the Distemper where Persons do not take it thus to sweat give it once in six hours for a few days in the Distempers aforesaid and as afore directed For Chronick or Old Distempers give it every Night as afore directed For Children from one Drop to the new-born in some Breast Milk to fifteen twenty or thirty Drops according to their age strength and necessity For Coughs give it in Hysop-Water sweetned well with Sugar-candy Of which Medicine more shall be said in the Applications of the Medicines Cordial Spirit THis Medicine is a great Cordial truly helping and relieving Nature and both inwardly and outwardly administred is of admirable Benefit to poor fainting drooping Spirits and weak Natures and a great Reliever and Comforter of Old Age and mightily prevails against all Bruisings and Squats whether inward or outward dispersing bruised Blood inward or outward and relieves weak withered nummed Members which either come from inward Distempers or outward Accidents its prevalent inward and outward against Pains in the Head and Diseases there Apoplexes Palfies Megrims and against Convulsions It s manner of Taking ☞ In cases of great faintings or extream Pains in the Head or Apoplexes a little may be poured forth in the Palm of ones hand and then rubbing both hands together clap both hands to the Nose that the flavour may ascend up this do often as occasion cals for it in cases of greatest necessity and Quantities Against inward Diseases a Man or a Woman may take half a spoonful in two or three spoonfuls of warm Sack as a Cordial or as a small spoonful in two spoonfuls of hot strong Beer sweetned or Mace-Ale it may be taken two or three times a day as occasion calls for it For Children give it according to their age and strength in Mace-Ale or mix it into a Cordial thus Mix an Ounce of poppy-Poppy-Water with as much cowslip-Cowslip-Water sweeten it with Syrup of Cowslips then put a little Cordial Spirit as it may taste of it and give Children a Pap-spoonful of it two or three times a day or as occasion calls for it against Weakness Faintness and Convulsions Outwardly applied it is of as great use as Inwardly and may be used when Cordials cannot be given so frequently inwardly with great Refreshing and good Success thus Pour forth a Thimbleful into a Spoon and with a fine Cloth wetting it and then apply it to the Nostrils drawing up the flavour This do often in Faintings Pains of the Head and the Distempers before mentioned in application of this Medicine ☞ Note That when the chief of the Spirit is gone from the wet Cloth then rub the Temples for it is of great use to rub the Temples with it and Fore-head and Cords of the Neck Thus doing long together I have found satisfactory admirable Effects against Conuvlsions great Faintings and dyings away Against Rickets in Children weakness and pained benummed Limbs warm a full spoonful in some convenient thing and chafe it in once or twice a day and so do against Bruises and such like putting on a fine Cloth double wet in the Medicine on the part bruised especially if it be in any part of the Head Use it thus repeating the Use of it twice a day if occasion require it Aqua Rubra IS a Preservative Medicine and is of great Use against Feavers as well Hectick as others its good against all Coughs and Ptysicks helps the Stomach and stirs up Appetite to Food very helpful against sore Mouthes in Children and that Distemper called the Thrush in Children and against the Quincy all sore Throats for it takes away Inflamations Its Quantities and Manner of Taking In intermitting Feavers or Agues and Feavers when the Feaver and Thirst comes on give of this Medicine from four Drops to forty or half a Spoonful in as much Beer as the Medicine may only taste a little sharpish in If the Drieth be great and Feaver burning very much it may be given every Hour or half Hour for three times against continued Feavers two or three times a day against Hectick Feavers an Hour before Dinner and at five in the Afternoon against Coughs and Ptysick give it mixed in Hysop Water in which Liquorish hath been infused and sweetned with Sugar candy A Plaister for Worms Mix. powder of Allows Joyce of Rue Wormwood together boyl them to a Plaister and spread on a few drops of Balsom of Sulpar secure the Navil with Cotten These directions for Worms may be of service to Thousands if carefully made use of against Worms give it fasting in Wormwood-Beer seven Mornings together and after give some Milk and Honey mixt in which is a little fine Powder of Rubarb to bring away the Worms dead or alive The Applications of the Medicines And first against the Plague Agues Feavers of all sorts Small-Pox and