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spirit_n	blood_n	body_n	heart_n	5,603	5	5.0093	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60576	By publick authority. Doctor Salmon's pills, drops & balsam these so famously known throughout all England, fitted for the cure of most diseases in men, women & children.; Doctor Salmon's pills, drops & balsam.	Salmon, William, 1644-1713.	1680 (1680)	Wing S423A; ESTC R219867	3,718	4

By Publick Authority DOctor SALMON's Pills Drops Balsam those so famously known throughout all England fitted for the cure of most diseases in Men Women children 1. FAMILY PILLS which cure the Headach Megrim giddiness or swimming Apoplexy Lethargy Melancholy Frensy Madness Dimness of sight thickness of Hearing pain and noise in the Ears Distillation sore Throats shortness of Breath stinking-Breath Green-sickness want of Appetite Vomiting Pains and stoppages of the Head stomach Liver or spleen pains in the sides Plurisie Wind Gravel stone Worms in Children Pain stoppage and heat of Vrine pissing Blood Convulsions Falling-sickness Palsie Lameness Numbness SCURVY DROPSY GOUT Sciatica Jaundice Kings-evil Rickets running of the Reins Barrenness in Women though of twenty years continuance stoppages of their courses and other Disease belonging to the Sex They purifie cleanse and sweeten the Blood rectifie all Distempers of the Head quicken the senses clear the sight add a good colour to the face and make the Body able to withstand Diseases 2. CORDIAL DROPS which comfort the Heart revive the Spirits strengthen the Body and after a strange and wonderfull manner cure Comsumptions in old or young and give present ease in the GOUT or any other Pains though never so great and in short time after perfectly cure them They cure Feavors and Agues of all sorts the Cholick are eminently good against griping of the Guis strengthen a weak Back take away fits of the Mother prevent Miscarriage and help the Tooth ach in a moment They are good against coughs colds Destuctions of Rhume Vomiting pains of the stomach Liver and Spleen They stop any Loosness Lask Flux or Bloody-siux in a day or two at most they suddenly and strangly ease pains proceeding of Wind Cold Surfets or any other cause they are also very excellent against Mlancholy and pains of the Spleen 3. A BALSAM which cures Pains sprains swellings Bruises Burns scalds scabs Wounds Sores old Ulcers Fistula's and the like It is very good against Tetters Ringworms Morphew Scurffs Biting of Mad-Dogs redness of the Face Freckles sunburning seabs Itch pimples or any other deformity or breaking out whatsoever It strengthens weak Limbs helps shrinking of the sinews and cures any wound in the Head or other parts It is very good to anoint with in Palsies Gouts Sciatica and Numbness it is very good against the Cramps or any external pain It ripens swelling cleanses Wounds Ulcers and Apostumes breeds Flesh and skins any sore not suffering Corruption putrifaction or dead flesh in any Ulcer Fistula Kings Evil or the like The Price of a Box of the Pills is 6 d. of the Drops 6 d. and of the Balsam 6 d. 4. The way of using them The PILLS may either be swallowed down alone or in the pap of an Apple or Honey or a stewed Prune or dissolved in a little Beer Ale or Mace-Ale Wine or Broth as they like best and so taken at night going to bed without observation of any other order You may give from half a year old to three years half a Pill or a Pill from three years of Age to ten one or two Pills from ten years of age to fifteen give two or three from 15 to threescore and upwards you may safely give four or five The DROPS give in Sack or Ale or Mace-A●e sweetned five or ten drops to young Children from three years old to fifteen give twenty or thirty Drops from fifteen to threescore and upward give from a quarter of a spoonful to half a spoonful or more let them be given at night going to bed but in Agues two or three hours before the fit a whole spoonfull In using the BALSAM anoint therewith morning and night and apply it also Plaister-wise to the part afflicted 5. These Family-Pills are of excellent use for all travellers Seamen and such persons who live on bad diet in ill airs moyst places and near the sea coast and of such as are given to excessive drinkings and who cannot attend upon a cure but are forced to go about their business they may take them to sea with them because they keep their vertues many years nor does the water spoyl them the which will be found to stand them in great stead in all sea-sicknesses sickly seasons Calentures Feavers Fluxes Poysons Agues Scurvys Poxes c. which commonly afflict such as go to Sea 6. They give present ease relief and comfort working gently by Urine and stool they strengthen the body and agree with all constitutions thereby curing most cureable diseases taking away all pains lameness and inward stoppages They are an excellent head-purge for all diseases in the head as head-ach megrims giddiness and Rheumy Eyes beyond any medicin ever yet known and for all such as have spoyled their bodies by heats and colds or hard-drinking in their young days more can scarsely be done by any medicine 7. They cure the Scurvy when it is grown so bad as to become scandalous so as that many people think it to be the POX for the Scurvy often causes great pains in the head and nose shoulders and shin bones with other pains all over the whole body dulness and heaviness and redish or blewish spots and breakings out in the skin weaknesse in the back and loyns a bad stomach and sometimes losse of appetite loosnesse and sorenesse of the teeth throat and mouth a discoloured skin with spots stains pimples morphew and scurf and a general weakness and faintnesse all over the whole body insomuch at last that it gets into the bones and infects the very marrow of them this cruel disease these family pills cure at a few times taking 8. They purge by stool flegm choler and melancholy they dispose old Ulcers Fistula's running sores sore-Breasts sore-eyes scald heads Kings-evil sores tetters ringworms salt humours scabs or any other breakings out to a speedy healing by purging away the evil humors which feeds them 9. They are an excellent help for all risings Vapors cloggings stuffings gnawing or illnesse at the stomach for such as grow too fat pursie sweat or spit much have costive or hot bodies and for all such as have lost their complexions by the Scurvy Jaundice or green-sickness such as are overtaken with lingring diseases growing worse and worse every year than other with melancholy stoppages in the head and brest shortness of breath and ill digestion till such time as they fall into dropsies the Jaundice Hectick feavers or deep Consumptions lingring and wasting away with dry coughs wheesings faint sweats and the like these my Family-Pills carry off all those diseases the right way by taking them once twice thrice or four times a month 10. They are the only Pills now used in the Cure of all the aforesaid diseases not only in England but in many forrein countries and Kingdoms being cryed up and prized above all other medicins whatsoever insomuch that in some hundreds of families on most occasions they are their only Physick and from hence they