reason of plenitude and fulnesse of blood breathing a veine at the Arme is very necessary for her safety In all Fevers requiring Phlebotomy let it be done in the beginning when Nature is strong and the Distemper lesse prevalent After long and wasting sicknesse take heed of blood letting In Women and fatt bodies take blood sparingly in men and lean bodies and those who have large veines take more freely If the Masse of blood be wholly vitiated and naught be sparing in Blood letting but purifie it by gentle Purgation Sweating Medicamentall Aliment and proper dyet Before ten and after sixty years age let no Veine be opened but upon urgent occasion If the Disease be great and urgent requiring large Evacuation and Nature imbecile and weake take blood at twice or thrice itermitting 6 or 12 hours distance as the skilful Chirurgeon shall see cause When Phlebotomy and Purgation are both required and the Disâ—ase seated in the Veines and habite of the body first bleed then purge but if otherwise and chiâ—fly in the stomack bowells and parts adjacent first purge then bleed If there be suppression of a wonted Evacuation and Detrimentall or obstruction contrary to the Law of Nature open a Veine to exonerate and alleviate for the present Nature will be betteer able to relieve it self for the future In Symptomaticall translations of a turgid humour aestuations and ebullitions of the blood causing a general perturbation or erratic paines restlâ—ssenesse and unquiet watchings in the night Breathing a Veine Refrigerates Allayes and checks the effrenation of humours For Anniversary and imminent Diseases arising from Plenitude and Luxuriant blood opening a Veine anticipates and prevents them In vehement Distempers requiring Phlebotomy look not upon the quallity of the blood but make detraction according to the quantity having respect to the strength of the Patient After Phlebotomy use a spare and good Diet that you fill not your Veines with crudities and ill humours 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Isiodor 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Physitians ARMORY wherein you may view A Magazine of Rare Medicines Classically distributed and digested Specificly appropriated properly denominated moderately prized the full Doses in each Mâ—dicine numbred the duration of each Medicine in its full vertue justly limited Appropriation Denomination Doses Duration moneths Price   shil pence To the Braine Capital Pills 2 18 1 8 Epileptick Powder 3 24 1 6 Cephalic Electuary many 12 1 6 Catarrh Pills 4 18 1 4 Epileptic Amulet 1 12 2 0 Fuming Powder many 36 1 0 Eyes Opthalmic Water many 12 1 6 Heart Bezoardic Antidote 3 24 1 8 Cordial Tincture 3 24 1 6 Lungs Pectoral Electuary many 12 1 8 Asthmatic Pills many 18 1 6 Hectio Confection many 6 1 8 Stomack Digestive Electuary many 9 1 6 Stomack Pills 2 18 1 6 Great Elixir many 24 1 8 Emetic Tincture 1 12 1 0 Liver and Spleen Hydropic Powder 2 18 1 6 Splenetic Pills 2 18 1 6 Spleen Plaster 1 12 1 8 Scorbute Tincture many 24 1 8 Guts Discussive Powder 3 18 1 6 Retentive Electuary 2 9 1 6 Tincture for worms many 18 1 0 Pills for worms 3 12 1 6 Clyster Electuary 1 12 1 4 Reins and Bladder Nephritic pills 6 18 1 8 Roborating pills 5 18 1 6 Srengthning plaster 1 12 1 6 Genital parts Restringent powder many 24 1 8 Antivenereall pills 2 18 2 0 Expulsive powder 1 12 2 0 Hysterical powder 3 12 1 6 Feminine Pills 2 18 1 8 Womens preservative 4 12 2 0 Joynts Arthritic pills 2 18 2 0 Miscellaneous and Generall Medicines Catholic Pills 1 18 1 0 Aperitive Powder 3 24 1 6 Sudorific Pills 1 18 1 0 Haematic Powder 4 24 1 6 Purgative Electuary 1 9 1 0 Isâ—ue Plasters 4 24 1 0 Febrific Antidote 3 12 1 8 Camphire Powder many 24 1 6 Cosmetic water many 12 2 0 Generall Instructions for the Doses and Quantities necessary to be observed in the taking of any Medicine and the right Manner of keeping and preserving them from decay A Dose is the just and due quantity of a Medicine to be taken or used at once The full Dose is for men and women of strength but if they be weak and tender bodies or by experience have found that lesse will operate with them then other bodies require let such take the Doses for the age 14 prescribed I meane chiefly in vomiting or purging Medicines Observe the quantities prescribed for the several Ages and rather offend under then over the next Dose you may amend by taking a little more if the first be too weake there is no harm in that After the first