as will lye upon a Groat an hour before the Fit and Sweat plentifully in bed drinking a little Rosemary Marygold or Cardus Posset-drink which being continued four or five times generally takes it off For Fluxes and such Distempers in Women as debilitate their Strength take a Pill in a glass of Sack mull'd with Cinamon -For the Gout and Rheumatisms of the whole Body take a Pill in a glass of Rhenish-wine drinking sometimes of our Aqua-Vitae Magistralis this generally eases at twice taking it divides also clods of Blood and breaks inward Imposthumes carrying off their matter and heals them as also Bruises and Squats For difficulty of making Water the Strangury Stone or Gravel in the Kidnies dissolve 2 Pills the bigness of 2 large grey Peas in a pint of White-wine and sweeten it with 5 or 6 Ounces of Syrup of Marsh-mallows and let it be for 2 draughts with 3 hours Intermission in the most violent pain drinking often a draught of posset-drink wherein is boyled some Pelitory of the wall and a few Gromwel seeds at the discretion of the Patient keeping your self warm in Bed always when it 's taken and so will the Offending matter be carried off For Children within 3 or 4 Years Old you may give the bigness of a Pepper Corn and so it may be increased or diminished in it's Dose according to the Wisdom and Discretion of the Parent Price 12 d. the Box. ☞ Observe Always when you take of this Pill to take some of our Cordial Drops in a glass of Sack or other Cordial Water to refresh the Spirits III. Aqua Bezoratica Our Cordial or Plague Water 1 THis Cordial is good in Sadness Melancholly and Dejection of mind pains of the Spleen reviving the Spirits 2. It powerfully resists Poison Plague Small-Pox and all sorts of malign Fevers it cures the biting of Venomous Beasts 3. It is a good Stomachick Comforts the Head Brain and Bowels it causes a good Appetite taking away Sickness at Heart and Stomach it 's profitable against Swoonings fainting Suffocacations and Fits of the Mother 4. This Water is Sudorifick Alexipharmick and Antifebritick It is also a Cordial Cephalick and a great Restorative and is excellent against cold and moist Diseases It 's Vse and Dose YOu may take from half a Spoonful to ◠Spoonfuls or more in the morning Fasting a little before Dinner and at bed time it may be also taken at any time of the Day or Night upon any Fainting or Sickness at Stomach as occasion requires or in any languishing Conditions It may be taken alone or in case of great weakness in a glass of Canary Price Sixpence the Ounce IV. Panacea Nostri Or Our Prevalent Emetick and Cathartick Pouder THe Virtue and Nature whereof is such that it expells all Contagious and Malignant Humours by the Emunctories viz. by Vomit Stool Sweat and Urine and that after a most friendly and pleasant way few Doses whereof will radically cleanse the Body and Blood from the original cause of old chronick and Hereditary Diseases as the Epilepsie Convulsion Madness Schrophula or the Disease called the King 's Evil Leprosy or any foulness or corruption of the Blood French-Pox and other most grievous Diseases as Ulcers Fistula's Noli me Tangere's and in all kinds of Diseases in Men and Women except Women with Child of what Nature soever they be It 's Vse and Dose FOr any of the aforesaid chronick Diseases let the Body be once or twice well purged with our Sal Lenitium then after 3 Days respite take a Paper of this Pouder in the pulp of an Apple or prune a little fine Sugar or Syrup of Gilly-flowers and if in case at any time this Medicine should not have any visible Operation at all yet never the less it will perform its Office and drive forth the Distemper Now if the Disease be Rebellious it must be continued to be taken every 5th Day and the intermitting 3d Day take a Dose of our Balsamick Pill as 't is prescribed this method doth very well For the Scurvy Pox Gonorrheae and inveterate Ulcers For Agues let it be taken 2 hours before the Fit to cleanse the Body and to perfect the Cure proceed as is directed in the use of the Pill For Fits and Convulsions in Children let it be taken in Breast-milk and not exceeding the weight of a Rape-seed It may be given to New-born Infants but as they increase in strength so may the Dose be somewhat increased at the discretion of the Parent For Children of 3 or 4 Years of Age give the 3d part of a Paper For those of 7 8 or 9 give half a Paper always observing to take Posset-drink freely during the Operation The