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water_n	half_a	ounce_n	sugar_n	11,884	5	10.8667	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42987	A short treatise shewing the causes and remedies of that general disease spread abroad throughout this nation, commonly termed by many the plague of the guts but it is very probable to bee that sort of flux, called by the name of dysenteria, or red-flux. With some other remarkable remedies for other diseases worthy to bee noted. Published by N.H. of Dorchester, in the county of Dorset for the good of those that desire their health. Try and trust. Try man as the instrument, but trust God as the helper.	N. H.	1658 (1658)	Wing H100A; ESTC R215851	7,379	24

continuance of it was not nor cannot now bee expressed Shee had taken Physick from several Physitians with all the advice that could bee given or means administred unto her yet all was in vain but still grew worse and worse rather than better At the last I my self being brought by the providence of God into the Town where shee dwelt and hearing of it I went unto her and had some conference with her desiring withall to accept of a Drink which I would make for her I having had as I told her much experience of good it had done and likewise to incourage her thereunto I certified her that there could bee no danger in the taking of it seeing they were all ordinary things and that there was nothing Physical whereby to stir the body or to make it any way worse than it was yet shee was loath to venture upon it because shee had tried so many Physitians already and they had done her no good which is a great fault found in many because they have had a disease long and have tried many therefore if any come that should prescribe any other way then what was prescribed before they think it impossible as if one person may not exceed another and may not have knowledge in that disease which another hath not so this Gentlewoman having had is so long thought it impossible to receive any cure and yeelded her selfe for dead being worn away to an Anatomy or Consumption yet by much perswasion I obtained her leave to make it for her and shee promised mee to take it and that night shee drank the first draught but it made such a striving and stirring in her body to get the mastery of the disease that I could not perswade her to drink of it any more yet that ●very draught made a perfect cure and shee recovered Now because the body is over-burthened with Choller Melancholy and Flegm therefore I hold it very useful and necessary that before you take any of the former Remedies for the Flux that you take this purge which is very needful for the expelling of those humors formerly mentioned if so bee that the party bee not too much worn away if so then I could advise you to forbear any such means and onely make use of that drink for them of riper years noted with a star neither is it to bee given unto children for the drinke it selfe will cure it without any such physick A preparative for the purge which I could advise you to take before Take as much Senae finely poudered as will lye on half a crown with the pap of two or three roasted apples well buttered and sweetned with sugar and so mingled altogether with the powder of Senae eat that instead of your supper and drink a little warm broth after if you please a little before you go to bed it will lye in your body all the night and not in the least disturb you of your sleep but towards the morning it will begin to work and it may give you some two or three stools according to the temper of your body it may bee more yet it will not make you sick at all but you may wear a Wastecoat that night or when you finde it beginne to worke let a Wastecoat bee warmed or keep it in your bed all the night that it may be fit for use I would not have you to rise out of your bed about the house untill you have taken the purge or finde that first to move or stir in your body About an houre after the preparative have done working take this purge following in your bed Take of your Diaphenicon give five drams to a woman and fix to a man in a quarter of a pinte of White-wine stirring it about by the fire with your knife untill it bee wholly dissolved and so take it warm lying there till it begin to work I mean for the space of an houre then let your cloaths bee well warmed and rise having before hand a good fire prepared in your Chamber cloath your selfe very hot the hotter the better although you are in a sweating condition all the while the physick is working and fit by the fire or walls up and down in your Chamber till it hath done working and keep out the ayre as much as may bee After every stool you ought to drinke ● draught of broth made of a small neck of Veal which must bee put over the fire before you take the purge that it may bee in readiness putting into your liquor onely a good crust of wheaten bread and a little salt About an hour or more after the purge hath done working take your rest upon your bed being covered hot for the space o● an hour and half for to refresh nature that hath been something wearied In the mean time let this broth be made and provided Take a Chicken and boyl it in fair water with oat-meal groats or great Oat-meal finely beaten in a mortar strain them in a cloath with some of the liquor then put thereto Violet leaves Strawberry leaves the roots of Fennel and Parsly the pith of them being taken out with a little whole Mace Saffron and Nutmeg and one penniworth of Currans boyl half the quantity away and so eat and drink thereof This purge purgeth Flegme Choller and Melancholy very easily and never offends the stomack neither maketh the party sick taking it in this manner after the preparative before mentioned There are certaine cautions to bee observed both for meats and drinks for the space of two or three dayes while you are taking the Physick or the drink 1 Remember that for that time you drink neither Beer or Ale strong or small neither any Wine unless it bee red Wine with a toast in it but let your drink bee water and sugar ordered in this man●er boyl in three pintes of water an ounce of Cynamon broken in peeces for the space of half an hour and then make it a little sweet with loaf Sugar and so drink it as you do your ordinary drink warm 2 Abstain during the same time or longer from Cabbage or pottage made of it and green fruit 3 Abstain from salt meats as also from fresh Eeles and Playse 4 Put in your pottage leaves of Plantane three or four and eat dry meats for the most part as Mutton your Beef moderately salted Rabbets c. And remember that at night when you go to bed the same day in which you have taken the purge you may take a draught of that drink which is appointed for this disease If you are to make use of Glisters it is good to put the juyce of Plantane into them Exitus acta probat