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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
water_n	dram_n	ounce_n	vinegar_n	6,313	5	11.3169	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00695	Erōtomania or A treatise discoursing of the essence, causes, symptomes, prognosticks, and cure of love, or erotique melancholy. Written by Iames Ferrand Dr. of Physick; Traité de l'essence et guérison de l'amour. English	Ferrand, Jacques, médecin.; Chilmead, Edmund, 1610-1654.	1640 (1640)	STC 10829; ESTC S102065	141,472	420

redolent depurat ana 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 iij. iterùm leniter bulliant addendo sacchari electi libss fiat Iulep clarif aromat pulver laetific Rhazis aut laetitiae Galen vel Diamarg frigidi 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 j. ss pro quinque aut sex dosibus And if you thinke it needfull you may reiterate it for two or three daies because that this Melancholy Humour by reason of it's cold dry thick earthy quality as being a Humour very stubborne and rebellious to Nature hath need of great preparation wherein the Physitian must employ himselfe for many daies together that so at length it may bee the more easily wrought upon and evacuated by the Dejectory Medicines which I doe in this case preferre before Vomits being encouraged so to doe by the Authority of Hippocrates who saith that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Melancholy persons doe purge more freely and copiously by siege notwithstanding Arnaldus de Villa Nova holds the contrary But in case the Patient feele any Crudities in his stomack or any kind of bitter tast in his mouth I should then prescribe him a Vomit because that this is a signe that the meat he hath eaten is corrupted in his stomack as both Avicen and Rhasis affirme in the above-named places Now therefore after that the Humour hath been thus prepared we shall begin then to purge it especially if there be any signe of perfect Digestion in the Vrine with this Dejectory Purge 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Prunor. dulc par iij. passul Corinth flor Cordial ana p. j. Tamarind recent select Drach ij fol. senae Orient mundat Drach iij. anisi Agni Casti Cinam interioris ana Drach ss Epith. p. ss fiat decoctio ad 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 iiij in quibus colatis dissol express 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 iiij Rhabarb per noctem in sero caprillo infusi cum sex granis santali rubri Confection Hamech Drach ij Syrup rosati solut 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 j. ss fiat potio detur manè cum regimine artis And on the morrow you shall give him a litle quantity of Conserves of Roses flowre of Borrage or of the root of Buglosse If you intend to give him a Vomit then take an ounce of Radish roots a dram of Agaricke and a dram and a halfe of Asarum then boyle all these together in barley water and taking ten ounces of this Decoction mixe with it two ounces of Mel Scyllitic or Syrup of Vinegar and give it him to drink luke-warme If you should adde hereto flowre of Broome the Vomit would work so much the better But take heed of medling with Hellebor or Antimony because that such kind of Vomitories are very dangerous The Paracelsians doe use to give their Patients in this case a kind of gentle Vomit with sixe or seaven graines of sal vitriol which the party must take either in wine or broath or else Vomitivum Pantagogum and the like as you may see in Rulandus Quercetanus and other writers of that sect After this Purgation you shall then give your Patient some respit for some few daies without giving him any Physick at all and then afterward you shall doe well to reiterate your Alterative Medicines of the Humour Peccant 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 saith Hippocrates For the bad Humour must be purged out by degrees and with intermission that so there may be also in the meane while good Humours engendred and substituted in their place Alwaies observing the rule that the learned Rondelet in his cap. de Amant hath set downe where he warneth all Physitians that they admit not into the number of their Alterative Medicaments of the Melancholy Humour any such as may encrease or generate seed 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as Nonnus calls it such as are Eringo roots Satyrion and diverse others of the like quality For this would be a meanes of adding more strength to the disease and so render it the more incurable And if the Patient be unwilling to take that other before set downe he may then take Diasena or else this Magistrall Syrup here following once or twice a moneth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Rad. Buglos utriusque aspar capar scorzon ana Vnc. j. endiu Cichor buglos borrag acetos lupuli fumar caeterach ana m. j. absynthii Pōt menthae melissae anam ss glycyrrh passul Corinth aqua tepida lotar. ana Drach vj. semin Citri Cardui benedict lactuc. papau albi agni casti ana Drach ij flor trium Cardiac thymi Epithym anap j. polyp querni fol. senae Orient mundat ana Vnc. iiij agaric recent trochisc Vnc. ss caryophil Drach ss storum Nymphaeae anthos ana p. ss fiat decocti● ad lib. ij in quibus dissol express Vnc. ss Rhabar in parte dosis cum pauco Cinamomo infusi sacchari albi q. s misce fia● syrupus perfectè coctus aromat Drach ij puluer laetitiae Galen de quo capiat aeger Vnc. ij bis in Hebdomade cumjusculo pul● li vel aqua cardiaca Franciscus Valleriola added to his Magistrall syrup that he used in the cure of the Merchant of Arles a dram of Hellebor but in this point for my part I dare not follow him Notwitstanding Hippocrates himselfe very frequently used Hellebor in such diseases as this as appeares plainly out of his works And by the use of this Herbe Melampus also is reported to have cured the Love-sick Daughter of King Praetus whence Veratrum or Hellebor is called ever since Melampodium Neither yet dare I adventure to follow the learned Avicen who in this disease prescribes the use of Great Ivy. But if those medicines before set downe be not of strength sufficient for the evacuateing of this rebellious Humour I would then rather give him three or fowre grains or more if need be of Antimony well prepared which is the advice also of all our Moderne Physitians Some other of the Paracelsians use Turpethum Minerale and Ladanum Mercuriale which are not much different Neither doe I much dislike that powder of which Haly Abbas makes so great brags and saies of it thus Posito quòd aliae Medicinae non valeant ista valet nutu Dei misericordis est Medicina coronata quae securissime teneatur ut Intellectus Humanus quasi deperditus cum hâc Medicinâ restauretur This Medicine is of so approved vertue as that when all other faile this alone by Gods assistance will certainly effect the cure of this disease even to the restoring againe of the understanding if perchance by the violence of the disease it hath been decaied and it may very safely be taken and without any danger at all 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Epithym Vnc. ss lapidis lazuli aut securiùs cum Mercato Armeni agaric ana Drach ij scammon Drach j. caryoph No. X. fiat pulvis de quo aeger capiat semel in hebdomade 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ij aut 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