Dose of any Medicine taken your own reason and ability of body will easily direct you in the next whether to keep to the same to augment or diminish for you must know the difference of bodies is such in operation that they require oftentimes a different quantity for their proportion to produce the like effect which cannot exactly be determined and appointed by the prescience of the most skilfull Physitian untill the first Experiment and tryall of their bodies Therefore slight not any Medicine if it answers not your expectation at the first but prove it farther and alter the quantity more or lesse as you find it requisite for your purpose and condition of body But let me Caution you this In Chronic Diseases that are slow of Motion and gives you sufficient time for Cure never desire strong Physick but imitate Nature which acts Gradually and gently does nothing Hastily and Violently Physick can doe nothing of it selfe but as an Auxiliary and help to Nature and if Nature does not Cooperate you must expect no benefit therefore if you go natures pace you will have Nature assisting with the meanes but if you be hasty and put all your hopes in the strength of your Physick and strive to doe as much in one day as is fit for three dayes work you precipitate Nature defame good Medicines and wrong your own body But when the Disease is vehement and accute threatning suddain death as Apoplexy Lethargie and the like then use sharp and quick Medicines because the time for cure is but short and will admit of no delay Vehementi malo forti omnino auxilio opus est What Medicines you would keep for a long time to serve for accidental occasions set them in dry places not near the ground or damp walls nor in the open ayre and they will remain in their vertue and goodnesse according to their several times prefixed in the preceding Table of Medicines The Vertues right Vse and Due Quantities of each Medicine particularly and distinctly Declared For the Head THe Capitall Pills purge and cleanse the Brain from all superfluous Humours that stupifie and dull the Rationall Faculty or obstruct and hinder the right Operation of the Sensitive they quicken the Memory open the Ventricles of the brain and free the Nerves from obstructions conducing much to the cure of all infirmities seated in the Head and Nerves as Convulsions Falling-sicknesse Apoplexy Palsies Vertigoes Rhumes Head-ach dull sight or hearing by taking away the Antecedent Cause that generates and produceth them Take them 3 or 4 dayes with intermission of a day or two observing the directions for purging in
a tender body and easy to operate The Womens Preservative is an excellent Powder very successeful and of great use to prevent miscarrying in Women with chiâ—de also very Cordiall and strengthning for weak women Take it once or twice in a week fasting in a glass of Muâ—kadell you may forbear taking the last moneth of your time The Dose is one papâ—r Buâ— beware of Dancing stretching leaping carrying of any weighty thing riding suddain motion fear or grief streight lacing surfeiting and ill dyet which break out into Fluxes and are very dâ—ngerous for woman in this condition For the Ioynts THe Arthritic Pâ—lls are a peculiar approved Remedy for the Gout in the Feet Knees Hip or Hands whether fixed in one joynt or erratick from place to place they Attract the Peccant humor from the Joynts and Evacuates it by seige they also purge ouâ— Phlegmatic Serous and Choleric humors and clenâ—e the body well The Dose is 4 pills for man or woman tender and weak bodies may take 3 observe the generall directions for purging in the 16 17 18 pages For prevention take them 2 or 3 dayes in the middle of March and at the beginning of September if blood abounds open a vein to abate it but if the pain hath seased you already and that violently open a vein to prevent a Feaver to retract the current of humors and to abate the fiercenesse of it if pain be in the right Leg open a vein in the right arm if in the left Leg open a vein in the left arm if pain be in the right arm open a vein in the left arm and so the contrary take blood according to age strengh plenitude greatness of the cause as the skilful Chirurgions sees fit In the inteâ—im make use of the Câ—mphire powder to asswage pain as it is directed in the 45 page After bleeding the day following take the pills and the next night after Miscellaneous and General Medicines THe Catholick Pil's purge Choler Flegme and Melancholy from all