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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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1698
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Wing S4988; ESTC R219129
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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-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-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
as will lye upon a Groat an hour before the Fit and Sweat plentifully in bed drinking a little Rosemary Marygold or Cardus Posset-drink which being continued four or five times generally takes it off For Fluxes and such Distempers in Women as debilitate their Strength take a Pill in a glass of Sack mull'd with Cinamon -For the Gout and Rheumatisms of the whole Body take a Pill in a glass of Rhenish-wine drinking sometimes of our Aqua-Vitae Magistralis this generally eases at twice taking it divides also clods of Blood and breaks inward Imposthumes carrying off their matter and heals them as also Bruises and Squats For difficulty of making Water the Strangury Stone or Gravel in the Kidnies dissolve 2 Pills the bigness of 2 large grey Peas in a pint of White-wine and sweeten it with 5 or 6 Ounces of Syrup of Marsh-mallows and let it be for 2 draughts with 3 hours Intermission in the most violent pain drinking often a draught of posset-drink wherein is boyled some Pelitory of the wall and a few Gromwel seeds at the discretion of the Patient keeping your self warm in Bed always when it 's taken and so will the Offending matter be carried off For Children within 3 or 4 Years Old you may give the bigness of a Pepper Corn and so it may be increased or diminished in it's Dose according to the Wisdom and Discretion of the Parent Price 12 d. the Box. ☞ Observe Always when you take of this Pill to take some of our Cordial Drops in a glass of Sack or other Cordial Water to refresh the Spirits III. Aqua Bezoratica Our Cordial or Plague Water 1 THis Cordial is good in Sadness Melancholly and Dejection of mind pains of the Spleen reviving the Spirits 2. It powerfully resists Poison Plague Small-Pox and all sorts of malign Fevers it cures the biting of Venomous Beasts 3. It is a good Stomachick Comforts the Head Brain and Bowels it causes a good Appetite taking away Sickness at Heart and Stomach it 's profitable against Swoonings fainting Suffocacations and Fits of the Mother 4. This Water is Sudorifick Alexipharmick and Antifebritick It is also a Cordial Cephalick and a great Restorative and is excellent against cold and moist Diseases It 's Vse and Dose YOu may take from half a Spoonful to ◠Spoonfuls or more in the morning Fasting a little before Dinner and at bed time it may be also taken at any time of the Day or Night upon any Fainting or Sickness at Stomach as occasion requires or in any languishing Conditions It may be taken alone or in case of great weakness in a glass of Canary Price Sixpence the Ounce IV. Panacea Nostri Or Our Prevalent Emetick and Cathartick Pouder THe Virtue and Nature whereof is such that it expells all Contagious and Malignant Humours by the Emunctories viz. by Vomit Stool Sweat and Urine and that after a most friendly and pleasant way few Doses whereof will radically cleanse the Body and Blood from the original cause of old chronick and Hereditary Diseases as the Epilepsie Convulsion Madness Schrophula or the Disease called the King 's Evil Leprosy or any foulness or corruption of the Blood French-Pox and other most grievous Diseases as Ulcers Fistula's Noli me Tangere's and in all kinds of Diseases in Men and Women except Women with Child of what Nature soever they be It 's Vse and Dose FOr any of the aforesaid chronick Diseases let the Body be once or twice well purged with our Sal Lenitium then after 3 Days respite take a Paper of this Pouder in the pulp of an Apple or prune a little fine Sugar or Syrup of Gilly-flowers and if in case at any time this Medicine should not have any visible Operation at all yet never the less it will perform its Office and drive forth the Distemper Now if the Disease be Rebellious it must be continued to be taken every 5th Day and the intermitting 3d Day take a Dose of our Balsamick Pill as 't is prescribed this method doth very well For the Scurvy Pox Gonorrheae and inveterate Ulcers For Agues let it be taken 2 hours before the Fit to cleanse the Body and to perfect the Cure proceed as is directed in the use of the Pill For Fits and Convulsions in Children let it be taken in Breast-milk and not exceeding the weight of a Rape-seed It may be given to New-born Infants but as they increase in strength so may the Dose be somewhat increased at the discretion of the Parent For Children of 3 or 4 Years of Age give the 3d part of a Paper For those of 7 8 or 9 give half a Paper always observing to take Posset-drink freely during the Operation The Paper contains 3 Doses at 2 s. 6 d. V. Elixer Magnum Cordialis Or Our Great and Famous Cordial Drops BEing a wonderful Arcanum whose Virtue and Prevalency hath been powerful in these following Diseases as the Falling-sickness Apoplexy Lethargy Palsey Convulsions and most other Diseases of the Head Brain and Nerves they cure the Vapours in Women and Fits of the Mother they remove Ostructions and pains of Spleen they are also an admirable Remedy in the Plague Spotted-fever Small-pox and Measles or any malignant Fever resisting putrifaction of the Blood which have been confirmed by about 19 Years Experience in our daily Practice c. It 's Vse and Dose TAke as follows from 4 drops to 12 14 20 25 or 30 to 60. in Canary or any other proper Cordial and for the diseases of the Head let it be taken in a Cephalick Cordial and also let the Temples and Nostrils be bathed therewith For Children that are like to have the Small-pox give this Medicine to bring out the Distemper increasing or diminishing the Dose as you see convenient in a glass of Sack hot Mace-ale or some convenient Cordial disposing the party for Sweat drinking often a good draught of hot posset-drink and boyl there in Marygold-flowers a top of Balm Angelica and Rosemary in Surfeits let it be taken in the manner aforesaid observing that the Stomach be first cleansed by often taking of our Aq. vitae Magistralis for Children that are inclined to Rickets or breeding of their Teeth give some drops in a little syr of Cowslips or Poppies In intermitting Fevers give above 60 drops in a glass of Sack or Rhenish Wine In continual Fevers give it every 6 hours in the manner aforesaid always minding to take at the hour of rest a small Dose of our Balsamick pill as also our Pulvis Antefibriticus according to directions in its place In Consumptions and great Weakness take 40 or 50 drops Mornings and Nights in a glass of Canary as also 2 or 3 times a Day for the space of 40 Days together ☞ Observe Women with Child may safely take this Medicine Price four Shillings the Bottle VI. Pulvis Antifebriticus Noster Or our General Febrifuge 1. AN admirable pouder against Fevers of all sorts A few Doses thereof