburthen her self Another kinde of Dysenteria or Bloody-Flux This cometh without scraping of the Guts and of much more blood than the former wherefore it is rather taken for the Flux of the Liver than Dysenteria though wrongfully so called For an ordinary Laske or Flux in Children or griping * Take half a handfull of Couch-grass cut fit to boyl of Carraway-seed and Fennel-seed bruised or Anniseed instead of the Fennel-seed if it cannot be had of each half an ounce nine or ten Plantaine leaves washed and cut boyl these in a quart of water to a pinte then strain it after put in of your Pomgranet ryne poudred of Cynnamon poudred of each as much as will lye on a groat and a quarter of a pinte of milk or less and set it over the fire again and let it boyl for the space of halfe a quarter of an hour then take it off the fire and let the childe drink of it warm morning and evening A special Remedy for the cure of the Flux called Dysenteria or for any other Flux * Take the inner ryne of an Oak one great handfull Anniseed and Carraway-seed bruised alike one ounce of Couch-grass cut fit to boyl one great handful of Plantane washed and cut one little handful boyl these in a pottle of water to a quart then strain it and put it over the fire again and put in a quarter of a pinte of milk to sweeten it something because of the rankness of the grass as also Cynnamon poudred and Sanguis Draconis or Dragons blood of each as much as will lye on six pence let it boyl again half a quarter of an hour Drink of this a good draught first and last warm fasting in the morning two hours after and two or three houres after supper ere you go to bed Note this that you may not bee deceived your Couch-grass is not your Knot grass for that will do more hurt than good but it is your Long-grass which runs upon the ground with sweet knots or knobs For a Flax in extremity with never so great gripings and the party worn away Take of Almonds one pound blancht and stampt in a Mortar small twelve yolks of new laid Eggs roasted hard bray them together take a pinte of strong Vinegar put it into the stuffe and mingle them altogether and put all into a fair pot of earth but remember to stamp it well then take five or six spoonfulls at once warm in a cup and drink four or five times a day if need be Probaâ—â—â—â— est Although this Receit cannot chuse but bee good in it selfe yet it hath not been tryed by mee as often as the former Remedy In all these Fluxes you may make use of this white Plaister if you please and partly because it is good for many special uses besides this disease of the Flux and partly because children are not so subject to take inward applications as outward therefore I shall â—erâ— set down how it is made with the Remedies thereof Take of the best Sâ—llâ—â— oyl a quart and four ounces Red-lead and White-lead alike one pound well beaten into fine dust Cape-soap or Castle-soap finely sliced twelve ounces mingle these well together in an earthen pipkin well glazed it must hold a gallon to hold this quantity â—â—ir it with an Iron ball having a handle to it when this is well mingled together the Soap comeâ—â— upward then set it upon a fire of â—oâ—ls an hour and halâ— still stirring it till the redness hee turned into a gray colour then drop a drop of it upon a trencher and if it cleave unto the trencher it is enough then pour it out by little and little upon a table and with a little fresh grease anoint your hands and the table make it up â—â—roules as fast as you can keep it for your use two or three yeares the elder the better But you according to your need you may take an equal quantity of each whether lesse or more I 〈◊〉 of this bâ—â— by the way It being laid to the stomack provokes appetite it taketh a way any griefâ—â— or about the stomack It is a prâ—â—â—â—â— melody for the Coâ—lick it being appiled to the belly And being laid to the reâ—neâ— of the back it easeth the bloody-flux the running of the Relâ—â—s the hâ—â—â— of the Kidneyes the weakness of the back It healeth all swellings and bruises It drieth away running humors without breaking of the skin It taketh away all aches It breaketh fellons and other impostumes and healeth them being laid to the head it is good for the Evill It helpeth the headach and good for eyes This in a Manuscript There was once a Gentlewoman extraordinarily perplexed night and day with such inward gripings and frettings for the â—pice of almost half a year as I was truly informed by her husband so as that the pain with the
A SHORT TREATISE SHEWING The Causes and Remedies of that General Disease spread abroad throughout this Nation commonly termed by many the Plague of the Guts But it is very probable to bee that sort of Flux called by the name of Dysenteria or Red-Flux With some other remarkable Remedies for other Diseases worthy to bee noted Published by N. H. of Dorchester in the County of Dorset for the good of those that desire their Health Try and Trust Try man as the Instrument but trust God as the Helper LONDON Printed for R. Ibbitson 1658. TO THE CHRISTIAN READER OR Any one to whom these Presence shall come Health and Peace bee multiplied Christian Reader I Have as a Minister or servant unto thee prescribed away if thou wilt hearken to me as from God for thy good to bee a Physitian unto thee both for soul and body if thou wilt give thy heart to receive wholesome counsel and advice from God and my self by using and putting into practice what is here set down in this following Treatise The great and wise God knowing the