Paper contains 3 Doses at 2 s. 6 d. V. Elixer Magnum Cordialis Or Our Great and Famous Cordial Drops BEing a wonderful Arcanum whose Virtue and Prevalency hath been powerful in these following Diseases as the Falling-sickness Apoplexy Lethargy Palsey Convulsions and most other Diseases of the Head Brain and Nerves they cure the Vapours in Women and Fits of the Mother they remove Ostructions and pains of Spleen they are also an admirable Remedy in the Plague Spotted-fever Small-pox and Measles or any malignant Fever resisting putrifaction of the Blood which have been confirmed by about 19 Years Experience in our daily Practice c. It 's Vse and Dose TAke as follows from 4 drops to 12 14 20 25 or 30 to 60. in Canary or any other proper Cordial and for the diseases of the Head let it be taken in a Cephalick Cordial and also let the Temples and Nostrils be bathed therewith For Children that are like to have the Small-pox give this Medicine to bring out the Distemper increasing or diminishing the Dose as you see convenient in a glass of Sack hot Mace-ale or some convenient Cordial disposing the party for Sweat drinking often a good draught of hot posset-drink and boyl there in Marygold-flowers a top of Balm Angelica and Rosemary in Surfeits let it be taken in the manner aforesaid observing that the Stomach be first cleansed by often taking of our Aq. vitae Magistralis for Children that are inclined to Rickets or breeding of their Teeth give some drops in a little syr of Cowslips or Poppies In intermitting Fevers give above 60 drops in a glass of Sack or Rhenish Wine In continual Fevers give it every 6 hours in the manner aforesaid always minding to take at the hour of rest a small Dose of our Balsamick pill as also our Pulvis Antefibriticus according to directions in its place In Consumptions and great Weakness take 40 or 50 drops Mornings and Nights in a glass of Canary as also 2 or 3 times a Day for the space of 40 Days together ☞ Observe Women with Child may safely take this Medicine Price four Shillings the Bottle VI. Pulvis Antifebriticus Noster Or our General Febrifuge 1. AN admirable pouder against Fevers of all sorts A few Doses thereof
THE Natures Uses Doses Of Several APPROVED and EXPERIENCED Medicines Faithfully PREPARED By JOHN SPIRE junr. Medicinae Professor To which is Added A CATALOGUE of Various Chymical PREPARATIONS By him always ready Prepared LONDON Printed by Benja Harris Senr. in Great East-cheap for the AUTHOR 1698. TO THE Courteous READER HAving thro' the Blessing of God from whom alone cometh every good and perfect Gift upon my Endeavours obtained thro' much Labour great Study and Experience the Knowledge of several Specifick Medicines or Arcanum's effectual for the Extirpating and Rooting out the Original Causes of Tedious and Chronical Distempers Being Friendly to Nature pacifying the inraged Archeus thereby Conquering the Fury of most Diseases incident to Human Bodies I might have Quoted the Names and Places of divers Persons that have been Cured by these Medicines herein mentioned but shall Desist and leave ev'ry Prudent Experiencer to speak of them as they find only Desiring they would Communicate their Vertues to their Neighbours Being Published for the Necessities of such who many times Languish under the Burden of Diseases for want of true Medicines So to that Eternal Invisible and Incomprehensible Word of GOD by which All Things were Made do I Recommend every One Wishing them Health and Comfort here and Eternal Happiness hereafter and Subscribe my Self Thine in all Real Service J. S. THE Natures Uses Doses Of Several MEDICINES I. Aqua-Vitae Magistralis Or Our Magisterial Water IT is an abstersive Medicine of a powerful Nature cleansing and strengthning the Stomach effectual in opening Obstructions it is Sudorefick and Diuretick 't is very good in Fevers especially in the Putrid in Palsies Epilepsies and the Plague resisting Corruption in Apoplexies Lethargy and Stupification of the Spirits stoppages in the Breast Surfeits Rheumatism Stone and Strangury Chollick Oppression of Wind Loathing of the Food Pleurisies without Blood-letting and for Women with Child and in their Travail as also after they be Delivered This Medicine hath prov'd it self a successful Remedy in many of the afore-said Maladies as many in several parts of England can Testify to their great Satisfaction It 's Vse and Dose THe ordinary Dose to Man or Woman in any of the aforesaid Diseases is