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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42987	A short treatise shewing the causes and remedies of that general disease spread abroad throughout this nation, commonly termed by many the plague of the guts but it is very probable to bee that sort of flux, called by the name of dysenteria, or red-flux. With some other remarkable remedies for other diseases worthy to bee noted. Published by N.H. of Dorchester, in the county of Dorset for the good of those that desire their health. Try and trust. Try man as the instrument, but trust God as the helper.	N. H.	1658 (1658)	Wing H100A; ESTC R215851	7,379	24

bee it spoken it is nothing else or nothing lesse than the Flux in the bowels in that I finde it takes them in the same manner as it did those that had the Flux in Ireland and are now cured with the same Remedies And for the better understanding hereof I shall here set down 1 Briefly and in general what a Flux it 2 The several kinde of Fluxes together with their causes that you may discern thereby the one from the other and what little probability there is that it should bee the Plague of the Guts 3 The Remedy for this or any of the like Disease so called though inferior unto it 4 The ordering of the body afterward in case of the worst though I never found any danger to ensue Of the Flux in general If it come through much eating or drinking or through Flegmatick matter it cometh not often nor continueth long hee needeth no remedy unless it bee caused of overmuch weakness Of the Flux Lyenteria to wit Cholle and Flegme This is an infirmity of the retentive vertue of the stomack with the slipperiness of the Guts whereby the ment being taken very suddenly without digestion like as it was received passeth away by stool Of the Flux or Laske Diarrhea This is a waterish Lask with griping but without excoriation of the bowels and without heat whereby the body is consumed It is caused of all humors of the body Of the Flux or Laske called Dysenteria viz. The Red-Flux And this is the Flux which by likelihood is this Disease which is spread abroad in this Nation This is an exulceration or excoriation of the intrals And is described in this manner It is a pain of the intrals which inflameth sretteth and excoriateth the same so as with the matter of the scouring blood is avoyded and it causeth much gnawing which causeth the Pattern to go often to stool The causes are sharp humors which passeth through the bowels and there exulcerateth the same fr●● and take away the fatness Also when the body is over-charged with Choller Melancholy and Flegme of which nature seeks to unburthen her self Another kinde of Dysenteria or Bloody-Flux This cometh without scraping of the Guts and of much more blood than the former wherefore it is rather taken for the Flux of the Liver than Dysenteria though wrongfully so called For an ordinary Laske or Flux in Children or griping * Take half a handfull of Couch-grass cut fit to boyl of Carraway-seed and Fennel-seed bruised or Anniseed instead of the Fennel-seed if it cannot be had of each half an ounce nine or ten Plantaine leaves washed and cut boyl these in a quart of water to a pinte then strain it after put in of your Pomgranet ryne poudred of Cynnamon poudred of each as much as will lye on a groat and a quarter of a pinte of milk or less and set it over the fire again and let it boyl for the space of halfe a quarter of an hour then take it off the fire and let the childe drink of it warm morning and evening A special Remedy for the cure of the Flux called Dysenteria or for any other Flux * Take the inner ryne of an Oak one great handfull Anniseed and Carraway-seed bruised alike one ounce of Couch-grass cut fit to boyl one great handful of Plantane washed and cut one little handful boyl these in a pottle of water to a quart then strain it and put it over the fire again and put in a quarter of a pinte of milk to sweeten it something because of the rankness of the grass as also Cynnamon poudred and Sanguis Draconis or Dragons blood of each as much as will lye on six pence let it boyl again half a quarter of an hour Drink of this a good draught first and last warm fasting in the morning two hours after and two or three houres after supper ere you go to bed Note this that you may not bee deceived your Couch-grass is not your Knot grass for that will do more hurt than good but it is your Long-grass which runs upon the ground with sweet knots or knobs For a Flax in extremity with never so great gripings and the party worn away Take of Almonds one pound blancht and stampt in a Mortar small twelve yolks of new laid Eggs roasted hard bray them together take a pinte of strong Vinegar put it into the stuffe and mingle them altogether and put all into a fair pot of earth but remember to stamp it well then take five or six spoonfulls at once warm in a cup and drink four or five times a day if need be Proba●●●● est Although this Receit cannot chuse but bee good in it selfe yet it hath not been tryed by mee as often as the former Remedy In all these Fluxes you may make use of this white Plaister if you please and partly because it is good for many special uses besides this disease of the Flux and partly because children are not so subject to take inward applications as outward therefore I shall ●er● set down how it is made with the Remedies thereof Take of the best S●ll●● oyl a quart and four ounces Red-lead and White-lead alike one pound well beaten into fine dust Cape-soap or Castle-soap finely sliced twelve ounces mingle these well together in an earthen pipkin well glazed it must hold a gallon to hold this quantity ●●ir it with an Iron ball having a handle to it when this is well mingled together the Soap come●● upward then set it upon a fire of ●o●ls an hour and hal● still stirring it till the redness hee turned into a gray colour then drop a drop of it upon a trencher and if it cleave unto the trencher it is enough then pour it out by little and little upon a table and with a little fresh grease anoint your hands and the table make it up ●●roules as fast as you can keep it for your use two or three yeares the elder the better But you according to your need you may take an equal quantity of each whether lesse or more I 〈◊〉 of this b●● by the way It being laid to the stomack provokes appetite it taketh a way any grief●● or about the stomack It is a pr●●●●● melody for the Co●lick it being appiled to the belly And being laid to the re●ne● of the back it easeth the bloody-flux the running of the Rel●●s the h●●● of the Kidneyes the weakness of the back It healeth all swellings and bruises It drieth away running humors without breaking of the skin It taketh away all aches It breaketh fellons and other impostumes and healeth them being laid to the head it is good for the Evill It helpeth the headach and good for eyes This in a Manuscript There was once a Gentlewoman extraordinarily perplexed night and day with such inward gripings and frettings for the ●pice of almost half a year as I was truly informed by her husband so as that the pain with the

