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	sugar_n	syrup_n	5,858	5	11.4323	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42154	A-la-mode phlebotomy no good fashion, or, The copy of a letter to Dr. Hungerford complaining of and instancing in the phantastick behaviour and unfair dealing of some London physitians when they come to be consulted withal about sick persons living at a distance from them in the country : whereupon a fit occasion is taken to discourse of the profuse way of blood-letting formerly unheard of, though now adays so mightily in request amongst vs here in England / by Richard Griffith ...	Griffith, Richard, 1635?-1691.	1681 (1681)	Wing G2019; ESTC R39483	104,930	229

in the very same places where they had received their harm which can be admitted of no otherwise than by way of Lambative only and so long as Pectoral Drinks are so taken I have nothing at all to object against the free use of them But because I find the custom but now reprehended so constantly put in practice and that not only by the common rout of ordinary People but also such as would willingly be thought to be of abilties to render a reason for what they do I have chosen to insist the longer upon this tedious though I hope not altogether unprofitable digression which being at an end I proceed to go on where I left off before only craving leave before I do so to acquit my self from an Obligation I lye under of giving a brief account of the Medicament I desired might be taken in Lieu of the other together with the manner of its preparation which was no other in short but this To take some few Cloves of Garlick and infuse them for a convenient time in a sufficient quantity of fountain-Fountain-water made scalding hot and so to be boiled up with a due proportion of Sugar to the consistencie of a Syrop This I knew to be of efficacie for the opening of her Pipes and the exonerating them of that burthen they seemed at present so much oppressed withall and which could be hurtful to none who did not afterwards catch cold upon it which inconveniencie I looked upon her to be sufficiently secured from as being under an indispensable Necessitie of keeping within her Chamber and then by reason of her aversness to meddle with any thing with the composition whereof she had not before hand been made acquainted I both prescribed the way of making and applying it at large Leaving her to the conduct of her self and attendants some few general directions excepted For now there began to be a seeming abatement of her first illness and we were all willing to conceive hopes at leastwise of a farther amendment suddenly to follow after That Physician who shews himself over-prodigal of his Visits amongst the more fickle sort of his Patients shall quickly give them a Surfeit of his company and therefore it may do well some times and upon some considerations to withdraw for a little time though perchance upon others of lesser moment a longer continuance amongst them might not have been altogether improper Whereupon the Friday following which was some two or three days after I was again sent for upon a fresh Summons The Nature of her Distemper being now much altered from what it was before and disconverting it self apparently in the form of a down-right Ague she had been held for some two hours space together with a shivering all over which afterwards concluded in a burning fiery Fit at the time of my arrival there I perceived her to be both hot and feaverish and her Pulse never so till then exceeding quick and high The Result I came to upon the present exigency was This that an intermitting Feaver was by no means to be tampered with all till the Paroxysm were over How that Nature was then busie about her own work which none could do for her especially at that juncture of time so well as she her self and therefore not to be diverted but the safest way I knew and the most likely to help on with the same design with hers was by a plentiful drinking down of a decoction of Cardumus Benedictus that thereby the febrile matter would in probabilitie be somewhat diminished by Sweat and Urine The Fermentation in her Bloud and heat within her Bowells come to be the better qualified and her Body by reason of a Specifick Virtue peculiarly incident to that Plant rendered so much the less disposed for a second Invasion at another time Adding withall that the next Morning when the present commo●ion was at an end I should adventure to give a purgative Potion which might gently evacuate her Stomack where the Fomes of the Distemper was as I conceived principally contained and this I was the more inclinable to do in regard I foresaw what inconvenience was like to befall one in her weak condition in case any more such accessions as that should not have been seasonably prevented I have not forgotten what I was suggesting e're while my great fearfulness of Purging her at the beginning of her Illness as being unwilling to offer any occasion of drawing any of those Humours more inwardly which might happen to lurk near her Stomack and the Regions thereabouts and could very well have been content to have been of that opinion still had Circumstances remained the same they were But Necessity as it is always to be obeyed in the first place so is it capable of neither Consultation nor Advice but is evermore determined to one and the same thing Whereupon the next morning I gave her the common Oxford Infusion much in use I remember what time I was a Student there and which I have had frequent experience of for many years since some gentle Syrups only superadded thereto which wrought very kindly and moderately with her And from that time forward she never complained of her Aguish Distemper more Her Body continued soluble for some competent time after it In order to the resettlement whereof she had a Bolus appointed her to be taken hora somni ex Conserv Rosar Rubrar Flor. Ror-marin an q s cum Dioscordii semi-dragm sp C. C. gut 5. una commixtis which also was repeated in the same proportion the Night immediately succeeding that and had an Effect answerable to what might reasonably be expected from it Die Dominic the Pains of her Head were pretty well asswaged but apt to recur still at times And now over and above she began to be seized on with a kind of Lethargick Drowsiness so as to be much more heavy to sleep than at any other times of her former Illness Wherefore fearing a settlement of Humours upon the Nervous Parts of her Head and in order to the preventing any such Accident that might possibly have so fallen out I forthwith caused an Epispastick Plaister to be laid to her Neck as also to each of her Ankles and Wrists She complained very much of a burning heat about her Throat and the parts adjoyning thereunto for the mitigation of which she had a Gangarism prepared of Barly-water q. s in which the Leaves of Bramble Cinquefoil Columbines and Red Roses had been boiled sweetned with Syrop of Mulberries to her tast and rendered gratefully sharp with two or three drops of Spirit of Vitriol She was inclinable to vomit as has been noted heretofore and for the redressing of that had a quick and lively Cordial constantly in a readiness Mithridat un Drach superaddit ad moderatam dulcedin●m redact Syrup Caryoph Rosar Rubrar an q. s and a Julip of a sharp and delightsom tast to refresh and comfort her so oft as she was disposed to call for