generally 2 or 3 Spoonfuls observing for those that cannot bear with the strength thereof they may allay it with 1 or 2 spoonfuls of Balm or Mint Water or white Wine or clean Spring Water in all Distempers that call for speedy relief as Surfeits c. take it 2 or 3 times in an hour for the Stone take it every half hour for 2 hours space then rest 2 or 3 hours and repeat it as before drinking sometimes a little Chamomile posset-drink i. e. the Flowers boyled In Pleurisies take every half hour till Relief be found observing to apply some hot Chamomile fryed or heated being first sprinkled with a little Vinegar to the side taking once in 24 hours a dose of the Balsamick Pill in the method hereafter prescribed For Women when they go with Child take it in the morning and 2 hours after Dinner for a Week together then rest about 4 days and repeat as before in their Travail the pains being slow give 2 spoonfuls 3 times in an hour and for after-pains give it often For Children that are troubled with Wind mix a little of it with Fennel or Spere-mint water sweetned that it may but just tast of it and then give a spoonful as often as need requires In Windiness of the Stomach which causeth Vapours in the Head take 2 or 3 times in a Day In Apoplexies and Lethargies take it frequently and apply a linnen Cloth dipt in the same to the Temples In the Gout pains apply the same mixed with equal quantity of strong Brandy often to the place afflicted and take of it about 4 times in a Day as directed ☞ Observe If in any of the aforesaid Diseases the Medicine provokes Vomiting repeat the Dose immediately and so take it again and again till the last Dose stayes never be Daunted but go on with it always minding to take this Medicine in the beginning of any Sickness in order to disperse the same Price Three Shillings the Pint Bottle II. Pilulae Samech Or The Friendly Balsamick Pill WHose Nature and Virtues are such that it Operates as Nature would have it in order to cleanse the Body from the root of Diseases viz. by Sweat Urine and Stool sometimes by Vomit and other times by insensible Transpiration according as the Occasional Matter wants to be carried off 'T is a most noble Preparation being exalted to the true Intention of Healing For such is it's Property that it first works as an Anodine and allays the inraged Archeus and then carries off the poysonous offending matter by Stool or some other gentle way It totally corrects and destroys the virulency of vegetable Poysons either out or in the Body and being taken as a Corrector shows it's effects For if you are assaulted with the violent working of any Potion vomative or purgative 't will so take it off as to settle Nature in her due Decorum such is the Nature Force and Operation of this Pill as a Corrector It 's Prevalency will be seen in helping Nature to discharge and expel those things that offend her for if you take a Pill drinking a Cup of mull'd Sack after it and sweat in Bed 't will immediately disperse it self thro' the Body fortifying the Fountain of Life and so expels Poyson in any part of the Body 'T is prevalent in most Diseases incident to the body as hath by long Experience been confirmed For by it's Abstersive Nature and Pacative Virtue it pacifies the inraged Archeus and by this means insinuates it self into the languishing Fountain of Life and per orms much to the Patients content and satisfaction especially in Colds Coughs Disenteria or Fluxes of any sort or Gripings in the Bowels Fevers or Agues as the Tertian Quartan and Quotidian Plurifies Calentures Headach the distilling of Humors called Catarrhus which destroyeth the Lungs also in pains of the Brest tremblings of the Heart giving the Blood a Fermentation and cleansing it from Superfluities and therefore prevalent in the Dropsie Anasarca Ascites Timpanites Inflammation of the Reins difficulty of Pissing It bringeth forth the small-Pox and Measles 'T is a very general Remedy curing many Diseases and not hurtful in any c. In pains of the Limbs Scurvy Gout and inveterate Gonorrhaea's and several other Diseases as may be seen by It's Dose and Application FOr any of the afore-named Diseases you must take the bigness of a grey Fea and drink it down with a Glass of mull'd Sack or hot Mace-Ale and being in Bed dispose your self to Sweat This method does very well in the King's-Evil Measles Small-Pox or Swine-Pox to bring the Venomn from the Heart For Agues take a Pill the bigness of a large grey Pea and drink it with 2 Ounces of Cinamon Water and as much Peper