parts of the body carâ—iâ—s away all superfluous and putrid humors that seetle or fix in any part to breed diseases they prevent Feavers Agues Fluxes breakings out upon the skin Itch Impâ—stâ—umes takes away all filthy matter that engender wormes and keeps the body clâ—an and pure Take them 2 or 3 dayes Spring and Autume or at other temperate seasons if occasion require ob erving the dirâ—ctions for purging in the 16 17 18 pages of this book The full Dose is 4 pills for 14 years old or tender bodies 3 pills for 7 years 1 pill The Aperitive Powder very effectually opens all obstructions of the Liver Spleen Guts Pancâ—eas Mesentery and Matrâ—x and is very usefull and necessâ—ry in â—he cures of Hypoâ—hondriae Melancholy Scurvy Dropsies Cholic tumors or pâ—inâ—s in the Liver and Spleen the Grâ—en-sickness especially and all Disâ—ases arising from obstructions Take it fasting in Rhenish wormwood or plain White Wine 2 or 3 mornings together before purging and also thâ— inteâ—mitting dayes between purging and stir about or use exercise after it prepares and opens the body excellently whâ—reby your purging Physick will operate more effectually for your purpose and expedite your business The Dose is one paper for 14 years 3 parts of a Paper The Sudorific Pills procures sweat excellently and purifies the blood dries up rhumes and watry humors abounding diverts distillations from the Lungs and other parts are a great preservative against the running gout or fixed expels all putrid humors by transpiration drives out all colds newly taken or old helps old aches prevents cures agues feavers smal pox measels and all Diseases generated of putrefaction and is the most pleasant and easie Medicine you can desire for sweating You may take them two or three mornings fasting in bed covered warm a quarter of an hour after drink a good draught of Rosemary posset or Lemmon posset if you be Feaverish and sweat 2 hours then take off clothes by degrees and cool carefully and beware of cold afterwards the Pores of the body being open The full Dose is 4 pills for 14 year 3 pills for 9 years 2 pills The Haematic Powder restraines immoderate flowing of the termes and stayes all issues of blood whether by Stool Urine Vomiting or Spitting Take it in a draught of Veriuce posset cold morning and evening and if the party be young or Sanguine take away a little blood at the Arme by a discreet Chirurgion to divert the course it is safe and proper The full Dose is one Paper for 15 years old 3 parts of it The Purgative Electuary is a generall purge that clean seth all parts and takes away both Choler Flegme and Melancholy very useful for those which cannot take Pills or have a costive and dry body Take it in the morning early on a knifes point or mix it with posset drink and make a potion if you please observing directions for purging in the 16 17 18 pages of this Book The full Dose is the whole Medicine for 14 years old 3 parts of it for ten years half for 7 years a third part The Issue Plasters attracts and draws superfluous and corrupt humors from all parts of the body to the place causeth your issue to run and brings away filthy matter which produced and inclined you to many Diseases and distempers they keep your issue cool and prevent inflamation very commodious in Journeyes or Voyages one of them will last a moneth in wearing wipe it and turn the otherside to the place every dressing and lay a paper upon it The Febrifick Antidote resist all Agues or intermitting Feavers changeth the constitution and distemper of the blood checks the Fermentation and Ebullition of it mitigates and abates the Rigor of the Fits alters the course of the Disease and by degrees quite eradicates it Mix it with a little juce of Lemmon in a spoon and take it every fit day 2 hours before the fit comes and go to bed presently lye to sweat and sleep if it doth so dispose you Lemmon posset you may drink in your hot fit freely The full dose is a third part of the Medicine for 14 years a fourth part for 8 years old a dram Moreover because these Fitts are accommanied with impurity and foulenesse of the Body it is requisite there be some Evacuation made to cleanse the Stomack and parts adjacent else from thence there will be a continuall supply of Crude and Corrupt Nutriment sent into the Veines whereby the Masse of blood shall never be Depurated and so remaine under the same Distemper a long time or Degenerate into some other as bad or worse when these Fitts