Measels Gripes Plurisies and such like Distempers that seize suddainly many times on People When Persons are first taken give of Spiritus Mundus following of it close as it is directed before concerning the Spiritus Mundus in particular and then give the Spiritus Sedativus c. 3 for Agues every night 4 hours and 1 hour before the Fit ☞ These Medicines work variously for sometimes 't will gently vomit Otherwise if Persons vomit much it will effectually stop vomiting And so sometimes they will sweat much sometimes little either to sweat or every six Hours as is before directed minding that if the Spiritus Mundus make sick in Stomach or War there and so cause Puking or Vomiting stop not its motion but take it again and again until it pass clear Now where Nature inclines to cast off the Offending Matter by Sweat there the Medicines will mightily assist and work that way and sometimes very much by Urine opening and making way through the Vessels warming and comforting which the Patient will sensibly feel if Fainty then use the Cordial Spirit as afore directed use it much to smell to taking up the Flavour in Faintings or Weakness in any of those or such like Distempers as in the Direction of Cordial Spirit before Against Drieth in Feavers and Burnings take the Aqua Rubra in Beer as is afore directed If Costive use opening Meats as Water Grewel and such like If Patients want Rest mix the Spiritus Mundus with Poppy Water and give it two or three times in a Night two Spoonfuls at a time sweetned a little as afore directed For Purifying the Blood ☞ After ten days respit the Mundus should be taken again in the same manner and then rest again so continue as occasion call for minding and to forbear it at Nights when the Sedativus is to be given Curing the Scurvey Jaundice Dropsies opening Obstructions and such like Distempers Take of the Spiritus Mundus mixed with Sassafrass Water sweetned a little with Sugar three times in a Morning two Spoonfulls at a time staying a little time between and two Spoonfuls an
Hour before Dinner and at five in the Afternoon and going to Bed as afore directed This do for ten dayes Then take of the Sedativus c. mentioned before forty or fifty Drops as afore directed in a full Spoonful of Sack or Cordial Water or in want of it in hot strong Beer sweetned This do for forty Nights If any Faintiness attend use the Cordial Spirit as afore directed if any Feaver the Aqua Rubra Against Consumptions Take the Spiritus Mundus mixed with good Saffafras Water sweetned with Sugar-candy twice in a Morning in Bed two Spoonfulls a time lying an Hour or two after it so do forty dayes taking thirty Drops of Spiritus Sedativus in a Spoonful of Syrup of Hysop or in Mace-Ale every Night for forty Nights Use the Cordial Spirit as afore directed and the Aqua Rubra before Dinner and if Hectick at five in the afternoon as directed If the Patient waste in Flesh I advise to Asses Milk and in want of that Cows Milk one and the same Cows Milk every morning the first or last milking quantity which agrees best milk it into a sprig of Spire Mint and a sprig of Rosemary To make Syrup against Consumptions take of double distilled Hysop-Water Sack of each a Pint tops of Maiden Hysop and Thime half a handful of both three tops of Horehound one ounce of Liquorish thin sliced Infuse these things in a close covered Pipkin 24 hours then strain it out to the Liquor add two pound of Sugar-candy in Powder let it infuse again 12 hours in a close covered thing then it s done one or both sweetned with a little Sugar of Roses or Pearl Sugar The Syrup directed in the Margent is proper to take Sedativus c. in as directed thirty or forty drops in a spoonful and is good to take the Aqua Rubra in or Cordial Spirit and with any of these is good against Coughs and Ptysicks and stoppings of the Breast and against shortness of Breath Against the Gout Stone and Sciatica and Pains in the Limbs and Aches Take the Spiritus Mundus Sedativus and Cordial Spirit as directed afore minding in the Fits to anoint the pained places with strong Spiritus Mundus chasing it in with a warm Hand and apply strong Yeast alias Barme spread like a Plaister on Colwort Leaves anointing with Spiritus Mundus and changing the Colwort Leaves as occasion requires Give the Spiritus Mundus every half hour in the Fits of the Stone and Chollick or stoppings of Urine as afore directed minding to drink good store of Camomile Posset sweetned with Syrup of Althea and for Pains in the Limbs take the Sedativus c. to Sweat with the Possets ordered as aforesaid in the Directions for the Use of the Sedativus c. and for weak Limbs use the Cordial Spirit as directed