with the use of the other Medicines takes off the Fever beyond Expectation 2. It is something Sudorifick but for the most part works downwards first and afterwards provokes Sweat it is a prevalent remedy against putrid Fevers Measles Small-pox Calenture Spotted-fever and other venemous Diseases 3. It is good against the Green-sickness Dropsie Melancholly Scurvy Jaundice and its profitable in Hectick Fevers 4. It resists Putrifaction fortifies the Stomach corrects Crudities purifies the Blood cleanses the Bowels of filth and viscous Humours by a gentle Purging way The Dose and manner of Vsing it 1. LEt the Patient drink plentifully of our Aq. Vitae Mag. according to the directions in its place give a Dose of pouder in the Morning and at Evening for 8 12 or 16 days as you see occasion more or less you may give it in form of a Bolus in a little Marmalade of Quinces or pulp of Pruens Jelly of Harts-horn or it may be exhibited in a Glass of Canary or a spoonful of Syr. of Saffron or Clove-Gilly flowers VII Aqua Ruba Mineralis IS an excellent Medicine of a preservative Nature of great benefit in the plague and other contagious distempers particularly against the burning thirst in Fevers Good against Coughs Shortness of Breath Ptysick the diseases of Throat and Mouth as Angimas Strumas Inflammations of the Pallate or Uvula of the Mouth Thrush in Children Quinsies and such like Inflammations as also for an unsavory Breath It 's Vse and Dose FOr Thrushes or sore Mouths in sucking Children or any foulness of the Tongue or Throat 2 3 or 4 drops dropped into a little White-wine or plantain-Plantain-water sweetned with a little Honey of Roses and so drink it and wash their Mouthes with the same for People of riper Years they must Gargle their Mouths with it it being composed to a Gargarism with White-wine or plantain-Plantain-water and dulcified with Syrup of Mulberries or Honey of Roses often taking from 6 drops to 40 or 50 in Beer White-wine or Plantain-water For the burning Thirst in Fevers give from 6 drops to 40 or 50 or half a Spoonful in so much Beer or Ale that it may tast sharpish of the Medicine if the Fever be violent it may be given 3 or 4 times in 5 or 6 hours space but in continual Fevers it may be given as often as the party desires to drink observing in such cases to take often to procure Sweat of my Elix Magnum Cordialis and at Night to take a Dose of Vinum vitae to cause rest and expell the venom of the distemper for shortness of Breath the Ptysick and Cough give it in Hysop-water with a little Liquorish and 5 Figs decocted therein for a stinking Breath and to create an Apetite take it Mornings fasting and 2 hours before dinner and an hour before supper about 6 or 8 drops in Beer or Wine Price One Shilling Six-pence the Bottle VIII Potestates Succini Or our Powers of Amber 1. IS a most admirable Remedy against Cold and moist diseases of the Head Brain Nerves and Womb. 2. They Cure Head-achs Lethargies Dulness and Sleepiness and other pituitous distempers of the Brain 3. They are admirable against Cramps and Convulsions 4. They are excellent in Palsies Rheumatisms and Gouts 5. Against Fits of the Mother in Women and takes away pains after their Deliveries cum multis alijs The Dose and manner of Vsing them FOr outward uses bath the place affected very well twice a day till you find Relief inwardly take them from 15 drops to 30 40 or 60 in a Glass of Sack Night and Morning Continue the same for 40 days or more as you see occasion Price one Shilling six-pence an Ounce IX Tinctura Hysterica Or our Hysterick Drops against Fits THese Drops are composed against those called Hysterick Fits viz. Suffocation of the Matrix alias Fits of the Mother for which its a most excellent Remedy as also against the Collick Megrim Falling-sickness palpitation of the Heart Obstructions and Weaknesses of the Head Nerves and Womb It attenuates opens Diseases resists Poyson provokes Urine and the Terms and is profitably given in the Green-sickness in Virgins Rickets in Children The Dose and manner of takng it IN any of the aforesaid diseases you may take it in White or Rhenish-wine or in Shery or Canary or other proper Hysterick Julep give it when the Fits is off and in a Morning fasting and last at Night but when any Fit comes give it in the time of the Fit For young Virgins let them take in White-wine For the Rickets in Children give it in