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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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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
THE Natures Uses Doses Of Several APPROVED and EXPERIENCED Medicines Faithfully PREPARED By JOHN SPIRE junr. Medicinae Professor To which is Added A CATALOGUE of Various Chymical PREPARATIONS By him always ready Prepared LONDON Printed by Benja Harris Senr. in Great East-cheap for the AUTHOR 1698. TO THE Courteous READER HAving thro' the Blessing of God from whom alone cometh every good and perfect Gift upon my Endeavours obtained thro' much Labour great Study and Experience the Knowledge of several Specifick Medicines or Arcanum's effectual for the Extirpating and Rooting out the Original Causes of Tedious and Chronical Distempers Being Friendly to Nature pacifying the inraged Archeus thereby Conquering the Fury of most Diseases incident to Human Bodies I might have Quoted the Names and Places of divers Persons that have been Cured by these Medicines herein mentioned but shall Desist and leave ev'ry Prudent Experiencer to speak of them as they find only Desiring they would Communicate their Vertues to their Neighbours Being Published for the Necessities of such who many times Languish under the Burden of Diseases for want of true Medicines So to that Eternal Invisible and Incomprehensible Word of GOD by which All Things were Made do I Recommend every One Wishing them Health and Comfort here and Eternal Happiness hereafter and Subscribe my Self Thine in all Real Service J. S. THE Natures Uses Doses Of Several MEDICINES I. Aqua-Vitae Magistralis Or Our Magisterial Water IT is an abstersive Medicine of a powerful Nature cleansing and strengthning the Stomach effectual in opening Obstructions it is Sudorefick and Diuretick 't is very good in Fevers especially in the Putrid in Palsies Epilepsies and the Plague resisting Corruption in Apoplexies Lethargy and Stupification of the Spirits stoppages in the Breast Surfeits Rheumatism Stone and Strangury Chollick Oppression of Wind Loathing of the Food Pleurisies without Blood-letting and for Women with Child and in their Travail as also after they be Delivered This Medicine hath prov'd it self a successful Remedy in many of the afore-said Maladies as many in several parts of England can Testify to their great Satisfaction It 's Vse and Dose THe ordinary Dose to Man or Woman in any of the aforesaid Diseases is generally 2 or 3 Spoonfuls observing for those that cannot bear with the strength thereof they may allay it with 1 or 2 spoonfuls of Balm or Mint Water or white Wine or clean Spring Water in all Distempers that call for speedy relief as Surfeits c. take it 2 or 3 times in an hour for the Stone take it every half hour for 2 hours space then rest 2 or 3 hours and repeat it as before drinking sometimes a little Chamomile posset-drink i. e. the Flowers boyled In Pleurisies take every half hour till Relief be found observing to apply some hot Chamomile fryed or heated being first sprinkled with a little Vinegar to the side taking once in 24 hours a dose of the Balsamick Pill in the method hereafter prescribed For Women when they go with Child take it in the morning and 2 hours after Dinner for a Week together then rest about 4 days and repeat as before in their Travail the pains being slow give 2 spoonfuls 3 times in an hour and for after-pains give it often For Children that are troubled with Wind mix a little of it with Fennel or Spere-mint water sweetned that it may but just tast of it and then give a spoonful as often as need requires In Windiness of the Stomach which causeth Vapours in the Head take 2 or 3 times in a Day In Apoplexies and Lethargies take it frequently and apply a linnen Cloth dipt in the same to the Temples In the Gout pains apply the same mixed with equal quantity of strong Brandy often to the place afflicted and take of it about 4 times in a Day as directed ☞ Observe If in any of the aforesaid Diseases the Medicine provokes Vomiting repeat the Dose immediately and so take it again and again till the last Dose stayes never be Daunted but go on with it always minding to take this Medicine in the beginning of any Sickness in order to disperse the same Price Three Shillings the Pint Bottle II. Pilulae Samech Or The Friendly Balsamick Pill WHose Nature and Virtues are such that it Operates as Nature would have it in order to cleanse the Body from the root of Diseases viz. by Sweat Urine and Stool sometimes by Vomit and other times by insensible Transpiration according as the Occasional Matter wants to be carried off 'T is a most noble Preparation being exalted to the true Intention of Healing For such is it's Property that it first works as an Anodine and allays the inraged Archeus and then carries off the poysonous offending matter by Stool or some other gentle way It totally corrects and destroys the virulency of vegetable Poysons either out or in the Body and being taken as a Corrector shows it's effects For if you are assaulted with the violent working of any Potion vomative or purgative 't will so take it off as to settle Nature in her due Decorum such is the Nature Force and Operation of this Pill as a Corrector It 's Prevalency will be seen in helping Nature to discharge and expel those things that offend her for if you take a Pill drinking a Cup of mull'd Sack after it and sweat in Bed 't will immediately disperse it self thro' the Body fortifying the Fountain of Life and so expels Poyson in any part of the Body 'T is prevalent in most Diseases incident to the body as hath by long Experience been confirmed For by it's Abstersive Nature and Pacative Virtue it pacifies the inraged Archeus and by this means insinuates it self into the languishing Fountain of Life and per orms much to the Patients content and satisfaction especially in Colds Coughs Disenteria or Fluxes of any sort or Gripings in the Bowels Fevers or Agues as the Tertian Quartan and Quotidian Plurifies Calentures Headach the distilling of Humors called Catarrhus which destroyeth the Lungs also in pains of the Brest tremblings of the Heart giving the Blood a Fermentation and cleansing it from Superfluities and therefore prevalent in the Dropsie Anasarca Ascites Timpanites Inflammation of the Reins difficulty of Pissing It bringeth forth the small-Pox and Measles 'T is a very general Remedy curing many Diseases and not hurtful in any c. In pains of the Limbs Scurvy Gout and inveterate Gonorrhaea's and several other Diseases as may be seen by It's Dose and Application FOr any of the afore-named Diseases you must take the bigness of a grey Fea and drink it down with a Glass of mull'd Sack or hot Mace-Ale and being in Bed dispose your self to Sweat This method does very well in the King's-Evil Measles Small-Pox or Swine-Pox to bring the Venomn from the Heart For Agues take a Pill the bigness of a large grey Pea and drink it with 2 Ounces of Cinamon Water and as much Peper