before in the Directions for taking Cordial Spirit Thus I have given Plain and Candid Directions for the Vse of these truly safe and efficacious Medicines If it please Physitians to make use of them throughly in their Practice they will see the Comfortable Effects thereof to their great satisfaction So having done my Duty to Benefit many with my Experience I commit it under the Provident Hand of the Almighty to bring forth those Commendable Fruits with Encrease which they have done in many places and will I am satisfied abundantly as they are known and experienced c. To be Sold at the places following These Medicines are to be had at the Authors House at Tetherton near Chippenham And at Nathaniel Harrises Apothecary in Chippenham in Wiltshire c. Charles Jones elder in Ratliff-street in Bristol John Ware in Castle-green-street near Newgate in Bristol Mary Timbril in Cirencester Nathaniel Ocburne of Sadbury Jonathan Johnson at Haverill in Suffolk Robert Silvester of Nailsworth Mercer in Glocestershire John Cox in Glocester John Hubbard Grocer in Stoak near Lyn in Norfolk And the Widdow Shewell in Colchester And divers others in the Countries may be put in by the Disposers themselves And at London By John Staploe Grocer at the Harrow in Aldersgate-street Richard Whitpane at the Horse-shoe in little East-Cheap William Wiggins at the Anchor in Martins le Grand Who have Quantities of them to dispose off to all others that fell them in City or Country Samuel Streeten at the Rose in Watlin-street Ewen Wynn at the 3 half Moons in Newgate-street Edward Blake next door to the black Boy and white-Horse near Smithfield Barrs John Stringfello at the Unicorn in Long-Lane Anne Wrenn in Vine Court without Bishops-Gate Magaret Drinkwell over against Whitegate-Ally in Bishops-Gate-street Andrew Sowle in Devonshire-Buildings Thomas Webb at the Fox in Bishops-Gate-street Thomas Cox at the White Lyon in White-Chappel John Forgison at the Cheese-Fat in White-Chappel Thomas Lee at the three half Moons on Little Tower-Hill Matthias Jones at the Lamp in Fanchurch street Benjamin Clark in George Yard in Lumbard street John Bringhurst at the Book in Grace Church street Robert Bridgman at the Golden Lyon in Leaden Hall street Sarah Huxly in School-house Lane Ratcliff Peter Boss at Reddref Church-Stairs Gabriel Harwood Cheesemonger at Horse-lie-down Samuel Martin Cheesemonger at the Horseshoe over Stone-bridge in Bemondsey-street Henry Jefferson over against Gleane-Ally in Tooly-street Thomas Spire at the Park in Southwark William Clark in James's Market near Charing-Cross And Francis Stampher Clock-Maker living
A Plain and Candid Account of the Natures Vses and Quantities of some Experienced MEDICINES Published to the Intent the Afflicted with Sickness may have the Benefit of them Truly Prepared by Charles Marshall READER COnsidering the Variety of Medicines published of late Years with the strange Commendation of them together with the Observations thereon it was ready to deter me from publishing this But seeing the daily Cures and the frequent Accounts from several places not only in this Nation but also from parts beyond the Seas I was perswaded and importuned to publish this the Fruit of great Labour Expence and many Years Experience desiring all Persons that read this or make use of these Medicines to be both careful and considerate in both and the Weak Pained Fainty Wearied labouring under Diseases will reap the Comfort thereof To publish those considerable Cures these Medicines have effected through the Blessing of the Lord I have no willingness nor to write much in their Praise knowing the patient prudent Experiencer will have cause to speak enough of them Spiritus Mundus IS an Astersive Medicine powerfully cleansing the Stomach and effectually opening Obstructions of the Liver and Spleen and Miserick Veins and prevalent against Plague Surfeits For it greatly helps Women in both conditions and it is safe given when with child Feavers of all sorts Plurisies without Blood-letting Dropsies Jaudice Illiack Passion and Chollick It hath been very helpful to many in the Stone and Strangury is of great use to Women in Travail and also after they are delivered In a word against Diseases and in assisting Nature this Medicine is Efficacious ☞ The Manner of Vsing and Quantities of this true Medicine Mix an Ounce ☞ If the Stomach be sick after taking the Spiritus Mundus be not discouraged for it is then working on the offending matters and generally quickly goes off if it cause a Puking or Vomiting take it again presently and if it do so again take it again again and in a little time it will get thorow the offending