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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
water_n	electuary_n	good_a	great_a	60	3	2.1427	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A22844	Certaine statutes especially selected, and commanded by his Maiestie to be carefully put in execution by all iustices, and other officers of the peace throughout the realme with his Maiesties proclamation for further direction for executing the same. Also certaine orders thought meete by his Maiestie and his Priuie Counsell, to bee put in execution, together with sundry good rules, preseruatiues, and medicines against the infection of the plague, set downe by the Colledge of the Physicians vpon his Maiesties speciall command: as also a decree of the Starre-Chamber, concerning buildings and in-mates.; Laws, etc.	England and Wales.; England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I); Royal College of Physicians of London.	1630 (1630)	STC 9342; ESTC S125901	56,831	142

with cloathes two ounces of this Water to drinke and let him be prouoked to sweat and euery sixe houres during the space of twenty foure houres giue him the same quantitie to drinke This Medicine for the worthinesse thereof and because it will stand the maner thereof in little charge it shall be very well done to distill it in Summer when the Walnuts h●ng greene vpon the tree that it may bee ready against the time that occasion serueth to vse it After Infection FOrasmuch as the cause of the Plague standeth rather in poyson then in any putr●faction of humours as other Agues doe the chiefest way is to moue sweatings and to defend the heart by some Cordiall thing Cordials Mithridates Medicine of Figgs TAke of good Figgs and Walnuts of each twenty foure Rue picked two good handfuls Salt halfe an ounce or some what better first stampe your Figgs and walnuts well together in a stone morter then adde your Rue and last of all your Salt mixe them exceedingly well take of this mixture euery morning fasting the weight of sixteen pence to children and weake bodies lesse Or this will be more effectuall TAke twenty Walnuts pill them Figs fifteene Rue a good handful Tormentil roots three drams Iuniper berries two drams Bole-Armoniack a dram a halfe first stampe your roots then your Figs and Seeds then adde your Walnuts then put to your Rue and Bole and with them put thereto sixe drammes of London Treacle and two or three spoonefuls of Wine-vineger mixe them well in a stone morter and take of this euery morning the quantity of a good Nutmeg fasting they that haue cause to goe much abroad may take as much more in the euening two houres before supper For women with child Children and such as cannot take bitter things vse this TAke conserue of Roses Wood-Sorrel of each two ounces conserues of Borrage of Sage-flowers of each sixe drams Bole-armoniake shauings of Harts-horn Sorrell-seeds of each two drams Yellow or White Saunders halfe a dramme Saffron one scruple Sirrop of Wood-sorrell enough to make it a moist electuary mixe them well take so much as a Chesnut at a time once or twice a day as you shall finde cause Take the shauings of Harts-horne Magistery of Pearl Magistery of Coral Tormentil Rootes Zedoarie true Terra Sigillata of each one dramme Citron Pills Yellow White and Red Sanders of each halfe a dramme white Amber Hyacinth-stone prepared of each two scruples Bezoar Stone of the East Vnicornes horne of each foure and twenty graines Citron and Orenge pils canded of each three drammes Lignum Aloes one scruple Amber-grease and Muske of each eight graines white Sugar Candy twice the weight of all the rest mixe them well being made into a dredge powder take the weight of twelue pence at a time euery morning fasting and also in the euening about fiue a clocke or an houre before Supper With these powders and Sugar there may be made Lozenges or Manus Christies and with conuenient conserues they may be made into Electuaries All which and many more for their health they may haue by the aduice and directions of their owne Physicians or at least Physicians wil not bee wanting to direct them as they may haue neede They may also vse Bezoar Water or Treacle Water or Saxonias cold cordiall Water which they may vse simply or they may mixe them also with all their Antidotes as occasion shall require The vse of London Treacle is good both to preserue from the sicknesse as also to cure the sicknesse being taken vpon the first apprehension in a greater quantitie as to a man two drammes but lesse to a weake body or a child in Cardius or Dragon Water Take of the finest cleere Aloes you can buy in colour like to a Liuer and therefore called Hepatica of Cinamom of Myrrhe of each of these the weight of three French Crownes or of two and twenty pence of our money of Cloues Maces Lignum Aloes of Masticke of Bole-Oriental of each of these halfe an ounce mingle them together beat them into a very fine powder of the which take euery morning fasting the weight of a groat of this in White Wine delayed with water and by the grace of God you shall bee safe from the Plague No man which is learned if hee examine the Simples of this Medicine whereof it consisteth and the nature and power of them can deny but that it is a Medicine of great efficacie against the Plague and the Simples whereof it is made are easily to be had in any good Apothecaries shop except Bole-Orientall which is vsed in the stead of true Bolus Armenus Take a dry Figge and open it and put the kernell of a Walnut into the same being cut very small three or foure leaues of Rue commonly called Herbegrace a corne of Salt then roste the Figge and eate it warme fast three or foure houres after it and vse this twice in the weeke Take the powder of Tormentill the weight of sixe pence with Sorrell or Scabious Water in Summer and in Winter with the Water of Valerian or common drinke Or else in one day they may take a little Wormwood and Valerian with a graine of Salt in another day they may take seuen or eight Berries of Iuniper dried and put in powder and taking the same with common drinke or with drinke in which Wormewood and Rue hath beene steeped all night Also the Treacle called Diatessaroum which is made but of foure things of light price easie to be had Also the roote of Enula Campana either taken in powder with drinke or hanged about the brest Likewise a piece of Arras Roote kept in the mouth as men passe in the streets is very good Cordiall Take sixe leaues of Sorrell wash them with Water and Vineger let them lye in the said Water and Vineger a while then eate them fasting and keepe in your mouth and chew now and then either Setwall or the Roote of Angelica or a little Cinamom Medicines Purgatiue IT is good for preuention to keepe the bodie reasonable open especially with such things as are easie of operation and good to resist putrefaction such are these Pils which are vsually to bee had at good Apothecaries and are called Pestilentiall Pilles Take Aloes two ounces Myrrhe and Saffron of each one ounce Ammoniacum halfe an ounce make them vp into a masse with the iuice of Limons or white Wine vineger to keepe the bodie open a small Pill or two will bee enough taken a little before supper or before dinner but to purge the bodie take the weight of a dramme made into fiue or sixe or more Pilles in the morning fasting and that day keepe your chamber If the patient bee costiue and bound in his body let him take a suppositary made with a little boyled Honie and a little fine powder of Salt and so taken in at the Fundament and kept till it mooue a Stoole For the poore take Aloes the