Selected quad for the lemma: water_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
water_n	drink_v	ounce_n	syrup_n	3,269	5	11.2835	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47273	Medela pestilentiae wherein is contained several theological queries concerning the plague, with approved antidotes, signes and symptoms : also an exact method for curing that epidemicial distemper, humbly presented to the Right Honourable and Right Worshipful the lord mayor and sheriffs of the city of London.	Kephale, Richard.	1665 (1665)	Wing K330; ESTC R26148	48,416	100

drink wherein hath been infused the fore-named herbs Or One day you may take a little Worm-wood and Valerian with a grain of Salt Another you may take seven or eight berries of Juniper dryed and powdered with common drink or with drink wherein Worm-wood and Rue hath been steeped all night Or Take the Treacle called Diatessarum of light price easie to be had Or The Root of Ennula Campana taken in powder with drink Or A piece of Arras root kept in the mouth as men passe the streets Or Take six leaves of Sorrel wash them with water and Vinegar letting them lye in the said water and Vinegar a while then eat them fasting and keep in your mouth and chew now and then either Set-wall or the root of Angelica or a little Cinnamon or four grains of Myrrhe or so much of Rattle-snake root Of Medicines purgative It is good for prevention to keep the body open especially with such things as are easie of operation and good to resist putrefaction as Pestilential Pills c. Take Alloes two ounces Myrrhe and Saffron of each an ounce Ammoniacum half a ounce make them up into a mash with the juyce of Lemmons or White-wine Vinegar to keep the body open a small pill or two will be enough taken before Supper or before Dinner But to purge the body take the weight of a dram made into five or six or more Pills in the morning fasting and that day keep your Chamber If you bee costive and bound in body you may take a Glister made with a little boyled hony and a little fine powder of salt and so taken in at the fundament and kept till it move a stoole Or If you are poor take Aloes the weight of six pence put in the pap of an Apple and if able to buy them pills of Ruffus to bee had in every shop Such as are tyed to necessary attendance on the Infected as also such as live in visited houses shall do well to cause Issues to bee made in their left Arms or right Legs or both Blood Letting If the Patient bee full of blood and strong let him bee let blood upon the Liver Vein in the right arme or in the Median Veine of the said arm but bleeding and purging must bee used the first day the Patient is sick both to be forborn in case any sores or spots appear Vomits To provoke a Vomit take two ounces of zant oyle or Wal-nut-oyle a spoonful of the juyce of Celandine and half a spoonful of the juyce of Radish-roots or two spoonfuls of Oxymel of Squills with posset drink and oyle Expulsive Medicines The Plague is best expelled by sweating caused by posset-Ale made with Fennel and Marigolds in Winter and with Sorrel Bugloss and Borrage in Summer with which at both times London Treacle to the weight of two drams must bee mixed and so lay themselves with all quietness to sweat one half hour or an hour if they be strong For the cure of the Infected upon the first apprehension Bur-seeds Cucheneely powder of Harts-horn Citron-seeds one or more of them with a few grains of Camphire are good to bee given in Cardus or Dragon Water or with some Treacle Water Or Take Bur-seeds and Cucheneely of each half a dram or to a weak body of each one scruple Camphire five grains mixe these with two ounces of Cardus or Dragon water half an ounce of Treacle water sirrop of wood-sorrel a spoonful mixe these give it to the Patient warme cover him to sweat you may give him a second draught after twelve houres let him drink no cold drink this posset drink or the like will bee good to give the Visited liberally Or Take wood-sorrel half a handful Marigold flowers half so much shavings of Harts-horn three drams a Fig or two sliced boil them well in clear posset drink let them drink thereof freely you may put thereto a little Sugar Or Take Citron-seeds six or eight shavings of Harts-hornes halfe a dram London Treacle a dram mixe them with two ounces of Cardus water or with three ounces of the prescribed posset-drinke drinke it warme and so lie to sweat Or Take sorrel-Sorrel-water five or sixe spoonfuls Treacle water a spoonful London Treacle a dram and a half mixe them well give it warme and so lay the patient to sweat Or Take Tormentil and Celandine-roots of each four ounces Scabious and Rue of each a handful and a half London Treacle a dram and a half Bole-Armoniack half a scruple put thereto a little Sugar mix them well let the party drink it warm and cover him to sweat In Summer Take the juyce of Wood-sorrel two ounces the juyce of Lemmons an ounce Diascordium a dram Cinnamon six grains Vinegar half an ounce give it warme and lay the Patient to sweat in case of fluxes of the belly or want of rest Or Take an Egge and make an hole in the top of it take out the white and yolk fill the shell with the weight of two French Crowns of Saffron roast the said Egge thus filled with Saffron under the embers until the shell waxe yellow then take it from the fire and beat the shell and Saffron in a Morter with half a spoonful of Mustard-seed Take of this powder a French Crown weight and as soon as you suspect your self Infected dissolve it into ten spoonfuls of posset Ale and drink it Luke-warm then go to bed and provoke your self to sweating Or Take one dram of the Electuarium de Ovo Or Take five or six handful of Sorrel that groweth in the field or a greater quantity according as you will distill more or lesse of the water thereof and let it lye steeped in good Vinegar four and twenty hours then take it off and dry it with a Linnen cloath and put it into a Limbeck and distill the water thereof and as soon as you finde your self touched with the sickness drink four spoonfuls of the said water with a little Sugar and if you bee able walk upon it till you sweat if not keep your bed and being well covered provoke your self to sweating Or Take of the Root Butter-burre otherwise called Pestilent-wort one ounce of the Root of great Valerian a quarter of an ounce of Sorrel an handful boil all these in a quart of water to a pinte then strain it and put thereto two spoonfuls of Vinegar two ounces of good Sugar boyl all these together till they be well mingled Let the Infected drink of this so hot as hee may suffer it a good draught and if hee chance to cast it up again let him take the same quantity streight way upon it and provoke himself to sweat Or Take Sugar of Roses four ounces Ginger two ounces Camphire an ounce make these into fine powder kept in Butts with Wine taking a dram at a time Or Take of the powder of good Bayberries the husk taken away from them before they be dryed a spoonful Let the Patient drink this well mingled in