of Febrific Fermentation cease therefore if you have a fulnesse at the stomack nauseating or inclination to Vomit in your fits then forbeare this Antidote once and 2 houres before you expect the next Fitt take the Emetic Infusion to vomit observing the same Order as is directed in the 18 19 pages of this book for Vomiting Those dayes you have no Fitt to take a Clyster is very proper and beneficall to cleanse and carry away the Morbific Cause the Clyster Electuary is for your purpose see page 39. If you refuse Clysters take the Catholic Pil's page 43. The Camphire Powder cures all Tettars Ringwormes Scabs Itch Frettings and Gallings of the Skinne Choleric Pushes and Pimples in any part of the Body it asswageth all Pains of the Gout in the Hands Feet or Knees is a good preservative to defend the Joynts from the Reception of any such Humor by knitting binding and strenthening them it Repells a Flux of Humours resorting to an infirme depending or relax part it cooles and abates all outward inflamations represseth tumors and mitigates their pain it hardens tender and sweating seâ—t and makes them bold upon the stones kills chil-blaâ—es and easeth pains of the feet molâ—stâ—d with sharp pricking humors is very good for old Ulcers and sores by cooling drying and healing To be used thus Put the powder into a pint and half of Smiths water and boyle it to a pint and with this Liquor milk warm bath the places affâ—cted twice a day morning and â—ight But if you intend it for Pimples in the face then boyle it in White wine This Powder will be damp and moist sometimes it is the nature of it and not the worse The Cosmetick Water is of an abstersive faculty to clense purifie and thin the skin in a short time it alters a dull muddy complexion and makes it bright and clear it takes away Sun-burning Morphew spots and Freckles and puts a lively colour into the face without any future prejudice to the skin as Mercurian waters and such like are wont Use it thus shake the Bottle well then wet a fine cloth in it and wipe your face over not your eyes every morning and at night when you go to bed wipe your face with a cloth dipt in milk thus doing you shall have the desired effect FINIS LONDON Prinâ—â—d by 〈◊〉 and are to be sold by Samuel Thomson Stationer at the Bishops head in St. Pauls Church-yard Robert Horn Stationer at the Turks Head in Cornhill Thomas Basset Stationer under St. Dunstons Church in Fleet-street George Joyce at the sign of the Seale in Westminster Hall Where also you may have the Medicines
lesse drink In Summer lesse meate and more liquids In hot weather a cooling dyet in cold weather that which is warme and heating Temperate bodies are preserved by temperate things and their like distempered bodyes are rectified and reduced by their contraries and dissimilar a hot and dry body must have a cooling and moist dyet a colde and moist body a hot and dry dyet The variety of humors in mans body impugning one another with their contrary quallities are not easily kept in subjection but by a diligent watch and strict observance in your daily customes and practice for by a carelesse and irregular course the equallity of opposition is broken and some particular humor growes predominate which produceth distempers according to its nature power and heighth arrived at and the condition of the subject or parts it chiefly infests As the external colour of the body is various and divers such are the humors internal abounding The purity of the humors in mans body render the minde morâ— active light cheerful and airy The grosnesse feculency and impurity makes a heavy indisposeâ— and depraved minde clogging the soul as with fetters Who so priseth the integrity and perfections of the minde must havâ— an especiall care for the preservation of the body being bettered oâ— made worse by each others changes and affects for the Actions and Passions of the minde doe very much follow and arâ— subjâ—ctâ—d to the temperament nature and quallity of thâ— body Exceed not in any thing but keepe to a Mediocrity which is most Durable and agreeable to Natuâ—â— for its preservation Alter no custome suddainly but by degrees although from bad to better suddaine changes are Dangerous and Injurious to Nature which acts Gradually and by fit Mediums Think not your selfe secure in any ill Course or Custome contrary to the Rationall Lawes and Rule of Phisick because you are not immediately Chastised with the Consequents and ill Effects thereof