Selected quad for the lemma: heart_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heart_n	body_n	spirit_n	vital_a	3,629	5	10.6721	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A59949	The charitable pestmaster, or, The cure of the plague conteining a few short and necessary instructions how to preserve the body from infection of the plagve as also to cure those that are infected : together with a little treatise concerning the cure of the small pox : published for the benefit of the poore of this city and not unmeet for the rich / by Thomas Shervvood ...	Sherwood, Thomas, Practitioner in physick.	1641 (1641)	Wing S3416; ESTC R6113	9,551	23

then shortly after the Pox will begin to shew themselves But they will not bee many although every one of them will be far greater then the small Pox do use to be yet none of them will pit except they be much tampered withal or picked with the nails But if so be that those which have white heads do burn and rage extreamly you may prick their heads with a Needle and let out the corruption there is nothing else to be done with those upon whom they are come out and the Fever abated but that they keepe themselves warm sit still and be quiet But if that the sick hath not gone to stool in a long time before you give him this Cordiall to sweat you shall cause him to goe to stoole by a clyster or else which is better by a Suppositor made with Honey and Salt or a Violet Comfit And if the sicke bee yong strong and full of bloud you shall without danger doe very well if you draw from him eight or ten ounces of bloud before you lay him to sweat for then the Cordiall will have more power room and liberty to play upon the disease and will the sooner and better drive out the Pox If the quintessentia vitae be given in the waters of Roses Burrage or Buglosse it will drive out the small Pox without sweating and cure the sick immediatly But if the small Pox be come forth and that the Fever continue in his full vigour still so that the sick doth not amend but grow worse and worse then you shall not give them any hot Medicines inwardly nor any thing that doth provoke sweat for now hot cordiall Medicines will encrease the Fever and in the beginning they would have quenched the Fever and turn all the humours of the body into the matter of the small Pox so that there is nothing but a miserable death likely to follow oftentimes accompanied with the Pestilence This evill is much practised by those women that pretēd they wil drive the smal Pox further out when they are come out already Wherefore they do but beget the Fever again and where there are but ten they will make a thousand Therefore be carefull in this case what you do and give to the sick every hower nothing else but two or three spoonefulls of Rose water sweetened with a little sugar This will coole the body quench the Fever cause rest and then a stoole and thereby the sick shall recover presently By these meanes I have cured many very suddenly that have been dangerously sick in all mens sight even to Death as many in the City can beare mee witnesse As I have warned you not to give many hot things when the small Pox are come forth so I would have you beware of giving those that are very cold as the waters of Plantane Letice Purslane Poppy and the like which as I have Knowne have relieved many for the present and wrought an admirable cure in the sight of the common people but by their cold qualities they have so congealed and setled the humours in the body that the sick will never be healthfull all the daies of their lives as I could instance in many THose that desire further information concerning any particulars not expressed at larg in this brief Treatise they shall be fully satisfied if they repaire to the Author living in Hony-suckle Court in Grubstreet where he hath by Chimicall Art prepared six Catholicall Medicines with which hee cureth the Pestilence small Pox and most curable diseases whatsoever 1 Vomitivum Benedictum This Medicine being taken from five graines to eight in some convenient distilled water or wine or else with some Conserve or Pill doth safely purge upwards and downwards so that it may be given to a Childe of three or foure yeeres of age it cureth all diseases that arise from the foulnesse of the stomack and is good in the beginning of the Pestilence small Pox or any Fever or Ague 2 Catharticum Catholicum The dose of it is from ten grains to twenty it purgeth gently by stoole and clenseth the lower belly from all offensive humours cureth the French Pox Scurvy Jaundis and Dropsie also it freeth children from Worms 3 Diureticum Aperitivum This openeth all obstructions of the body but chiefly of the Liver Spleen Reines and Bladder it cureth the Jaundis and the Rickets in children also it helpeth those that cannot make water 4 Diaphoreticum Cordiale This being given in a small dose doth gently provoke sweat expelleth all venomous humours from the heart outwardly and driveth out the small Pox thrusteth out the tumours in the Pestilence and some it cureth without bringing forth a Rising 5 Quinta Essentia vitae This reviveth the vitall spirits and hath an admirable vertue in fortifying the heart against all infectious venemous vapours so that it is good for those that have occasiō to visit sick people If ten or twelve drops thereof be taken in a mornings draught it preserveth the body from infection and if twenty or thirty drops of it bee given to the sicke of the Pestilence within the space of sixe houres after they are infected they shall be cured in one hour as I have often proved it driveth out the small Pox and cureth the sick without sweating 6 Iulapium Restaurativum By the vertue this Medicine hath in resisting the putrifaction of humours it doth cure all sorts of Fevers and Agues it may be given in any time of the disease but especially in the latter end of the sicknesse when no other Medicine can be administred without danger With it I have cured the Hectick Fever and those that have faln into the Relapse of the small Pox and such as have been nigh unto death by reason of violent Fevers Any of the aforesaid Medicines the Author administreth both outwardly and inwardly in many severall wayes and manners according to the age temperature complexion and disposition of the bodie and according to the nature degrees and time of the disease Artis Apollineae vis sola est numen Olympi Quo sine languenti Pharmaca frustra dabis If that our art from God receive not strength In vain we seek mans life for to prolength FINIS