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B08404
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[A Brief account of some choice & famous medicines]
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1676
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Wing B158; ESTC R170413
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in the beginning and all bruises caused by falls or other waies The same directions are to be observed in the taking of it as are prescribed in Venice Treacle and the same quantity to cause Sweat the Virtues of both being the same Mithridates King of Pontus a most Potent and Learned Monarch was the Inventor of this Noble Antidote who being vanquished by Pompey and fearing he would lead him in Triumph to Rome took Poyson from which he received not the least trouble having before made frequent trial of this Medicine for the prevention of such poisonous practises which he suspected might treacherously be used against him and it proved indeed so great a Counter-poyson that although he wanted not skill to frame his deadly Potion yet could not his body feel any ill effect by it whereupon he called a Souldier to him desiring him to kill him whose slow and trembling hand Mithridates himself forced to his own slaughter Amongst his Treasuries and Spoils a great many Medicinal Receipts were found which the King had laid up most safely as great secrets Pompey brought these to Rome and gave them to Damocrates and Andromachus Roman Physitians who approved of all the Remedies but especially of the Mithridate whose description Damocrates set forth and therefore it is called by the Antients Mithridatium Damocratis This Mithridate hath been most in use until the last great Plague since which time in some parts of the Country Venice Treacle called Theriaca Andromachi because it was set forth by Andromachus one of Nero's Physitians hath been in greater request Mithridates is justly made the Author of both for Damocrates Andromachus only disposed the matter whereof they consist more orderly added some few things It is not without good Ground that they call Mithridate the Father and Theriack the Mother of Medicaments seeing in Dignity and Excellency they far exceed all others and comprehend all others Faculties for there is scarce any preternatural affection whereunto one of these duly prepared doth not conduce THeriaca Andromachi or Venice Treacle resists all Poyson Diseases and Evils which may happen unto the Body of Man Cures Head-Aches Giddiness Dulness of Sight and Hearing the Apoplexy Falling Sickness Difficulty of Breathing Old or New Coughs Helps Concoction Cold Stomachs all Gripings and Wind in the Bowels the Jaundice Dropsie Gout hardness of the Spleen Vain Fears and Melancholy Pains in the Joints and Kidnies It kills Worms represses the immoderate beating of the Heart comforting and fortifying it greatly together with the Brain and whole Body Is good against Swoonings and Weakness preserves from Contagion in Pestilential times Expels the Monthly Flowers casts out the Dead Child as also the Stone in the Reins and Bladder It helps the bitings of Mad Dogs and Stinging of Adders if inwardly given and outwardly applyed It opens all Obstructions gives a good and lively colour to those who want it and hath been found upon long Experience to be of singular use and benefit in the beginning of all sorts of Agues and Feavers especially Quartans In Feavers Agues all cold Distempers of the Limbs and Joynts and other inconveniences occasioned by cold and Bruises a Man or Woman may take One Dram and half or Two Drams in Carduus Posset or Mace Beet to Children the quantity must be proportioned according to their several ages Cover your self warm in the Bed and Sweat three or four hours or so long as shall be thought convenient drinking either Carduus Posset or Mace Beer in the time of Sweating at the end of which have an hot Shirt in readiness to be put on and wipe off the Sweat with warm Cloaths In other cases a Dram or half a Dram may be taken at a time Mornings and Evenings in Sack or Beer To preserve from Contagion mix one Ounce of the Confection of Gilliflowers with half an Ounce of this and take the quantity of a Nutmeg at a time Mornings and Evenings or when there shall be occasion DIascordium is an Exccellent Cordial in the Plague and Pestilential Feavers settles and composes the Spirits when disturbed by Feaverish or any other Distempers Allays the pains of the Head is good to be used by Women in Child bed to hasten their Labour and help their usual Sickness at that time It stops Fluxes strengthens the Stomach and Heart and provokes Sleep VVeak People and young Children may take from five Grains to a Dram those who are stronger a Dram and half or somtimes two Drams LOndon Treacle is a good Antidote in Pestilential times resists Poyson helps Digestion strengthens cold Stomachs and is a good Cordial in any Disease whatever A quarter of an Ounce or half as much may be taken at a time or it being mixt with an equal quantity of Confection of Gilliflowers the quantity of a Nutmeg or more may be taken Mornings and Evenings or once in six hours COnfection of Gilliflowers is of a temperate quality and a very choice Cordial It resists the Plague or any Venom the Small-Pox and Measles as also any sort of Feaver or Ague strengthens Nature and is good against Consumptions and all other Weaknesses Give the quantity of a Wallnut so often as cause shall be seen If one Dram of Confection of Hyacinth be mixed with one Ounce of this it will add to its Cordial virtue in Feavers and if one Dram of Confection of Alkermes be mixed with a like quantity it will render it the more Effectual in any kind of VVeakness One Ounce likewise of this Confection being mixed with half an Ounce of Diascordium Mithradat or Venice Treacle and the quantity of a Nutmeg taken when there shall be cause will be of great benefit in such cases wherein those Medicines may be used as also a good preservative against any Infection or ill and Corrupted air THe Tincture of Roses corrects and strengthens the Stomach mightily is an approved Medicine in violent Vomitings and Purgings also when digestion is Weak and Natural Appetite to Meat Defective It is highly profitable in the Disease called Cholera which is a violent Vomiting and Purging both at once and useth to kill very suddenly But in this case it must be taken in a great quantity at a time as Glasful after Glasful till a Quart three Pints or more be drankt and if the party happens to Vomit up the first draughts he ought nevertheless to keep on drinking until it staies in the Stomach It causes even to admiration a wonderful calm in the Body by appeasing of those hot Tempests which sharp Cholerick humours have stirred up and by mixing it self with the humours offending and taking away whatever is acrimonious in them Also it is a very pleasing and useful Liquor in all hot Feavers continual or intermitting to be used for ordinary Drink its constant use being that which takes away the cause of those Diseases and this being done the effects must necessarily cease To make this Tincture take of dryed red Rose leaves