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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42987	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.	N. H.	1658 (1658)	Wing H100A; ESTC R215851	7,379	24

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 fr●● 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 Proba●●●● 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 ●er● set down how it is made with the Remedies thereof Take of the best S●ll●● 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 ●●ir it with an Iron ball having a handle to it when this is well mingled together the Soap come●● upward then set it upon a fire of ●o●ls an hour and hal● 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 ●●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 b●● by the way It being laid to the stomack provokes appetite it taketh a way any grief●● or about the stomack It is a pr●●●●● melody for the Co●lick it being appiled to the belly And being laid to the re●ne● of the back it easeth the bloody-flux the running of the Rel●●s the h●●● 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 ●pice of almost half a year as I was truly informed by her husband so as that the pain with the