Selected quad for the lemma: water_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
water_n	boil_v	ounce_n	pint_n	6,886	5	11.3309	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50694	The accomplisht physician, the honest apothecary, and the skilful chyrurgeon detecting their necessary connexion and dependence on each other : withall a discovery of the frauds of the quacking empirick, the praescribing surgeon, and the practicing apothecary	Merret, Christopher, 1614-1695.; Harvey, Gideon, 1640?-1700?	1670 (1670)	Wing M1835; ESTC R26201	45,733	105

Borrage and a Baum Water all very full of Spirits if River Water may be so accounted to these is to be added one Ounce of that miraculous Threacle Water then to be dissolved a Dram of Confectio Alkermes and one Ounce of nauseous Syrup of Gillyflowers this being well shaked in the Viol you shall spy a great quantity of Gold swiming in leaves up and down for which your Conscience would be burdened should you give him less than five shillings for from the meanest Tradesman he expects without the least abatement three and six pence the ordinary and general price of all Cordials though consisting only of two Ounces of Baume Water and half an Ounce of Syrup of Gillyflowers Your Glyster shall be praepared out of two or three handfuls of Mallow leaves and one Ounce of common Fennil seeds boyl'd in water to a pint which strained shall be thickned with the Common Electuary Lenitive Rape Oyle and Brown Sugar and so seasoned with Salt This shall be conveighed into your Guts by the young Doctor his man through an engin he carries commonly about him and makes him smell so wholsom for which piece of service if you praesent your Engeneer below half a Crown he will think himself worse dealt with than those who empty your necessary Closets in the night The Master places to account for the Gut-Medicine though it were no more than water and salt and for the use of his man which he calls Porteridge eight Groats Item for a Stomachick Hepatick Splenetick and a Nephritick Plaister for each half a Crown What the total of this dayes Physick amounts to you may reckon The next afternoon or evening returns the Apothecary himself to give you a visit for should he appear in the morning it would argue he had little to do and finding upon examination you are rather worse than better by reason those Plaisters caused a melting of the gross humours about the Bowels and dissolved them into winds and vapours which fuming to the head occasion a great Headach dulness and drowsiness and part of 'em being dispersed through the Guts and Belly discommode you with a Colick a swelling of your Belly and an universal pain or lassitude in all your Limbs thus you see one day makes work for another however he hath the wit to assure you they are signs of the Operation of yesterdayes means beginning to move and dissolve the humours which successful work is to be promoted by a Cordial Apozem the repetition of a Carminative Glyster another Cordial to take by Spoonfuls and because your sleep hath been interrupted by the unquietness of swelling humours he will endeavour to procure you for this next night a Truce with your Disease by an Hypnotick potion that shall occasion rest Neither will he give you other cause than to imagine him a most careful man and so circumspect that scarce a Symptom shall escape his particular regard and therefore to remove your Headach by retracting the humours or rather as you are like to discern best by attracting humours and vapours he will order his young Mercury to apply a Vesicatory to the nape of your Neck and with a warm hand to besmear your Belly and all your Joints with a good comfortable Oyntment for to appease your pains The Cordial Apozem is a Decoction that shall derive its vertue from two or three unsavory Roots as many Herbs and Seeds with a little Syrup of Gillyflowers for three or four times taking which because you shall not undervalue by having it brought to you all in one Glass you shall have it sent you in so many Viols Draughts for every one of 'em shall be placed three shillings to your account which is five parts more than the whcle stands him in for the Cordial potion as much for the Hypnotick potion the same price for your Carminative Glyster no less and for the Epispastick Plaister a shilling Thus with the increase of your Disease you may perceive the increase of your Bill and therefore it 's no improper observation that the Apothecaries Practice follows the course of the Moon The third day producing an addition of new Symptoms and an augmentation of the old ones the Patient stands in need of new comfort from his Apothecary who tells him that nature begins now to work more strong and therefore all things goes well and never ill but because nature requires all possible assistance from Cordials and small evacuations he must expect the same Cordials over again but with the addition of greater ingredients it may be Magistery of Pearl or Oriental Bezoar in Powder the former being oft times but Mother of Pearl dissolved in distilled Vinegar the latter a cheat the Armenians put upon the Christians by ramming Pebbles down a Goats throat afterwards killing him and extracting the stones before witness out of his Maw which they sell for those rare Bezoars whereof the quantity of fifteen Grains I have known hath been taken by a Child of a year old that lay ill of the Small Pox without the least effect of sweat or any expulsion through the Pores And besides the repetition of a Glyster and the renewing of your Plaisters for the profit of your Physician you must be perswaded to accept of a comforting Electuary for the Stomach to promote digestion of a Collution to wash the slime and filth from your Tongue and to secure your Gums from the Scurvy of a Melilot Plaister to apply to the Blister was drawn the night before of some Spirits of Salt to drop into your Beer at Meals of three Pills of Ruffi to be swallowed down that night and three next morning which possibly may pleasure you with three Stools but are to be computed as 2 Doses each at a Shilling the Spirit of Salt a Crown the Ounce for the Stomach Electuary as much for the Glyster as before for your Cordial in relation to the Pearl and Bezoar their weight in Gold which is two pence a Grain the greatest cheat of my whole discourse for dressing of your Blister a shilling for the Plaister as formerly Here I praesume that candour in you as not to believe me so disingenious as to take the advantage of Apothecaries in producing any other than the best methods of their practice and that which savours the least of their frauds for in comparison with others though these are very palpable in regard there is not a valuable consideration respected or a proportionable Quid pro Quo they are such as may be judged passable yet when you are to reflect upon the total that shall arrise out the Arithmetical progression of charge of a fortnights Physick modestly computed at fifteen Shillings a day without the inclusion of what you please to praesent him for his care trouble and attendance I will not harbour so ill an opinion of him or give so rigid a censure as your self shall upon the following Oration your Glysterpipe-Doctor delivers to you with a Melancholy accent