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water_n	boil_v	ounce_n	strain_v	6,179	5	11.1360	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A37297	The charitable physitian, his hand extended to the curing of that contagious disease called the flux, or griping of the guts with other the most violent distempers now reigning amongst us, also their symptomes, whereby they are known ... / by J. Deacon.	Deacon, J. (John)	1657 (1657)	Wing D488; ESTC R20279	5,618	22

THE CHARITABLE PHYSITIAN HIS Hand Extended to the Curing of that Contagious Disease called the FLUX OR Griping of the Guts With other the most violent Distempers Now reigning amongst us As also their Symptomes whereby they are known All freely given to the Poor in distress By J. Deacon Orandum est ut sit mens sana in corpore sano LONDON Printed by W. G. are to be sold by Isaac Pridme at the Golden Falcon neer the New Exchange and for the Author at the Golden Anchor in Tower-street over against Barkin Church 1657. The charitable Physician his Hand extended to the Curing of that Contagious Disease called The FLUX OR Griping of the Guts Dear Countrey-men IT was the saying of an Heroick Spirit that Non solùm nobis nati sumus If I am born to do good for my Native Countrey I shall be very happy therein It was likewise the saying of one of the wise men of Greece Largire cum utilitate My heavenly Father my high and mighty Lord hath bestowed a Talent upon me which I desire not to tye up in a Napkin but to imploy it to the honour of the Giver and to bestow it to the profit of the Receiver For my Lord hath commanded me to cast my bread upon the waters and I shall find it after many dayes He commands me to do good to all but principally to those that are in distress To such I say as groan under the burthen of Gods heavy hand and consequently those that labour under the violence of this furious and almost contagious Disease now reigning amongst us which is called by the common people The FLUX with the Gripings in the Bowels By which I understand many perish for want of means to purchase fit Medicines for that Disease from the learned Physicians unto such alone I doe present this Talent this Mite this Drop of the Water of my Affections which by Gods blessing may be a means to extinguish at leastwise to abate the flames of these poore peoples calamities Which in the name of God take thus if thou art afflicted with this terrible Disease Foure or five Handfuls of Groundsel or as much thereof as by bruising you may get almost to the quantity of Half a Pinte of Juice unto which put the quantity of a Walnut of Fresh Butter which warm over the fire and so drink it off And every half houre afterwards for the space of foure houres drink one draught of Posset-Ale After foure houres expired eat one Yolk or two of Eggs potched Six or seven houres after take this Drink following which you must make thus A Drink Take one Handful of Plantane leaves one Handful of Mint and one Handful of Marygold flowers and as much Harts-horn as will lye upon a Shilling at twice with half an Ounce of Cinamon grosly beaten boiled in a Pottle of Fair Water until it be half consumed then strain it and after it is strained boyl it a walm or two with three Ounces of Hard Sugar Of which Drink give the Patient every two houres foure Spoonfuls But within ten or eleven houres after the taking of the Groundsel-Drink which I guess to be the houre of Rest then let the Patient take ten or twelve Spoonfuls of the Drink thus boyled and strained and let him take it for his ordinary drink for foure and twenty houres after Observe to give unto Children one third part prescribed to men or Women of the Groundsel-Drink and half of the Plantane-Drink and to increase the same as the Childe is in age and strength This Medicine being thus taken and these Rules observed at the beginning of the Disease with Gods help it giveth a speedy Cure But if the Disease have continued long upon thee then expect not so sudden a Cure and therefore use the same Medicine every other day viz. the Groundsel-Drink and the Plantane-Drink every day ordinarily the oftner the better The best and fittest time to give the Groundsel-Drink is at 6 a clock in the Morning But if thou art suddenly taken sick at any time of the day with this Disease then take the Groundsel-Drinke presently without delay for delayes in this case are very dangerous after thou hast been an houre in Bed And if thy constitution be so hard to work upon and thy body withall strong so that the Medicine beginneth not to work effectually in an hour and a halfs time then you may take such another draught of Groundsel But if through stubbornness of thy Disease and thy former long neglect thy body doth still languish then repair to my habitation or send me a discreet Messenger for Urines in this case are not to be trusted to though many unworthy Professors of the honourable Science of Physick doe rashly adventure to give Physick upon the bare inspection of the Urine to the utter destruction of the sick Patient although their idle prattle satisfies but yet deceives ignorant people A discreet Messenger I say that may be able to resolve me some questions concerning the state of your body By which Messenger I shall send you a Pill and a Powder which you shall have gratis provided the Messenger bring me a Certificate under the hand of the Minister that you are poor that so the Poor may not be deceived Which Pill and Powder are of excellent virtue for opening the Obstructions of the Bowels and evacuates that sharp humor and wind which causeth this violent distemper and by the taking thereof not onely this but many Diseases have been Cured and as many Prevented to the preservation of thousands in this and other Nations It is excellent for the cure of the Dropsie for by its evacuative quality it unburdeneth the languishing body from those Hydropick humours which invade the life of the Patient The Gout though a Disease reputed incurable yet this hath cured the same at twice taking some Topical Medicine being applyed to the part intentionally to discusse the humour collected and farther taking the same Medicine once in half a year intercepteth the furious reintration of the Disease which commonly pursueth those that have had the Disease every Spring and Fall It hath likewise mightily prevailed in the Curing of those which have had the Stone which it dissolveth by its penetrative faculty and afterwards by its expulsive faculty it forces the Stone away It Cureth the Quotidian Tertian and Quartan Ague though indeed the Quartan requireth longer time but the rest it most commonly cureth at the first taking It hath cured many of the Disease Struma commonly called the Kingsevil if the Disease be not too inveterate and the Mass of Blood wholly corrupted and consequently it cureth many Ulcers Apostheums Morphews Itch and such like deformities of the Skin for by the operative virtue of this Medicine those sharp humours which produce these unseemly and unwish'd for disasters are carried away and that at the first or second taking but generally the third Dose performs the work without question if the constitution be