inward frame and temper of all mens hearts knows how to suite an outward judgement upon any particular person much more upon a whole Nation according to the inward distemper of the heart and soul of man There is as I am informed a general Loosness amongst persons and that not or a few but many with terrible gripings in the body may not this fitly intimate and put us in minde of that general Loosness not onely in Religion for matter of Worship but also a great Loosness and Liberty in matter of Life and Conversation by giving way to the satisfying of the flesh and this is seen not only amongst prophane ones from whom wee can expect but little better but hath been and still is found even amongst those which have made Profession of the Truth and have been accounted as Professors of the same amongst them that are truly godly whereby they have fretted and grieved the Spirit of the Lord and have caused the Name of God to bee evill spoken of And this evill is not found onely in one corner of the Land but generally throughout all the parts thereof and therefore as the sin is so is the plague or punishment not onely in the City of London and the places adjoyning but it is spread here and there over the whole Nation Wherefore I think it is good for us to look about us and to see the hand that smites seeing it is not a mediate but an immediate judgement from God himself and therefore especially to bee sought unto And because it may bee those that are in Authority have too much winked at and have not put in execution the Law of God to wit against Blasphemy c. Therefore God hath now taken the power into his own hand and hath taken away many by death even those amongst others that were never guilty of any such horrible Crimes it may bee for the sins of others The people of the Lord were punished for the sin of Achaâ— and yet as far as wee know some of them whose names were written in the Book of Life Wherefore Christian Reader I would if I could advise thee as from the Lord that thou consider seriously of these things and desire true understanding from God The Plague is general and it requires general repentance not onely by a publick humiliation but every family and person a part by themselves with seeking and turning unto God Those that finde themselves guilty to bethink themselves especially and labour to amend for though the hand of God is not upon them in particular or whether it may or may not bee and so they may escape yet it may bee for their sakes that the hand of the Lord is gone out against others And for those that have kept close to God whom God have preserved and have not yet fallen from their first Love labor stil to keep sure footing for holiness of life and soundness of doctrine That the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ may run on and bee glorified amongst them which are truly sanctified and to mourn in secret for Gods afflicting hand over his people A word to the wise is sufficient if so bee thou art wise for thy self and I am thine as thou art thy self in the Lord N. H. A short TREATISE SHEWING The Causes and Remedies of that general Disease spread abroad throughout this Nation commonly termed by many the Plague of the Guts but it is very probable to be that sort of Flux called by the name of Dysenteria or Red-Flux WHereas I am credibly informed that the Lord hath visited this Nation with a certain Disease not onely in the City of London but generally throughout the whole Nation I thought it my duty in charity through the instigation of certain friends to publish to the view of those whom it may concern as children and others of riper years certain remedies which I have by my own experience found out for many years since which was never before now made known unto the world and being made use of as it hath been upon many persons heretofore and upon some persons of late I never failed to my knowledge the first or second day within the space of eight and forty hours but it hath ceased and stopt without any prejudice to the person which may seem to follow by reason of the suddenness of the cure or any costiveness which I know will bee objected and feared by many And although the things prescribed for the cure of this Disease are mean and common yet think not meanly of those weak means which may through the blessing of God produce strange and wonderful effects And take this for a truth that although the Disease have held for a month or two or for a quarter of a year or more those two receits which are mentioned or set down with the mark of a star above the rest hath and as far as I know may through the blessing of God remedy this Disease according to the time before prescribed or sooner as I have found by experience the same night And besides this I have found for many years since that those persons which have accustomed themselves to Physick barely and nothing else have for the most part of them dyed though some have lingered a long time in it to wit two or three months And during that time they have been in extream torments by reason of those contrary humors and inward gripings of the Guts which have brought them to a Consumption of the whole and so have finished their end in such extream torments as cannot well bee expressed There are as I am informed many Physitians which terme this Disease to bee the Plague of the Guts the reason as I suppose is because most Physitians have not been acquainted with this Disease in this Nation though it is common in Ireland and as I have heard in Scotland but in plain in submission