continuance of it was not nor cannot now bee expressed Shee had taken Physick from several Physitians with all the advice that could bee given or means administred unto her yet all was in vain but still grew worse and worse rather than better At the last I my self being brought by the providence of God into the Town where shee dwelt and hearing of it I went unto her and had some conference with her desiring withall to accept of a Drink which I would make for her I having had as I told her much experience of good it had done and likewise to incourage her thereunto I certified her that there could bee no danger in the taking of it seeing they were all ordinary things and that there was nothing Physical whereby to stir the body or to make it any way worse than it was yet shee was loath to venture upon it because shee had tried so many Physitians already and they had done her no good which is a great fault found in many because they have had a disease long and have tried many therefore if any come that should prescribe any other way then what was prescribed before they think it impossible as if one person may not exceed another and may not have knowledge in that disease which another hath not so this Gentlewoman having had is so long thought it impossible to receive any cure and yeelded her selfe for dead being worn away to an Anatomy or Consumption yet by much perswasion I obtained her leave to make it for her and shee promised mee to take it and that night shee drank the first draught but it made such a striving and stirring in her body to get the mastery of the disease that I could not perswade her to drink of it any more yet that ●very draught made a perfect cure and shee recovered Now because the body is over-burthened with Choller Melancholy and Flegm therefore I hold it very useful and necessary that before you take any of the former Remedies for the Flux that you take this purge which is very needful for the expelling of those humors formerly mentioned if so bee that the party bee not too much worn away if so then I could advise you to forbear any such means and onely make use of that drink for them of riper years noted with a star neither is it to bee given unto children for the drinke it selfe will cure it without any such physick A preparative for the purge which I could advise you to take before Take as much Senae finely poudered as will lye on half a crown with the pap of two or three roasted apples well buttered and sweetned with sugar and so mingled altogether with the powder of Senae eat that instead of your supper and drink a little warm broth after if you please a little before you go to bed it will lye in your body all the night and not in the least disturb you of your sleep but towards the morning it will begin to work and it may give you some two or three stools according to the temper of your body it may bee more yet it will not make you sick at all but you may wear a Wastecoat that night or when you finde it beginne to worke let a Wastecoat bee warmed or keep it in your bed all the night that it may be fit for use I would not have you to rise out of your bed about the house untill you have taken the purge or finde that first to move or stir in your body About an houre after the preparative have done working take this purge following in your bed Take of your Diaphenicon give five drams to a woman and fix to a man in a quarter of a pinte of White-wine stirring it about by the fire with your knife untill it bee wholly dissolved and so take it warm lying there till it begin to work I mean for the space of an houre then let your cloaths bee well warmed and rise having before hand a good fire prepared in your Chamber cloath your selfe very hot the hotter the better although you are in a sweating condition all the while the physick is working and fit by the fire or walls up and down in your Chamber till it hath done working and keep out the ayre as much as may bee After every stool you ought to drinke ● draught of broth made of a small neck of Veal which must bee put over the fire before you take the purge that it may bee in readiness putting into your liquor onely a good crust of wheaten bread and a little salt About an hour or more after the purge hath done working take your rest upon your bed being covered hot for the space o● an hour and half for to refresh nature that hath been something wearied In the mean time let this broth be made and provided Take a Chicken and boyl it in fair water with oat-meal groats or great Oat-meal finely beaten in a mortar strain them in a cloath with some of the liquor then put thereto Violet leaves Strawberry leaves the roots of Fennel and Parsly the pith of them being taken out with a little whole Mace Saffron and Nutmeg and one penniworth of Currans boyl half the quantity away and so eat and drink thereof This purge purgeth Flegme Choller and Melancholy very easily and never offends the stomack neither maketh the party sick taking it in this manner after the preparative before mentioned There are certaine cautions to bee observed both for meats and drinks for the space of two or three dayes while you are taking the Physick or the drink 1 Remember that for that time you drink neither Beer or Ale strong or small neither any Wine unless it bee red Wine with a toast in it but let your drink bee water and sugar ordered in this man●er boyl in three pintes of water an ounce of Cynamon broken in peeces for the space of half an hour and then make it a little sweet with loaf Sugar and so drink it as you do your ordinary drink warm 2 Abstain during the same time or longer from Cabbage or pottage made of it and green fruit 3 Abstain from salt meats as also from fresh Eeles and Playse 4 Put in your pottage leaves of Plantane three or four and eat dry meats for the most part as Mutton your Beef moderately salted Rabbets c. And remember that at night when you go to bed the same day in which you have taken the purge you may take a draught of that drink which is appointed for this disease If you are to make use of Glisters it is good to put the juyce of Plantane into them Exitus acta probat