concluding from thence all is Well but know though the Errors be but small in one single Act yet often repeated Accumulate and Swell into great Distempers which manifest themselves in that Season of the yeare most suitable to their ownâ— Inclinations and Disposition for such Productions The Heates and Coldes taken in Summer and the Luxuriant feeding on the Fruits of that season produce dangerous Diseases in Autume following The intemperate Erroneous practice of Winter discovers it selfe and Rebukes your Folly by a sickly Spring The change of the Ayre and Constitution of the Seasons makes Impression upon the Humors of the Body inclining to this or that Distemper as they are predisposed and vitiated by your own irregular Customes and Practice Contemne not small Changes and Alterations in the Body they are the Praeludiums or warnings of greater to follow but oppose them by a Rationall Practice and due Ordering of your self in Eating and Drinking Exercise and Rest Ayre Sleeping and Watching Venus and Possions of the minde refraining what may promote and aggravate your Morbific inclination and Accustoming to that which Suppresseth and Checks it being perswaded of this truth the beginning of most Diseases are better cured by Regular Dyet and due Order then Physick Magna pars sanitatis bene moratus venter Signes indicating Purgation A Thick or muddy Urine pale and thin red and ill savoured or often changing Lassitude and indisposition for motion or action Prickings or painâ—â— in the skin or flesh erratic or fixed The complexion altered dulnesâ— and unwonted heaviness restless watchings disturbed and troublesome sleepe sweatings in the night fulnesse or distention of the belly and hypochonders shortness of breath A looseness or flux of humors stimulating to expulsion gripings in the belly Heaviness pain or weakness without mâ—nifest cause about the loynes thighes or knees These signes declare the body wants purging Satius est morbo ingruenti occurrere quam invalescenti cum periculo mederi Advice and Cautions in Purging IF your body be Costive of a hot and dry constitution prepare it some dayes before purging with cool and moistning Brothes stewed Prunes Whey or the like Your physick will operate much better with less gripings and more effectual For a hot and dry body sucks in the Physick so strongly that it cannot work freely and kindly as otherwise it would doe If the weather be cold correct iâ— with a warm Chamber and good fire if very hot take your physick eâ—â—ly at 5. of the clock and keep little or no fire in so doing you may take physick at any time of the year safely and with successe if occasion require Draw the Curtaines before your Windowes and darken the Chamber untill your Physick have done working If your stomack be very weak and nauseating and not from repletion or if you be in a high and accute Feaver then use clysters In all violent paines and inflamations of what part soever in all contumacious obstructions of the Guts take no purging physick but by Clyster untill the body be open and thâ— spirits allayed Retain no purging Clyster above an houre but part with it Esteem not the goodnesse of your purge by the quantity and number of stools but by the quallity of them and the effects afterwards Covet not strong purges to have many stooles in a day a common Error which offers violence to nature and forcibly sweeping down both good bad together but rather endeavor to attract the offending cause gently by degreeâ— intermitting a day or two giving nature time for separation of humors you will finde it much more beneficiall nature more kindly assisting and lesse weakned On the intermitting dayes keep a good dyet with opening Broth and spoon-meat to keep your body fluid and ready for the next dayes operation beware of cold that you obstruct not your body and occlude the passages ductures before laid open which will cause your Physick to work with torsions and gripings and less effectual If the Morbific Cause lye in the stomack or bowels being in the passage ready and near the place of Evacuation you will not need so strong physick nor so often purging as when it is seated in parts more remote and at distance Delude not your self with one dayes purge expecting great matters from it you must know the first Dose stirres up more humors then it can evacuate and untill they be carried away you cannot expect your desired effect which will be after 3. or 4 dayes purging time little enough to cleanse a foul body but let it be with intermission of a day or two Take your purging Pills or Electuary early in bed lye an hour after that hour you may sleep but not longer when it begins to operate Sleep not nor lye down untill your Physick have done working except you be weake and your physick worke strongly then towards the latter end you may lye down to refresh you but not sleep except there be occasion to stay the working Drink a little thin Broth between your stools made with a bit of