matter pass through the small Vessels cleansing comforting which is about two spoonfuls in half a Pint 3 parts of a Pint or a Pint of Sassafrass Balm Angellico Burrage Black-Cherry Water or in want of any of these in pure fresh Rain Water or good Spring Water sweetned first with the best White Sugar and being mixt thus a Man or Woman may take at a time two or three spoonfuls carefully Noting these two general Rules ☞ First That every one may mix it stronger or smaller as they can take it and as necessity calls for it Secondly That the more distilled Water is mixed with it the more should when mixed be taken at a time Noting That in Surfeits of all sorts Gripes Plurisies the beginnings of Feavers Stone and Gout and such Distempers that call for Immediate Relief it should be mixed pretty strong and taken often viz. Every half Hour or oftner for an Hour or two or three Hours together and then staying three or four hours take it so again and so do for some time until the Distemper be in good Measure conquered and after take it as in old Distempers which is two or three times in a Morning early in one hours time or less and then lie an hour or two after it and sleep if the Patient can and again an hour before Dinner and at five in the Afternoon Note For Children it must be mixed according to their Strength and Age ☞ Note That in the times of resting 3 or 4 hours between the taking the Spiritus Mundus any convenient cordial Posset or clean Food eafie of Digestion may be taken It encreaseth Appetite to Food and helps Digestion and as one can get them take it For Babes in the first Moneth against Convulsion Fits mix it in Black-Cherry-Water sweetned so as it only just taste of the Medicine and give a Pap spoonful pretty often as occasion requires Against Wind mix it with on part Spire-Mint-Water and another part Sassafrage-Water Noting That if Persons want Rest mix it with one part Poppy-Water and another Sassafrass or any other Water mentioned as above directed and give it several times in the Night to cause sweet Rest which often it performs and thereby gives great and strong Relief to weak and afflicted People ☞ Sassafrass-Water is the most general Water I mix the Spiritus Mundus in made thus Take six or eight Ounces of good Sassafrass-Wood with the Rhine on thinly chipped put it with a Gallon of rain-Rain-Water or in want thereof any other good Water and distill off five Pints if it be twice distilled it is the better Spiritus Sedativus and Vnited Spirit in one intire Medicine THis is a Balsomick Medicine resisting Putrifaction Women with child may take this Medicine safely not exceeding forty drops in a day and strengthning the Stomach and Nature in general purifies the Blood after taking the Spiritus Mundus is helpful against those Distempers before-mentioned and is very Efficacious in the Plague Sported-Feaver Small-Pox and Measels prevailing against the Malignancy of all such Distempers effectual against Coughs Consumptions and Weakness c. This Medicine is both a Restorative and a Preservative taken after the use of the Spiritus Mundus It s manner of Taking and Quantities If there be occasion of Sweating as before an Ague With this Medicine add but a little Clothes more than at another time on the Bed or one taking Cold or great Pain in their Limbs or on any occasion where Sweating is needful and relieving give unto a Man or Woman forty Drops or half a small Spoonful in a full Spoonful of hot Sack or Cordial-Water or in want thereof in hot strong-Beer sweetned or Mace-Ale and let the Patient lie still with their Hands on their Stomach patiently expect the coming forth of the Sweat if the Patient be not relieved Sweat doth not come as expected in one Hour ☞ The Sack or Mace-Ale being hot put in the Drops immediately give it for otherwise much of the Medicines will be lost And take care to keep both this and Spiritus Mundus Cordial Spirit and Aqua Rubra close stopped give the same quantity again especially in the Plague Spotted-Feaver or Small-Pox or any Malignant Feaver or great Oppressor on the Heart c. And after one hour give some Posset wherein is boyled Cardus Marigold-flowers Angellico or Marjorem or Winter-Savory and Balm minding that any of these Herbs being boyled in Posset let the Vessel be close covered let the length of the time of Sweating be proportioned to the strength of the Patient and the necessity Noting That some Persons as I have seen the longer they have sweat the better able to bear it and have found themselves stronger and stronger in the time of such sweating they may often smell to the Cordial Spirit which will not only keep up their Spirits but helps nature against