Selected quad for the lemma: spirit_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	abate_v	salt_n	vitriol_n	33	3	10.9089	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A57242	The experienced farrier, or, Farring compleated In two books physical and chyrurgical. Bringing pleasure to the gentleman, and profit to the countrey-man. ... For here is contained every thing that belongs to a true horse-man, groom, farrier or horse-leach, viz. breeding; the manner how, the season when, ... and what are fit for generation; the feeder, rider, keeper, ambler and buyer; as also the making of several precious drinks, suppositories, balls, purgations, ... and directions how to use them for all inward and outward diseases. Also the paring and shooing of all manner of hoofes, ... The prices and vertues of most of the principal drugs, both simple and compound belonging to farring, ... also a large table of the virtues of most simples set down alphabetically, and many hundreds of simples placed one after another, for the cure of all ... diseases, ... with many new receipts of excellent use and value; never yet printed before in any author. By E.R. Gent.	E. R., Gent.	1681 (1681)	Wing R13A; ESTC R220639	427,228	473

well with a Syringe with the water abovesaid do this once or twice a day and it will do well Thing● good for Feavers in General which you are to use according to your Discretion To let Blood the distilled water of the Branches Leaves Flowers or Fruit of the Bramble is very good the Leaves or Roots of Burrage or Bugloss is very good for Pestilential Feavers to defend the Heart and to Mitigate heat in them the seeds or leaves of the blew-Bottle is likewise good for the same so is the Root of the Butter-bur the Juice of Cinque●oyl is good for all inflammations Feavers the distilled water of Dandelion the inner Juice of the Pomcitron or Lemmons are good Cochenele is good in Pestilential Fevers a Manchet steeped in Muscadine and given him or in Sallet Oyl Mashes of Malt and warm Water three or four Yolks of Eggs given him in eight spoonfuls of Aquavitae and stir him till his shaking Fit be over is good so is Muscadine and Sugar-candy brewed together Wormwood Pepper Grains powder of dried Rue boiled in Ale and sweetned with Treacle and Sugar-candy is good so is Ston●-crop bruised and infused in Ale and given him Germander Gumgragant and dried Roses put into a quart of Ale with Sallet Oyl and Honey given him luke-warm is good Alloes Garlick Licoras and Anniseeds mixed in white-Wine and given him Rue Long Pepper Bay-berries Smallage boiled in Beer Saffron and Treacle mingled together or a handful of Thyme boiled in Beer till it be tender then ●train it and put to it Sugar Candy Anniseeds and Treacle and give it him blood-warm but for a Hectick Feaver boyl Sage Yarrow Ribwort Plantine Bramble-leaves Honey-suckle-leaves of each a handful with common Honey a spoonful in two quarts of running Water till half be consumed then put to it a good Piece of Allom and two spoonfuls of Vineger and when it is dissolved drain the Water from the Herbs and keep it for your use and wash his Mouth therewith often for his Tongue will be raw Then give him this Drink take of Alloes an Ounce powdred Garlick half an Ounce of Anniseeds and Licoras an Ounce made into powder bruise your Garlick and put to it three Ounces of brown Sugar Candy and add to it a Pint of white-Wine and give it him Blood-warm and Ride him afterwards Give him this Drink every other day for three Mornings together Particular Receipts for them Take Oyl of Vitriol Oyl of Sulphur and the Spirit of Salt and put to it a quart of strong Beer ninety or one hundred drops of either of them and give it him every Morning till you find his Feaver abate These three Oyls or Spirits are much of a Nature for they all comfort and strengthen the Stomach very much and abate all Inflammations quenching Draught and abating the Heat of Feavers and create a good Stomach They purifie the whole Mass of Blood and resist all Poison Plague and Putrefaction and are so excellent Medicines that they are to be accounted truly Cordial and Comfortable to the whole Body powerful yet safe in Operation If you give them alone they are present death They are good also applied outwardly to takeaway hard Knobs or Warts and to kill Ulcers or Fistulaes in the Flesh The Dose given him is from Fifty to one hundred Drops When you take them mix them not together but use them singly by themselves Have a care you touch not your Linnen or Woollen with them for if you do they will soon eat them full of holes The salt Spirit I advise you rather to make use of of the three Another Receipt good for a Feaver Take of Diapente one Ounce Bay-berries and long Pepper of each half an Ounce of the flat shell of an Oyster burnt and beaten to powder half an Ounce of Diascordium half an Ounce put all these into a quart of strong Beer and give it him ●uke-warm when you find him want it and Order him with white-Wine and Honey to preserve his Stomach and a Cordial of brown Houshold-bread boiled in Beer and sweetned also with Honey as you have Directions more fully how to make and use them in Directions for sick Horses after the Table of Simples This Drink will cause him to sweat and sleep which will bring him to his Senses which is the proper effect of the Diascordium but if you find that this does not make him sleep then give him as much powder of Poppy-seeds as will lie upon a six pence in two Hornfuls of small Beer at each Nostril one or for want of that a spoonful of white Poppy water which cause him to sleep soundly Things good in General to be Given inwardly for the Cure of the Farcy Hounds tongue Knot-grass Horse-Mint and Spare-Mint Rag-wort feed of Bastard Rhubarb Savin Scabius Stone-crop Tamarisk Oyl of Vitriol ten or fifteen drops of it in his Drink is good for it stinking Gladwin Dodder Callamint Water-Hemp or Water-Agrimony Hearts-ease Hops black Hellebore or Beares foot Fumitory the dried Bark of the black Aller-tree the Root of Asarabica is not only good for it but likewise for all Cankers or Old putrid Ulcers and Fistulaes upon the Body the inner Rind of the Barberry-Tree the inner Rind of the Elder-Tree or Berries Burrage Briony a great Purger which must be Corrected Gentian Feltwort or Baldmony the Juice of Housleek or Stone-crop Liver-wort the seed of Male and Female Mercury Chick-weed Turmerick Bay-berries Fennegreek Nut-galls the inner Rind of the Wall-Nut Tree the Juice of Cinquefoyl put into his Eares or the Juice of Rue and Aqua-vitae or Assafetida and Brandy put into them the Juice of Ground-Ivy given inwardly the Juice of Cellandine the Juice of Sow-thistle Southernwood c. Things good in general to be applied Outwardly to Kill the Knots of the Farcy After you have Blooded him well take Oyl of Bay and Euforbium mixed together and anoint the Knots with it or to Bath the place with the Stale of a Cow or Ox and with the Herb called Lyons Foot boiled together or Tallow and Horse-dung melted together or to burn the Knots with a hot Iron or to wash the Sore with Salt Vineger Allom Verdegrease green Copperas and Gun-powder boiled together in Chamber-Lye or take a penny-worth of Tar two Handfuls of Pigeons dung white Mercury two penniworth and make it into Salve and anoint him with it Soot Bay-salt and black Sope is likewise good so is Rue Brimstone Arsmart Hemlock Nettles Housleek Brandy Oyl of Turpentine Aqua-vitae Pepper Ginger Misle-toe the powder of unslackt Lime used at your pleasure c. Observation upon this Disease If his Breath smell strong and stink his Lights are rotten and there is no Cure for him Particular Receipts both Inwardly given and Outwardly applied for the Cure of the Farcin Take nine Leaves of the Pot-Herb called Beetes of the smallest but soundest Leaves and nine grains of Bay-salt beat these very well together