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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
virtue_n	salt_n	spirit_n	volatile_a	987	5	12.2917	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50470	Rhachitidologia, or, A tract of the disease rhachitis, commonly called the rickets shewing the signes, cause, symptoms, and prognosticks : together with a most accurate and ingenious method of cure / written originally in Latin ... by ... Dr. John Mayow ... and now ... faithfully rendred into English by W.S. ; to which is subjoyn'd a profitable appendix, touching weights and measures us'd in the composition of medicines and exhibition of medicinal doses.	Mayow, John, 1641-1679.	1685 (1685)	Wing M1534; ESTC R43442	29,746	155

wood The knotty parts or tops of the Fir-tree Root of China Sarsaparilla The three sorts of Sanders The Root of Osmond-Royal or rather the Spikes or little Fibres of its Roots The Roots of Male-Fern or rather the Buds just bursting forth out of the Earth Roots of Grass Asparagus Eringo Succory Bur-dock The Capillary Herbs and especially the English black Maiden-hair Spleen-wort Wall Rue or Tent-wort Harts-tongue Liver-wort The Bark of Caper-roots Male Speed-well Agrimony Brook-lime Water-Cresses The Leaves and Flowers of Sage Rosemary Archangel Betony Tamarisk The preparation of Steel as its Salt or Vitriol Tartar Castoreum The Flowers of Brimstone Earth-Worms Hog-lice prepared And the like Whereof Compounds may be formed after this manner A Decoction R. The Spikes of the Roots of Osmond-Royal or the Roots of Male-Fern or the Buds of its Roots scarce yet burst out of the Ground one handful Boyl the same in a Pint of Milk or Spring water to the Consumption of the third part Let the Colature be edulcorated with Sugar and taken twice or thrice in a day Another Take Of the Leaves of Tee one dram of the flowers of Sage and of Betony of each half a dram Whereupon the same being put into a fit Vessel pour of Water which hath boyled a while one pint Infuse them close stop'd and luke-warm for about an hour's space Let the Colature be edulcorated with Sugar and drank as the other A Bochet of the Roots of China Sarsaparilla and Sassafras boyled in Spring water may be made use of A Decoction Take of the fibres or spikes of the Roots of Osmond-Royal roots of Bur-dock Grass-roots and roots of Succory of each one ounce of the Herbs of Male-speedwel Agrimony Harts-tongue Liver-wort Maiden hair of each half a handful Of the shavings of Harts horne and Ivory of each half an ounce stoned Raisons one ounce Boyl them in four pounds of Spring-water to the consumption of the third part add thereto of White-wine or Rhenish half a pound and presently strain it into a fit Vessel to which let there be put of the leaves of Brook-lime Water-cresses and of the Tops of the Fir-tree of each half a handful of Juniper-berries half an ounce make an Infusion Warm and close stopt for about two hours Keep the Colature in Glasses well closed and edulcorate it at your pleasure The Dose is two or three Ounces at medical hours Medicated Ale Take of the Wood of the Lentisk-tree Rosemary Roots of Sarsaparilla of Osmond-royal or of Male-fern of each three ounces Herbs Agrimony Maiden-hair Speedwell Harts tongue Sage Betony of each Mij Tops of the Fir-tree Tamarisk of each Mj. boyl them in four Gallons of Ale to the Consumption of one let the Colature Ferment or Work and then repose it in a small Vessel wherein hang a little bag made of fine Linen and filled with the following things viz. Hog-lice washed in white-wine and lightly bruised No. 200. Juniper berries ℥ ij Nutmegs sliced No. 2 together with a piece of steel or Iron to sink the Bag. If there be any suspition of the Seurvy you likewise may put into the Vessel the leaves of Brooklime and Water-cresses of each Mij Let them remain there about a fortnight and then let the Liquor be taken for ordinary drink An Electuary Take Conserve of the roots of Succory and of the flowers of Betony of each one ounce Conserve of Rosemary-flowers of the flowers of Tamarisk and Rinds of Lemmons of each half an ounce preserved Myrobalanes No. 2 of the compound powder of Crabs-claws one dram Cream of Tartar and flowers of Salt Armoniac of each half a dram of yellow Sanders ℈ j. with Syrup of Coral as much as is sufficient make an Electuary Let the Patient take the quantity of a Nutmeg in the morning and at five a clock in the Afternoon drinking thereupon a draught of some proper Liquor A Powder Take of the Powder of prepar'd Hog-lice two drams of Nutmegs half an ounce of the flowers of salt Armoniac two scruples make a Powder the Dose is from 8 Gr. to 15 in some Apozeme Broth or any other convenient Liquor Pills This same Powder may be reduced into a Pilulary Mass with a sufficient quantity of Capivius's Balsom to be formed into little Pills The Dose is about a Scruple A Powder Take of the Roots of Osmond Royal or of Male-fern one dram and an half of the Roots of Male Peony one dram Wood of Sassafras yellow Sanders Seeds of Water-cresses of each one Scruple candied Orange Peel two drams make a Powder The Dose is from half a Scruple to a Scruple as above Lozenges or Tablets Of the prescribed Powder you may form Lozenges with Seaven times the weight of white Sugar dissolved in black cherry-water and boyled to a tabulary consistence each of them being in weight one dram Let from half a dram to a dram be taken twice in a day drinking after it some appropriate Liquor A Distilled Water Take of the root of Cuckow pint Male Peony Osmond-royal or Male-fern of each four ounces Leaves of Sage Betony Rosemary water-cresses Brooklime Male-speedwell Liver-wort tops of the Fir-tree of each three handfulls of green Walnuts half a pound washed Hog-lice three ounces cleansed Earth-worms one pound of the best Castoreum one dram To these being cut and bruised pour six pounds viz. three quarts of Posset-drink made with white-wine distill them in a Common Still let the whole Liquor be mingled The Dose is from one ounce to two ounces twice in a day after the taking of some solid Medicine CHAP. XXII Chymical Specifics Also of Sweating and Bathing AMong the Remedies which are approved in this Affect that which was invented by the honorable Boyle called by the name of Ens Veneris is exceeding famous It is composed of Salt Armoniac and edulcorated Colcothar sublimed twice or thrice together The Dose is from three Grains to six in some convenient Liquor at the hour of sleep I suppose the efficacy of that Medicine chiefly ariseth from the Salt Armoniac in as much as by reason of the very great tenuity of its parts it is highly useful to take away the Obstructions that do procure this Malady and it is likewise probable that the Flowers of Salt Armoniac are sublimed together with the Colcothar a certain narcotick Sulphur of the Colcothar of an Earthy or Copper-like nature or Quality doth ascend together with the Salt Armoniac And that kind of Sulphur seemeth not very meet for this Disease A certain Artificial Salt of an Armoniac quality and of notable vertue may be composed after this manner Take of the Volatile Salt of Harts-Horne Blood or Urine a sufficient quantity upon which being put into a long Vial pour rectified Spirit of Salt or of Sulphur rectified per campanam drop by drop untill Ebullition can no longer be excited this Salt being resolved let it be filtered and by a gentle heat reduced to the dryness of a Salt The Dose is three or