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The natures, uses, & doses of several approved and experienced medicines, faithfully prepared by John Spire, junr. medicinæ professor. To which is added, a catalogue of various chymical preparations, by him always ready prepared
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Spire, John, apothecary.
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Wing S4988; ESTC R219129
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Paper for those of six or seven a whole Dose so go on according to discretion it may be taken in the pulp of an Apple Sugar or Syrup of Clove-gilly-flowers or warm Ale Price one Shilling the Paper which contains 4 whole Doses XVII Vngt Anti podigra Or Our Famous Oyntment against that Rebellious Disease the Gout IN the most violent pains of the Gout let the part be well bathed before the Fire Night and Morning with a warm Hand for a quarter of an hour applying soft Brown-paper to the part then Flannel-cloaths 2 or 3 times double and Bind it up and after it hath been used 3 or 4 Days usually arises some small Blisters or Pushes from whence the morbifick matter will be somewhat discharged Then cease from using this Ovntment and proceed thus first take every third day a dose of our Panacea as it s directed in its place till about 7 or 8 doses be taken then take Nights of our Balsamick Pill as is prescribed for 2 or 3 Nights till the pains are abated and in the day time take every hour after of our Aq. vitae Magistralis observing about once in 4 days after you begin to take the Pill to take a dose of our Sal. Lenitium and doubt not by continuing the use of the Oyntment with the other Prescriptions thou may be relieved from the dolors thereof with Success Price Five Shillings the Pot. XVIII Vngt Rachitidem Or Our Oyntment against the Rickets WHich is excellent for bathing down the Back-bone and all the Joynts giving them daily of our Hysterick Drops in old Malago and sometimes of our great Cordial Drops as directed Observe This Oyntment is of excellent use for curing any Cut Rench or Strain and for old settled Pains in the Joynts provided it be well chaffed in by the Fire For Cuts or any Green-wounds melt a little of the same and dip a pledget of Lint and apply it warm once in 24 hours and it will heal the same Price one Shilling the Pot. XIX Vngt Viridi Or A soveraign Green-oyntment for Burns and Scalds c. THis Oyntment being melted and the Burn or Seald anoynted with a Feather Morning and Night infallibly cures the same observing after the anoynting to apply a piece of soft White-paper and cut the Blisters and if the Burn or Scald be filthy or dirty let it be washed with warm Milk For an Erisipleas or St. Anthony's-Fire with all other hot Inflammations let it be used evey six hours and doubt not the Success Price one Shilling the Pot. XX. Vnguentum aqua occularis Or our wonderful Oyntment and Water for the Diseases of the Eyes BEing a Remedy inferior to none that is extant of this kind but is a singular Medicine for Dimness of the Sight Pin and Web Pearls c. it eases Pains and cureth Diseases of the Eyes to a miracle it takes away Suffusions Clouds Blood-shot it cures running Eyes salt hot and sharp Rheums c. I need say no more it having cured those that have been almost Blind which we have often Experienced and particularly in our own Family it ought to be esteemed as a Jewel The Vse thereof as followeth FIrst Let the Eyes be daily washed 3 or 4 times in a Day letting some of it drop into the Eyes and after they have been well washed especially at Bed-time take the quantity of a Pepper-corn of the Oyntment and put it in at the corner of the Eye and lye down and it will disperse it self and it causeth no Pain but effects the cure in a little time if the Party be afflicted with violent Pains in the Head we would have them to take a Dose or two of our Balsamick Pill and to Purge twice a Week with our Sal. Lenitivum The Price of the Bottle of Water and Box of Oyntment is two Shillings Necessary Directions for the sake of those that are Poor to make the Pearl Cordial and the cooling Purple Julep c. which any Apothecary's-Shop can furnish you with And may be properly taken either of them or both with the Medicines herein Prescribed at the Pleasure and Discretion of the Patient XXI Julapium Perlatum Or our Pearl Cordial TAke the Waters of Borage Bawm Black cherries of each three ounces Compound Peony-water and Therical-water of each one ounce double resmed Sugar one ounce Pearls prepared one Dram and a half being mingled in a Glass-viol and shaken together you may take four or five Spoonfuls at a time in any Fainting it being a good Cordial and revives the Spirits XXII Julapium Purpureum The Purple Julep TAke Syrup of Violets four ounces Oyl of Sulphur per Campane thirty Drops Barley-water or Plantain-water two Pound mixed together is very good to quench thirst in Burning-fevers and may be taken three or four Spoonfuls