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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A88710	Delaun reviv'd, vix. A plain and short discourse of that famous doctor's pills, their use and virtues VVith choice receipts for the cure of the scurvy, dropsy, jaundies, venereal and other diseases. Before I speak to this famous medicine, I will declare who Delaun was; then, the price of his pill and how to take it, and of its several virtues in order, in such plain words, as to the weakest capacity may understand: and I intreat those who hope for help hereby, would throughly read this short book, and observe my directions for their own good and the authors's credit.	Lomax, Nathaniel.	1680 (1680)	Wing L45B; ESTC R232148	9,647	14

ElderNowers Broom tops of each threehandfuls Horse radish Parsly and fennel roots winter bark if you have it of each three Ounces Coriander Pustard Carrot seeds of each two Dunces the roots being sliced herbs cut seeds bruised steep them in six or seven Gallons of Ale for foud or five daies drink half a Pint three or four times a day for twenty or thirty daies The Poor will praise and pray for me for this cheap but excellent Receipt the Rich may infuse them in white or Rhenish wine or distil them and if they add of Guaitum China Snssafras of each half a pound of Nutmegs four ounces 6 Oranges sliced it will be more effectual and possibly one of the best of Medicines insomuch that continuing this Drink as aforesaid and taking Melauns Pills two or three times weekly and both before and after this Method as also eating the first mentioned three herbs as Sallad with Elder Vinegar Rubbing the gumms and mouth dayly with Olive pickle scaling the teeth c. This Scurvy Pest ope vivina will soon submit and vanish Receipt for the Dropsy Jaundies c. In diseases of the Liver and Spleen Agues Dropsies Jaundies Liver Spleen D●osy Jaundies Stomach Choler phlegmes add to this Receipt more White-wine good store of Turmerick roots Barberry bark Celandine and Vine leaves more Broom some Saffron and with frequent taking of this Pill which purges Phlegm and Choler warms and strengthens the Stomach creates a good appetite and Digestion under God you may depend upon relief Diseases of the Brest It is very effectual in disquiet Coughs Catarrhs Phthisic c. as far as purgation is requisite and nothing better after Fevers small Pox Measles Agues c. Wormes Piles c. It kills all wormes in the Stomach and Gutts in all Ages Sexes and Constitutions Cures Piles anointing the infected part with Oyntment of Roses and Aegyptiacum which the Apothecaries sell equally mixt WOMENS DISEASES Womens diseases barrenness As to Distempers that afflict this Sex this Pill claims Priority inasmuch as Hysteric Passions or Mother Fits are caused through the vice of the Nerves and consequently the overstuffing of the Ventricles of the stomach as the uncontradictable Famous Willis affirms and from the same Cause Barrenness Green Sickness want of Monthly benefits ☞ and for that reason this Pill is dangerous for Women with child it strengthens weak backs Cures Whites c. Reducing the Womb to an excellent state in order to Procreation which causes Experienced Midwives and Heirless Dames to flock from all parts for these Pills which are especially proper to be taken with Tunbridge Epsom and other Mineral Waters being so great a Cordial and warmer of the Genital-parts which hundreds can Attest GONORHOEA Or involuntary issuing of Foetid matter from the Privities Running of the Reins with Sharpness of Urine swelling in the Testicles Warts painful erection of the Privities weeping remainders after ill begun and uneffected Cures by unskilful pretenders This Pill though it hath not in it one Grain of Mercury which many think to be the only Specific against Venereal Distempers Running of the Reins but I deny and dread it most effectually Cures the Patient being temperate and purging freely every day or as often as strength permits for about twenty dayes less or more as the case presents But both in this and a Confirmed Pox when not only the Mass of Blood is corrupted but also the bones tainted and tortured with restless night pains Shankers Warts swelling in the Groin Pox. the Nose or Pallate sinking or Ulcerated Nodes and dreadful Memorandums in the Shins Arms Shoulders Head c. I advife the sick to twenty or thirty dayes Diet-drink which I have alwaies in readiness at two shillings the quart or the Ingredients which may be sent to any part of England with directions to make it at home Diet drink sweating necessary in the Cure of the Pox Scurvy since it will not keep long enough to be sent into the Countrey Which pleasant liquor with the help of this Pill taken twice a week and sweating as often perfectly roots out the Venereal venom and in truth the same drink is no less Effectual against the Gout Rheumatism and Scurvy for Omne majus continent in se minus wherefore those squeamish Dames who disdain Medicines that cure this Malady are blame worthy inasmuch as if they be not Mercurial ones they are as safe and render the blood as sweet as milk and consequently cannot but cure less dangerous Diseases To those that cannot attain to my Diet drink I commend this Cheap but very effectual one Receipt for Diet drink for the Pox. Take of Sarsaparilla white and mealy twenty ounces of trude Antimony in powder twelve ounces ty'd up in linnen of Flinty China five ounces of Sassafras Guaicum Mastick-wood Harts-horn Ivory of each three ounces of Bark of Guaicum of red and white Saunders of each an ounce steep them in twenty pints of spring-spring-water over a gentle fire in a vessel close stopt and Luted for twelve hours then boyl them as long strain the liquor and add to the same ingredients eight pints more water three ounces of Liquorish Nutmegs and Coriander seeds of each one ounce boyl them four hours strain and mix both together let them settle drink every day two quarts for thirty dayes refraining all other liquors I commend this easy firm way of cure to the world hoping the Diseased will sin no more least a worse thing befal them observing also these following directions The same Drink in many other Diseases Those who have Vlcers in the Privities or Throat may tonch them dayly three or four times with a little Allum water or burn'd Allum mixt with honey or Oyntment called Aegyptiacum And by degrees being patient and penitent and using soberly the former directions Dyet-drink and Pill the Preserver of men may avert his judgements and a Cure will come in course Those who have any swelling in the Testicles may apply this or the like Pultis A Pultis for sweld Members Take of grated bread three ounces of Linseeds and Camomile flowers in powder of each one ounce of Mallows leaves cut two handfuls boyl the bread and leaves in water two hours till there be but little moisture then add the powders and two ounces of Oyntment of Roses use part of this morning and night spread it thick upon a thin bladder and linnen over it bind up the affected parts Trus-fashion and if possible with a Truss to appease discuss and cure that torturing tumour Swelling in the Groin requires the same or some such like Pultis adding three ounces of White Lilly roots boyld to mash one ounce of Foenigreek seeds allowing as much fresh hogs Lard or Butter as will kéep it very moist Pultis for a Bubo This will ripen and break the painful swelling which must be Lanc'd or ought to be and kept tented with