Selected quad for the lemma: water_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
water_n	ounce_n	powder_n	scruple_n	3,964	5	10.1454	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77458	A Brief relation of the plague at Naples, in the year M.DC.LVI. Where died 10, some days 15, and one day 20000 at least, (some say 25000) and the next day but 500. : With observations, preservatives, and cures. / Translated out of Italian into English.		1665 (1665)	Wing B4629aA; ESTC R173280	3,947	7

the advice of Oribasius to scarifie the calves of the legs in case of great Fevers or Fermentations After purging let them use all possible means to provoke sweat by Diaphoreticks for the which the berries of tree-Ivy powdered and taken in the best wine Carduus water or other are much praised so flowers of Brimstone the weight of two scruples Treakle also or the above-mentioned great Antidote of Matthiolus taking the weight of three or four drams with adding thereto a dram and half of the forenamed Magistral Powder of Padre Gio. Baptista Eremitano in two ounces of Aqua-vitae Good too is the salt of Ash the most cried-up remedy of Frederick vander Mye in the Contagion of Breda which was most like ours to take thereof the weight of twelve Grape-kernels in carduus-Carduus-water 'T is moreover an easie sweat pure Sulphur with Salt boiled in Wine in balneo Mariae or else that of Crollius Let them insist continually in the use of the above-named Anti-dotes increasing the dose not neglecting also to try the use of China Chinae ●●e Jesuites ●●wder the which for many reasons may happen not to be a little helpful and the more that it is in many places the appropriate remedy for these distempers Lastly as to what pertains to the symptoms that is Bubo's or Botches Pustules and Spots you must note that if they come out kindly and with levamen ease and relief in such case leave the work to Nature helping their coming forth with Medicines emollient relaxing and attractive or drawing such as are Frictions dry Cuppings or Scarifyings Vesicatoirs or Blisterings the which if the swellings are below then apply them a few fingers beneath if they be above then apply them in like manner so far above on the arms noting that the said remedy of Vesicatoirs may be changed in boiling Oil with Lime applying them to the same parts marking also that if the said Evil or Plague comes with a Coma that is a sleeping or other symptom in the Animal part then the Bli●●erers shall be placed both on the upper and lower parts Concerning the Bubo's or swellings in the Groin if they bunch out kindly you may cure them with gentle means such as Oil of sweet Almonds Oil of Lilies Butter Hens grease or else with the simple Oil of Scorpions or Ointment of Marsh-mallows with the roots of Lilies beaten in a Mortar But if the Bubo's come not out well then look out more efficacious Remedies applying on the part Cupping-glasses with scarification Leeches Blisters as before this done apply thereon a Poultess of Onions Treackle and Saffron rosted in embers after putting to some Hens-grease or the like If they be to be cut open them half ripe with a cold Iron passing thorow a Stuppe or Lint and cure them with a compound Ointment of Gum Elemi Ammoniacum and Turpentine of each a like quantity with a little Saffron Wax and Oil of Roses as much as will suffice The Carbuncles vulgarly by the Neapolitans call'd Ampolle that is Blains are cured by cutting the part affected scarifying it Good here t● seer and bur● with hot Irons and clapping thereto the same attractive or drawing Plaster or Treakle with Onion or else the Poultess of Scabious Hens-grease and Treakle hindering expresly by all means the Ustion or burning in the beginning as well of the Carbuncles as of the Bubo's that so the part may not be strengthened you must leave these Sores open by the Missaries or Voiders and Emunctories of the body for a long time This is what in brief and privately could be collected for the haste allotted us concerning the Sickness now reigning hereafter there shall a Discourse be of the nature and of the occasions of the same and other Medicines shall be proposed according to the Observations that daily are made NAPLES 2 June 1656. FINIS