at a time as often as the Patient shall require A Catalogue of the Names and Prises of the Medicines contained in this Tract which is Published for the sake of those who are not of Ability to give great Fees to a Physitian I therefore refer them to the use of these Medicines which are able by the blessing of God to extirpate the most stubborn Diseases incident to humane Bodies provided they are taken in due Method as they are directed in their proper Places the charge of which not amounting to much more than some Physitian 's Fees if thou take them all together which may be had or any one of them or more as People may have occasion at the Prises mentioned AQua-vitae Magistralis or our Magesterial Water the Bottle being above a Pint. 3 s. The Balsamick Pill the Box 1 s. Panacea the Paper 2 s. 6 d. Elixer Mag. Cordialis the Bottle 4 s. Pul. Antifeb the Paper 2 s. 6 d. Aqua Ruba Minaralis the Bottle 1 s. 6 d. Potestates Succini or Powers of Amber the ounce 1 s. 6 d. Tinctura Hysterica or the drops against Fits the ounce 3 s Gutta Lythontripticae or our Stone-breaking Drops by the ounce 10 s. Vinum Vitae or Anodine drops the Bottle 1 s. Esentia Stomachia or Stomach Essence the Bottle 2 s. 6 d. Pul. Antivermis or the Wormpouder the Paper 1 s. Ungt. Antipodigra or the Gout Oyntment the Pot 5 s. Sal. Lenitivum the ounce 1 s. Arcanum Chalybeatum or our Steel Drops the Bottle 2 s. 6 d. Ungt. Rachitidem 1 s. Pot. Ungt. Viridi for Burns and Scalds and other Inflammations the Pot 1 s. Aqua ungt Occularis the Box and Bottle 2 s. Spiritus Mundus per ounce 1 s. 6 d. Spir. Mundus mixt per qut 6 s. Spir. Sedativus per ounce 3 s. Aqua Ruba 1 s. A Catalogue of various Preparations 1. ARgentum Cristalum 2. Arcanum Helibori 3. Aqua Antiscorbutica 4. Aqua Regina Hung. 5. Arcanum Goderani or Dr. Goderd's Drops 6. Antimonum Diaphyret 7 Speties Generalis Ant. 8. Pul. Solaris Ant. 9. Speties Russeli Ant. 10. Tinct Antimony Emet 11. Tinct Antimoni Antisco 12. Bals Samech 13. Bals Sulpher nost 14. Elix Sulpher 15. Spir. Sulpher 16. Elix Propritatis com 17. Elix Propritatis Medium Helmonti 18. Elix Prop. cum cor cer 19. Elix Propritatis volatile 20. Elix Propritatis nostri 21. Elixer Salutis 22. Ence veneris 23. Spiritus Odontugiasus or an excellent Spt. for Teeth 24. Tinct Antifebritica 25. Tinct Cordialis Amar. 26. Tinct Corali Rub. 27. Tinct Cordialis Regale 28. Tinct Benzonium 29. Spirit Lavendulae 30. Castori 31. Sambucini 32. Cochlearae Simplex purgans 33. Absinthi 34. Vini com 35. Vini Tartarised 36. Salis com 37. Salis Dulci 38. Nitri 39. Nitri Dulci 40. Vitriole Dulci et Volatile 41. Crani Humani 42. Cor. Cervi 43. Salis Armonici 44. Oleum Salis Tartari 45. Salis nitri Fixi 46. Oleum Juniperi 47. Oleum Succini 48. Laudanum Volatile 49. Laudanum Liquid 50. Laud. Starky vel Pill Mathei 51. Laudanum nostri 52. Sal volatile Oleosum Cephalicum 53. Sal Volat. Oleosum Stomachum 54. Stypticum pro. Gonorrha 55. Stypticum Pulvis pro. vol. Neribus 56. Gutt Stypticum pro. vol. Neribus 57. Sal. Cathartici Amari 58. Sal. Lenitivum nost 59. Sal. Mirabilis 60. Sal. Solutivum 61. Sal. Glauberi 62. Sal. Tartari 63. Sal. Armonci Volat. 64. Sal. Cor. Cer. Cum Multis Alijs Published from my House at the two Blew twisted Posts at Horsley-down Fair-street in Southwark by John Spire
and absterge all Preternatural Coagulations for which reason I call it Sal. Lenitivum it is endowed with these 4 general properties viz. Cathartick Dieuretick Deobstruent and allaying of all Preternatural heat and Acrimony besides it is a general easer of pain and extinguisher of Venom as is manifest by what it effects in alleviating the Pains of the Gout Rheumatism Collick griping of the Guts 1st It Purgeth the gross Excrements and most viscous humours of the first passages without nauseating the Stomach or the least Griping Pains 2ly It is singular in opening Obstructions of the Vessels and Viscera It is of great use in Fevers especially those that proceed from Surfeits occasioned by Eating or Drinking It also dissolves all Stagnant and Obstructing matter in the Viscera This Medicine doth not only dissolve and expurge the Excrements of the Stomach and Guts but it also corrects the violence of all Preternatural Purges if you put but two drams of it in their Infusion or drink the same quantity in a draught of warm Ale or Posset-drink after any Potion that will Gripe or Operate Churlishly c. This admirable Salt never leaves the Belly bound as the common Purges do but always Soluble therefore excellent against a Costive temper of Body The 2d intention of this Salt is to alter and open Obstructions in the Liver Spleen Mesentery Pancras Reins Bladder and Womb from which proceed many tedious and stubborn Diseases as the Scurvy Dropsie Jaundice Hypocondriack Melancholly Vapours Green-sickness Rheumatism inveterate Head-Ach Restlesness Sleepiness Vertigo Frenzy Cramps Convulsions internal Inflammations and Aposthumes Piles Exulcerations of the Kidnies and