Canary or old Malago Bathing the Joynts and Back-bone with our Vnguentum Rachitidem or Oyntment for the Rickets twice a day before the Fits The Dose is from 20 drops to 30 40 or 60 according to Age and Strength Price three Shillings the Ounce X. Arcanum Chalybeatum Or our Steel Drops WHose Virtues are powerful in removing and carrying off all Obstructions of what kind soever they be which are incident to young Virgins and also a very safe Remedy in the Dropsie provided it be taken with the other It 's Vse and Dose WHich is from 10 or 12 drops to 20 or 30 according to Age and Strength Mornings fasting in a draught of Water-gruel warm Broth or Mace-ale keeping the Body stirring by some moderate Exercise always observing to take every 3d Day a Dose of our Sal. Lenitium let it be continued for the space of forty Days Price Two Shillings Six-pence the Bottle XI Gutta Lythontripticae Or our Stone-Breaking Drops THese Drops are a most incomparable Remedy for the Collick and Stone being an Arcanum fit for the Closet of a Prince or any Noble Man and is herewith made publick for the benefit of those that are afflicted with that deplorable disease of the Stone Strangury Collick and difficulty of Urine The Vse and Dose of these Drops with necessary Observations THe Dose is from 20 to 40 or 50 Drops in a glass of White or Rhenish-wine every four hours and in the time of each four hours drink a Dose of our Aqua Vitae Magistralis as directed in its place and at the hour of Rest take a Dose of our Balsamick Pill as in the directions of the said Pill in its place and by the blessing of God upon this Medicine thou wilt find the Stone to break and dissolve coming away in small pieces and Sand proceed in the same manner for the Collick And I need say no more it being so effectual an Arcanum it will sufficiently demonstrate its own Praise Price Ten Shillings the Ounce Sal. Lenitivum Or A Famous Purging Salt BEing a Salt prepared of Mineral Subjects by apt mediums purify'd and reconciled to the Archeus and thereby becomes a Salutiferous Remedy enobled with Virtues sufficient for the Curing of many Diseases It is neither an Acid nor an Alcaly but a Salt of a midling Nature being able to pass the several Digestions unchanged and in its passage to resolve
and absterge all Preternatural Coagulations for which reason I call it Sal. Lenitivum it is endowed with these 4 general properties viz. Cathartick Dieuretick Deobstruent and allaying of all Preternatural heat and Acrimony besides it is a general easer of pain and extinguisher of Venom as is manifest by what it effects in alleviating the Pains of the Gout Rheumatism Collick griping of the Guts 1st It Purgeth the gross Excrements and most viscous humours of the first passages without nauseating the Stomach or the least Griping Pains 2ly It is singular in opening Obstructions of the Vessels and Viscera It is of great use in Fevers especially those that proceed from Surfeits occasioned by Eating or Drinking It also dissolves all Stagnant and Obstructing matter in the Viscera This Medicine doth not only dissolve and expurge the Excrements of the Stomach and Guts but it also corrects the violence of all Preternatural Purges if you put but two drams of it in their Infusion or drink the same quantity in a draught of warm Ale or Posset-drink after any Potion that will Gripe or Operate Churlishly c. This admirable Salt never leaves the Belly bound as the common Purges do but always Soluble therefore excellent against a Costive temper of Body The 2d intention of this Salt is to alter and open Obstructions in the Liver Spleen Mesentery Pancras Reins Bladder and Womb from which proceed many tedious and stubborn Diseases as the Scurvy Dropsie Jaundice Hypocondriack Melancholly Vapours Green-sickness Rheumatism inveterate Head-Ach Restlesness Sleepiness Vertigo Frenzy Cramps Convulsions internal Inflammations and Aposthumes Piles Exulcerations of the Kidnies and Bladder Gravel stoppage of Vrine c. Together with many others arising from Obstructions and Acrimony of the Blood and Vital Juices This excellent Salt may be taken at all times of the Year and in all places without loss of time or hindrance of business and although it be of great Use and Service in very many Diseases yet I have by experience observed that in some it is Specifically Potent as in the Scurvy Jaundice Dropsie Suffocations Green-sickness stoppage of the Menses Piles Cholick Diarrhaea Bloody-flux Worms