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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50470	Rhachitidologia, or, A tract of the disease rhachitis, commonly called the rickets shewing the signes, cause, symptoms, and prognosticks : together with a most accurate and ingenious method of cure / written originally in Latin ... by ... Dr. John Mayow ... and now ... faithfully rendred into English by W.S. ; to which is subjoyn'd a profitable appendix, touching weights and measures us'd in the composition of medicines and exhibition of medicinal doses.	Mayow, John, 1641-1679.	1685 (1685)	Wing M1534; ESTC R43442	29,746	155

must be fitted to the Bodies of the Infants so as the Spine be held upright and the prominent Bones repressed Neither must we here omit the Artificial Suspension of the Body by the assistance of a certain pendulous Instrument made after such a manner with Swathing-bands that it crosseth the Breast coming under the Arm-pits and goeth about the Head and under the Chin and then receiveth the Hands with two Handles whereby the weight of the Body is sustained partly by the Child's hands partly by his head and partly by his Arm-pits Now at last let us set down some of those things which are outwardly to be applied A Fomentation of any sort of Wine as also of common Aqua vitae doth avail much to corroborate the Nervous parts apply the same to the debilitated Parts and especially to the Spine and then anoint those parts with proper Oyl or Unguent of which hereafter In lieu of Wine the following Decoctiō may be made use of as A Fomentation Take of the root of Osmond-royal and Male Fern each three ounces of the Flowers of Betony Sage Rosemary Marjoram Water-Cresses each one handful of the Flowers of Chamomil Melilot and Elder each a small handful Bay-berries Juniper-berries of each half an ounce Boyl them in a sufficient quantity of Spring-water to two pound put thereto of White-wine or common Aqua vitae one pound Keep the straining for use An Oyntment for the debilitated Parts Take of the Leaves of Elder Bay Marjoram Sage Rosemary Betony tops of Lavender each two handfuls Bay-berries Juniper-berries of ●ach one ounce Put these being cut and bruised into a convenient Vesiel with three pound of May-butter or fresh Butter unsalted and half a pint of Aqua vitae boylthem gent lyto the consumption of the Aqua vitae To the expression being yet hot add of Oyl of Nutmegs made by expression half an ounce of Peruvian Balsom one dram mix them make an Unguent Instead of May-butter Beef-marrow or Deer's-suet and Oyl of Earth-worms or Fox-oyl of each one pound and a half may be substituted Apply Unguents pretty warm before a clear fire and rub them on with a hot hand until they be dry that it may penetrate the more mix a little of some proper Liquor with the same in the time of using If the Abdomen be stretch'd out and tumid apply the following Oyntment A Liniment for the Swelling of the Abdomen Take of the Oyls of Capers Wormwood and Elder each one ounce of Vng è succ aperitivis or the Unguent above prescribed one ounce and a half of Gum-Ammoniac dissolv'd in Vinegar half an ounce Make a Liniment wherewith a little portion of the following Liquor may be mingled in the time of using it A Decoction to be used with the Liniment Take of the Root of White Briony one ounce of the Leaves of Worm-wood Centory Sage each one handful Flowers of Elder and Melilot of each a small handful of Bay-berries Juniper-berries each two drams Boyl them in three pounds of Spring-water to the wasting of half add thereto of Rhenish-wine half a pint Keep the straining for your use Whilst the Unguents are applied to the Hypochondria let the Nurse handle the Viscera or Bowels as is before directed Emplasters also can in this part bring help A Plaister for the Hypochondria Take of the compound Emplaster of Melilot as much as will suffice spread it on taw'd Leather and apply it to the Hypochondria If there be a Tumour near the Region of the Liver add to one Ounce of the aforesaid Emplaster of yellow Sanders powdered one dram of Oyl of Wormwood and Wax as much as sufficeth to make an Emplaster Another Take the Juice of Brooklime Water-cresses Elder and Worm-wood of each one Ounce Let the clarified Juices be reduced by a gentle heat to the consistence of an Extract to which add of Gum-Ammoniac dissolved in Vinegar and boyled to a thickness two ounces of Venice Turpentine one ounce of Yellow Sanders powder'd 2 drams of Oyl of Capers and Wax as much as is sufficient make a Plaister to be applied as before If the Lungs be affected Anoint the Breast with Vnguent Pectorale or Dialthaea or both mixt together wherewith at the time of inunction you must mix some oyl of Nutmegs made by Expression A Pectoral Vnguent Take of Green Liquorice four ounces of fresh unsalted Butter one pound Bruise them together in a stone Mortar and macerate them in a Bath four hours then strain them repeat this three times with an equal quantity of of fresh Liquorice Let the Oyntment clarified accerding to art be kept for use Where with in the time of using you may mix an equal quantity of Vng Pectorale with a little Oyl of Nutmegs made by expression Forasmuch as this Disease doth arise from the obstruction and debilitie of the Spinalis Medulla corroborating Fomentations and Unguents such as are now already prescribed may be thereto applied wherewith Balsome of Tolu may be mixt in a small quantity such are Emplastrum Nervinum de Betonicâ as also that which follows An Emplaster for the Spine Take of the first prescribed Oyntment two ounces Gum Ammoniac dissolv'd in Vinegar and Burgundy-Pitch of each half an ounce Mastich Frankincense and Caranna of each two drams of Castoreum half a dram of prepar'd Earth-Worms one dram and a half of Salt Armoniac two drams Wax enough to make an Emplaster spread a sufficient quantity of this upon taw'd-Leather whose Form may be varied for as the superiour or inferiour Parts are infirm the Plaister is to be applied to the upper or lower part of the Spine and sometimes according to the whole length of it And so much for the Method of Curing the RICKETS FINIS AN APPENDIX TOUCHING WEIGHTS AND MEASURES Us'd in the Composition of Medicines and in the Exhibition of Medicinal Doses BY W.S. Gradibus venit Incrementum OXFORD Printed by Leon. Lichfield Printer to the University for Tho. Fickus Bookseller 1684. An Appendix touching Medical Weights and Measures I. Of MEDICAL WEIGHTS THE Aestimation or Value of all things is deduc'd from Number Weight or Measure Now as for Number there is the same Reason and Accompt universally dispers'd throughout all the Regions of the World But as to Weight or Measure it is not so for there is a vast Variety every Government vindicating it's proper Weight and it 's proper Measure which beareth the Name or Title of it's peculiar Country And whereas above all things whatsoever is instituted for Medicinal use it ought to be confin'd to sure and common Rules certainly then Weights should be establish'd certain and common to all men that by a General Law and Custom there may be a General Consent and Agreement among all Nations it being a Matter of no small moment if we rightly consider the Scope we aim at in the use of them For upon these oftentimes depends the Life or Death of the Patient Therefore that a true Knowledge thereof may