Bladder Gravel stoppage of Vrine c. Together with many others arising from Obstructions and Acrimony of the Blood and Vital Juices This excellent Salt may be taken at all times of the Year and in all places without loss of time or hindrance of business and although it be of great Use and Service in very many Diseases yet I have by experience observed that in some it is Specifically Potent as in the Scurvy Jaundice Dropsie Suffocations Green-sickness stoppage of the Menses Piles Cholick Diarrhaea Bloody-flux Worms Inflammations and Rheums of the Eyes Itch and other Cholerick Eruptions of the Skin heat of Vrine in all which cases it hath signaliz'd it self It 's Vse and Dose FOr any of the aforenamed Diseases to a Man or Woman is from half an Ounce to three quarters of an Ounce a Child of a Year Old one Dram to two Drams and so on according to Discretion of the Parent and Age of the Child always to be dissolved in Spring water plain Posset-drink or thin Water-gruel and in Summer-time in Whey which the Patient fancies best to take it in In the Scurvy it ought to be taken daily or every other day for a Month or six Weeks together taking in all their Drink a pure Spirit of Salt to the quantity of 40 drops in a Day which may be had at my House for 12 d. the Bottle For the Jaundice I give it in Summer in Water or Whey in Winter in warm Gruel or Posset drink 5 or 6 drams while the Jaundice cease observing to take it every other Day in the Dropsie in the same manner as the Jaundice only in a less quantity of the Vehicle continue it for a Months time In the Green-sickness in Maids it is necessary to dissolve an Ounce of the Salt in a Quart of pure Spring-water and to take half a pint every Night and the same quantity early the next Morning continue taking if need be a Month or 5 Weeks In the Piles a quarter of an Ounce of the Salt dissolved in Water or Whey and taken for some time In the Cholick or griping of the Guts take one Quart of Spring-water and boyl therein two Drams of each of the Seeds of Annis Fennil Caraway and Coriander then dissolve therein an Ounce of the Salt and let the Patient drink frequently thereof a small draught that the whole Quant may be drank in a Day if the Party Vomit continue the Dose while the Vomiting ceaseth In a Diarrhaea or common Loosness boyl Wheat-bran in Spring-water and take half an Ounce in the Decoction thereof daily or every other Day according to Strength In a Diassenteria or Bloody-flux give it in a Decoction of red Rose-leaves boyled in Water giving a Clyster daily made with the Broth of a Sheeps-head continue the use till the Party find Relief For Rheums of the Eyes take it daily in the ordinary manner In the Itch Botches Boyls and other Cholerick Eruptions of the Skin give half an Ounce or 5 Drams dissolved in Fumatory-water or Whey for a Fortnight or three Weeks together taking sometimes in their Beer a Spirit of Salt till the Cure be perfected The Price of this Noble SALT is one Shilling the Ounce XIII Vinum Vitae Or Our Anodine Drops BEing a soveraign Medicine against a Diassenteria or Bloody-flux Cholick Gripes Vomiting and Loosness in Young or Old and to procure quiet Rest The Vse and Dose FOr a Man or Woman take always at Bed-time half a spoonful in a draught of Mace-ale or Mul'd wine For Children in the Month from 4 drops to 20 in Brest-milk or Ale as they increase in Age so may the Dose be increased at the Discretion of the Nurse or Parent Price one Shilling the Bottle XIV Essentia Stomachia Or our Stomach Essence IS a great strengthner of the Stomach and expells Wind good against the Cholick Gripes Pains at the Stomach Stitches and Pains in the Side It helps indigestions and cures Surfeits and attracts cold watery Rheums from the Stomach The Dose is from 4 drops to 25 in a glass of Wine or Ale 2 or 3 times a Day as necessity calls for it Price Two Shillings Six-pence the Bottle XV. Spiritus Paragoricus Or Our Bathing Spirit WHich is a safe sure and ready Medicine it may be taken inwardly in Paralitick and Appoplectick Cases but I here chiefly design it for external Uses it being a singular Arcanum in the Erysipelas and Gangrenes it alayeth the Pains of the Gout Cloths being dipt in it and applyed if it be laid to the Pulse at the Wrists its good in ardent Fevers it helpeth strained Limbs Pains and Aches in any part of the Body with benumed Nerves the shrinking of the Sinews and is very good to smell to and Bath the Temples and Fore-head for the Head-ach warming and comforting the parts where there seems to be a decay of Life or want of Nutriment Price Two Shillings Six-pence the Bottle XVI Pul-vis Antivermis Or Our Worm-powder BEing a certain Remedy killing and destroying the cause of all sorts of Worms in the Bodies of Men Women and Children it ought to be taken generally at the New or Full of the Moon in the Morning Fasting it works moderately by Stool you may give it to a Child of a year old a quarter of a Paper for one of 3 years half a