Veale or Mutton a Crust of bread a Fennel and Parcely Root if you be opposite to Broth drink Posset drink of small Ale or Beer But if you have a hoâ— Costive body drink plain Whey it is better then either and your Physick will work more freely and easily Eat your Dinner 5 or 6 hours after your Physick taken abstaine no longer All Pills are most easily swallowed with a little Beer or posset drink in a spoon Signes for Vomiting FUlness or oppression at the Stomack nauseating loathing or vomiting Losse of appetite and digestion through soulenesse of the stomack Perturbation and trouble about the stomack and parts adjacent by Humours floating upwards having a tendency that way for Evacuation Bitter or Acide belchings into the mouth Heat and breakings out in the mouth and lips Opprime dum nova sunt subiti mala semina morbi Ovid. Advice and Cautions in Vomiting TAke your Vomit early in the morning your stomack will sooner nauseate and discharge it self and your Vomit work more freely and easily when humors are floating and active If you be strong take it fasting if weak or hard to vomit eat a Messe of VVater-gruell with Butter in it a little bâ—fore Be very loose about your Stomack and Belly that the Muscles may distend and contract without Compression and interruption of their motion Drink small Beer Posset-drink or warm water between your Vomits and the more you dâ—ink the easier will you vomit and sooner finish the operation Lye not down untill your Vomit have done working except you intend to check the Operation but if you be weake and not well able to endure up longer you may safely it will refresh you but sleep not When it hath done working take two or three spoonfulls of Claret Wine boiled with a little Mint and Cinnamon and lye to sleep Where there is Youth or fit Age strength of Nature Custome or Facility and aptnesse for Vomiting they may boldly and profitably use this way of evacuation and discharge Natures burthen and oppression in the Spring Summer or Autume when some of the foregoing signes doe prompt and indicate the sâ—me But if there be decay in Natuâ—e and great weaknesse debility of stomack by long sicknesse or old Age if with Childe or subject to fits of the Mother or Swooning If the Head be weake and infirme the Neck Long Slâ—nder and straight-brested the Lungs and Vitall parts weak or consumptive or difficult and hard to vomit or have a Rupture let such persons avoid vomiting as dangerous and hurtfull but rather chuse to draw the offending Cause downwards by Clyster Pills c. Advice and Cautions for Sweating with its Effects and Benefits CHoleric and dry bodies neither sweat easily nor well endure it For Phlegmatic serous and Sanguine constitutions sweating is more facile and beneficiall and nature more prompt In cold and moist Diseases sweating profits much as Palsies Rheumes Gouts Dropsie c. For Swarthy and muddy Complexions discolourations and spots upon the skin that arise from a foule Cachectic body after due purgation sweating depurates thinns and cleeres the skinne In cold Constitutions and where the blood is grosse thick and impure causing obstructions in the smaller vessels or slow of motion moderate breathing sweats clarifies the blood attenuates rarefies and helps circulation All inflations by winde or serous and watery humors that tumefie the skin sweating transpires evaporates and breathes out In all Malignant Contagious and Pestilentiall Feavers as Plague small Pox Measels spotted Feaver and the like sweating Cordials is your chiefest help In all Contusions and Bruises tumors and collection of Humors after Phlebotomy and convenient purgation by Glyster or otherwise to retract the confluence of humors resorting thither sweating and Diaphoritick Medicines resolves dissipates and scatters them and relieves the part affected Winde and flatulent vapours in any Concave part engirt and kept in by inveterate obstructions of the Ductures and passages sweating opens the Pores discusseth and by insensible