Inflammations and Rheums of the Eyes Itch and other Cholerick Eruptions of the Skin heat of Vrine in all which cases it hath signaliz'd it self It 's Vse and Dose FOr any of the aforenamed Diseases to a Man or Woman is from half an Ounce to three quarters of an Ounce a Child of a Year Old one Dram to two Drams and so on according to Discretion of the Parent and Age of the Child always to be dissolved in Spring water plain Posset-drink or thin Water-gruel and in Summer-time in Whey which the Patient fancies best to take it in In the Scurvy it ought to be taken daily or every other day for a Month or six Weeks together taking in all their Drink a pure Spirit of Salt to the quantity of 40 drops in a Day which may be had at my House for 12 d. the Bottle For the Jaundice I give it in Summer in Water or Whey in Winter in warm Gruel or Posset drink 5 or 6 drams while the Jaundice cease observing to take it every other Day in the Dropsie in the same manner as the Jaundice only in a less quantity of the Vehicle continue it for a Months time In the Green-sickness in Maids it is necessary to dissolve an Ounce of the Salt in a Quart of pure spring-Spring-water and to take half a pint every Night and the same quantity early the next Morning continue taking if need be a Month or 5 Weeks In the Piles a quarter of an Ounce of the Salt dissolved in Water or Whey and taken for some time In the Cholick or griping of the Guts take one Quart of Spring-water and boyl therein two Drams of each of the Seeds of Annis Fennil Caraway and Coriander then dissolve therein an Ounce of the Salt and let the Patient drink frequently thereof a small draught that the whole Quant may be drank in a Day if the Party Vomit continue the Dose while the Vomiting ceaseth In a Diarrhaea or common Loosness boyl Wheat-bran in spring-Spring-water and take half an Ounce in the Decoction thereof daily or every other Day according to Strength In a Diassenteria or Bloody-flux give it in a Decoction of red Rose-leaves boyled in Water giving a Clyster daily made with the Broth of a Sheeps-head continue the use till the Party find Relief For Rheums of the Eyes take it daily in the ordinary manner In the Itch Botches Boyls and other Cholerick Eruptions of the Skin give half an Ounce or 5 Drams dissolved in Fumatory-water or Whey for a Fortnight or three Weeks together taking sometimes in their Beer a Spirit of Salt till the Cure be perfected The Price of this Noble SALT is one Shilling the Ounce XIII Vinum Vitae Or Our Anodine Drops BEing a soveraign Medicine against a Diassenteria or Bloody-flux Cholick Gripes Vomiting and Loosness in Young or Old and to procure quiet Rest The Vse and Dose FOr a Man or Woman take always at Bed-time half a spoonful in a draught of Mace-ale or Mul'd wine For Children in the Month from 4 drops to 20 in Brest-milk or Ale as they increase in Age so may the Dose be increased at the Discretion of the Nurse or Parent Price one Shilling the Bottle XIV Essentia Stomachia Or our Stomach Essence IS a great strengthner of the Stomach and expells Wind good against the Cholick Gripes Pains at the Stomach Stitches and Pains in the Side It helps indigestions and cures Surfeits and attracts cold watery Rheums from the Stomach The Dose is from 4 drops to 25 in a glass of Wine or Ale 2 or 3 times a Day as necessity calls for it Price Two Shillings Six-pence the Bottle XV. Spiritus Paragoricus Or Our Bathing Spirit WHich is a safe sure and ready Medicine it may be taken inwardly in Paralitick and Appoplectick Cases but I here chiefly design it for external Uses it being a singular Arcanum in the Erysipelas and Gangrenes it alayeth the Pains of the Gout Cloths being dipt in it and applyed if it be laid to the Pulse at the Wrists its good in ardent Fevers it helpeth strained Limbs Pains and Aches in any part of the Body with benumed Nerves the shrinking of the Sinews and is very good to smell to and Bath the Temples and Fore-head for the Head-ach warming and comforting the parts where there seems to be a decay of Life or want of Nutriment Price Two Shillings Six-pence the Bottle XVI Pul-vis Antivermis Or Our Worm-powder BEing a certain Remedy killing and destroying the cause of all sorts of Worms in the Bodies of Men Women and Children it ought to be taken generally at the New or Full of the Moon in the Morning Fasting it works moderately by Stool you may give it to a Child of a year old a quarter of a Paper for one of 3 years half a