transpiration sends them forth In all Defluxions and destillations to the Eyes Lungs Joynts or other parts sweating moderates and abates the Antecedent Cause diverts the course and current of the humor and is very profitable In degenerations of the blood Crudity Acidity Coagulation putrefaction c. gentle breathing sweats procures fermentation concoction rarefaction depuration and conduceth much to its restitution Bodies subject to sweating in the night either want purging or else feed too plentifully Take no sweating Medicine untill you have first purged unlesse the emergency and present necessity of the occasion does not permit such a delay as in Diseases of a Malignant contagious and venenate quallity First purge to cleanse and carry away the fiâ—th and grosser matter in the stomack and bowels the fittest for that way of evacuation that you drive it not into the habite of the body then sweat to purifie the blood and external parts In the Venereal Disease when the blood and spiâ—its is taintâ—d and vitiated with a peculiar virulency and Malignity to use proper and Specific Diaphoretics and sweating Medicines is the safest and best way for cure Praemissis praemittenda Indications Advice and Cautions for Bleeding with its Effâ—cts and Benefits IF your veines be full and distended breath a veine or be very temperate you are then subjâ—ct to many distempers from plenitudâ— If you feell a heaviness or oppression of Spirits a quick pulse and shortnesse of breath open a Veine for Ventilation and you will finde alleviation and refreshment In peracute and burning Feavers and all dangerous inflamations as Plurifies Quinsies Phrensies c. open a Veine speedily by day or night notwithstanding any contrary indication to forbid it In all violent and suddain pains contusions and hot tumors collecting open a Veine to prevent a Feaver and to retract the Current of humors resoâ—ting to the part affected In all Diseases from plenitude or conjunct with it threatning suffocation and suddain death as Lethargies Convulsion Epilipsie Suffocating Catarrhs Hysteriacll passions Palpitations of the Heart rising of the Lungs and such like Blood-letting is very necessary and beneficiall In all Evacuations of blood imoderate and hurtfull whether at the Nose by Stoole Urine Vomiting Spitting Haemorrhoides or monethly Purgations arising from Plenitude Heat Acrimony or attenuation of the blood open a veine for revulsion to turn the course and current take blood a little at once by a discreet Chirurgion it is proper safe and beneficiall In all Malignant and contagious Feavers whether Plague Small Pox Spotted Feaver or the like in the beginning and before there be any appearance outwardly upon the skin if the Feaver be intense and high open a veine to mitigate and abate vehement Symptomes but afterwards when Nature hath separated protruded and brought forth the Malignity to the skin opening a veine retracts and draws back again weakens and discourageth Nature and is very dangerous and mortal To prevent Abortion in Women with childe subject to miscarry by
the 16 17 18 pages The full Dose is 5 Pills for 14 years old 3 pills for seven years 2 pills The Epileptic Powder is a specific Remedy against Convulsions and Convulsive motions in Children In the fit observe by laying your hand if there be a rising or working at the childes stomack then put a Feather annointed with Oyle of sweet Olmonds into the throat and cause the Childe to vomit up that suffocating flegme and crude matter that oppresseth afterwards give a Dose of this Powder but if there be no heaving at the stomack apply a blistering plaster between the shoulders and give the powder you will see a good effect The Dose for 7 years old is one paper for 3 years half a paper for a year old ten grains for half a year 6 grains to be given in small Cinnamon water or Sack if the Childe be two years old if under in black Châ—rry water or Paeâ—ny For prevention give it 2 or 3 mornings together at the first quarter of the Moon and Full. The Cephalic Electuary is a peculiar Medicine composed against infirmities of the Head it Roborates the Braine and Nerves exceedingly Concocts and Exsiccates abounding moisture that produceth dâ—fluxions of Rheum's Scrophulous tumours and swellings of the Uvula or Almonds of the Ears confirms and restores the memory acuates and sharpens the sight and hearing very proper and benâ—ficiall for all persons that are Epileptic Cataleptic Apoplectic Paralytic subject to Convulsions trembling of the Nerves that hath a weak brain and infirm head Take the quantity of a Nutmeg or more fasting upon a Knifes point or in Rosemary posset which is better You may eat an hour after and follow your businesse The Catarrh Pills stops thin Rhumes that distill from the Head into the Breast procures quiet sleep incrassates the the Rhume and prevents coughing in the night being intended onely for such as are molested with coughing in the night but in the day use Pectoral Medicines hereafter mentioned for the Lungs Take them when you first lye down in bed two or three nights together or every other night they purge not The full Dose is two pills no more for ten years old one pill The Epileptic Amulet is a good preservative against the Falling sicknesse Apoplexy convlsions Catalepsy fits of the Mother Incubus or Night Mare and Vertigoes Whose virtuall scent comforts the brain dissipates and expells all Noxious Vapours and Fumes that arise up to the head and afflict the braine and Nerves with those Symptomes prevents retards or abates them in their return To be worn about the neck constantly next to the skin by all persons so diseased young and old The Fuming Powder is very proper and fit for all those that have a cold moist or weake brain it exsiccates and dryes up Rhumes and all superfluous moisture that causeth Distillations upon the Lungs sore eyes tooth-ach and such like and also strengthens the head and Nerves much Use it morning and night thus strew a little upon hot Coals in a Chaffing-dish and hold your head clothes or cap over the swoake so put them on warm For the Eyes THe Opthalmick Water is excellent for sore Eyes it restraines a Flux of Humours that resorts thither cooles any inflamation there mitigates any sharp Humour that causeth itching heat or readness clears the sight and strenthens it Use it thus Dip a fine cloth or feather in the water and wash your eyes night and morning in bed In the interim refuse no good means to take away the Antecedent cause as blood-letting and purging where it is requisite For the Heart THe Bezoardic Antidote is a most Soveraigne Cordiall against the Plague it powerfully expells poysons removes oppressions at the heart and any surfeit or overcharging of the stomack drives out all Putrid matter and Malignity whether received by infectious and unwholsome Ayres or otherwise generated in the body very effectuall in the small Pox Mesels spotted Feaver to bring forth their Malignity to the skin and to prevent returning inwards of excellent use in all suddain sicknesses in young or old to dâ—fend the heart and vitals untill the distemper manifest it self Take it on a knifes point or in posset-drink or any Cordial water and sweat as oft as occasion requires The full Dose is the third part of the Medicine for 14 years a fourth part for 7 years old a Dram for 4 years half a dram for 2 years 20 grains This great Composition is made as followeth Antidotus Bezoard Rec. 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Elictuar uÌ„ S. artem The Cardiall Tincture is excellent for fainting fits it chears the heart restores the Vitall Spirits and quickens decayed nature in feeble and weak persons comforts and warmes a cold stomack helps digestion expells winde and melancholy vapours that afflâ—ct the heart very good in Palpitations of the heart or oppression at stomack through Crudities and Indigestion To be taken at any time night or day when any the aforesaid distempers require it The full Dose is a spoonfull and half for 14 years one spoonfull for 7 years old half a spoonfull and so proportionably to younger For the Lungs THe Pectorall Electuary stayes defluxions of sharp rheumes that fall upon the Lungs mittigates their acidity and saltness which endangers Corosion easeth your Cough strenthens and defends the Lungs prevents a Consumption and is singular for these purposes worth your knowledge and use To be taken at any time the quantity of a Nutmeg or more when your Cough requires it but chiefly at night and morning in bed The Asthmatic Pills is a great preservative to weake and decayed Lungs opens Obructions and stoppings in the Breast helps difficulty of breathing old Coughs and shortnesse of breath concocts tough Flegme and brings it up easily or prepares it to be purged downwards Take them in the morning fasting and at 4 of clock afternoon 2 or 3 pills at a time they purge not These Pills are very beneficial for cold moist and