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Show Of a Confirmption, and its Cure. Book II_ cines prepared with Sulphur, are added to them; Whid‘ are to be fFCfly ultd ifa Heétielt Fever be abfent. Deeoétions alfo made With roots of China, Sarza-parilla prepared with "7,, Ground-IVY, Maidenhait, Raiibns of the Sun, car. may be freely taken for i" a common Drinks in Tabide Bodies. . . . Thirdly, The Fir-It Indication in the beginning ofa Confumption maybe InthehtginniogoFuCon» fatisfied by leilening thc exuberant fiiperfluitics of the Blood by Bleeding, fife-gun. gentle Purgatives and Diureticks, warm Baths, Fontanels, Bliflcring Plaiflers, 32:13.35" Shaving of the Head, Cephalick Plaif'ters, gentle Sternutatories, and Me- fight" dicines evacuating fetous Recrements out of the Oral Glands, by the Excre- toty Ducts of the Mouth and Tongue. The Second Indication in the rife ofa Confumption, is farisfied by Me. dicines afiifling Expeétoration, which difcharge by coughing, the grofs fifffiugtlnéd rgiiirz'iiirah 3.4"..‘2‘52221222 1,",fgifil‘3m. to a due confidence, Pills may be formed of Powder of Liquorice, Red Rofes, Gum Arabiclt, Tragacanth, Olilnmum, With Balfome of Toln, @em, (76. Die t-driuks made of China, Sarza-parilla, and fume Ligimm Sanéimn (if there be no Heéticlt Fever) Saunders, (havings of Ivory, and Harts. Horn, Raifons of the Sun, let them be infuléd, and boiled according to Art, and (trained, and a little fweetned with/Sugar-Candy. Balfome waters may be made with Turpentine, diIToIved with OiI ofTarA tar, Roots of Iris, Enula-Campane, the Leaves of Ground-Ivy, Hyfop, Blood, lodged in the Bronchia, and ad}acent Cells: upon this account Medicines taken into the Mouth, may dil'til down the {ides of the Wind-pipe White Horehound, difiilled in Belize!) Marix, with Coltsfoot-water and Ma1(1ng Sack, which may be taken in a few fpoonfuls, with any pectoral Deco- and impart their opening, inciding, and detergent Particles to the grofs Phlegme, and do open, incide and relaxe their grofs clammy Body, and render them fitfor Excretion -, and by irritating the nervous and fleIhy Fibres 0f the Air-veflels, do procure the expulfion of Recrements, fetled in the {pun- étion, or Syrup onyfop, or Ground-Ivy. viftitchEn- ' As to the Firli Indication in the beginning ofa Confiimption, fetched "WWW" from Acide Recrements, apt to corrode the Bronchia and Sinus, in which they are lodged: Tef'taceous Powders may be given, confil'ting of Pearl, Egg-(hells, Crabs Claws, or Eies, Coral, (we. drinking after every Dole, a draught ofMilk-water, made of Ground-Ivy, Hyfop, Pine and Firr, Nutmegs, (91‘. fwcetened with Sugar-Candy, which do take off the Acidity of the vital Liquor. Drops of tincture of Sulphur, and Oil, and Milk of Sulphur may be ufed often in a draught of a pectoral Decoétion, which do cotintei'matid the acide laline parts of the Blood. In relation to the crude Chyme or Phlegme, diflilling into the Cavities 3:153:33", of the Air-pipes and Cells; all forts of Oxymels may be given, either by aigigiasliounigl themfelves, or mixed with Syrup of Hyfop, Horchound, Ground-Ivy, prei " pared with fome few grains of Guni-Anunoniack. Peétoral Decoetions are good,made of fome of the Five opening Roots, oi Enrila-(ampunc, {havings ofIvory, the I eaves of Ground-Ivy, Hyf‘op, évc. firained and fiveetened with Syrup of Maiden~hair, Hyfop, or Sugar-Candy. Medicines made oi Garlick, either by Decoétion, or in Syrup, or Condited, . mixed with other. mild Peétorals, are very . ' b ene He1a 1 to h e 1 p Exp 5&0ration, if a Confiimption be not attended with a HOW, or Heé‘tick Fever, which doth Indicate cooling Einullions, (ave. made with the cooling Seeds, and Almonds, fweetcned With Sugar-Candy; as alfo Milk~waters, made with temperate Peétorals, to which may be added in afmall quantity, Ma' {115333 of FIOWerofBrimfione, penidiate Sugar, juyee of Liquorice diluted with Snail water. Tablets may be made of Powders ofPrunel, Flowers of Red Roles, Floweroi Briml'tone, Ladies-mantle into Tablets, with diffolved Sugar, boiled Chyme, commonly called Phlegme, and acide watry fiipetfluities of the }jfyf‘";-aarmf gy Compage of the Lungs. Orymels are Of a Coirfltmption and it; Cure. GrOUnd IVY, . Trochifces may be prepared with Powder of Bugles, Sanicle, Book II. giitral Snail-water, mingled with prepared Pearl, and Sugar-Cami . The Third Indication in a Confumption may be fatisfied with cleanfinga i.fi:'?.i":2‘1.~‘1"' grying,land confolidating Medrcmes, as vulnerary Decoé‘tions prepared With F"? gum deétora s , As aito Conlerve of Rofes, 'Flower oFBrimPtone, and fame {6}" 21:52033%,]. tops of the mofl pure 01] of Turpentine, made Into an Eleétuary ofa Elli" tingMcdi- confifience, 'With Honey of Rofes (trained, and Syrup of dried Rofes. In this cafe Conferve of Rofes, Powder of Fox Lungs, mixed with fome few drops of Tincture o'f Sulphur, and Syrup of Iujube may be advifiid with good 'fiiccefs. ' Sutiiimigations may be alfo adminiltted in the beginning of a Confutnprion, by reafon the Fumes are received into the Lungs with the Air, to dry, open, fltengthen, and preferve them from putrefaétion; And to this effect, take the Leaves of Hyfop, Ground-Ivy, Sanicle, Bugles, EnulaCampane, Red Rofes, Red Saunders, and boil them in Water, and receive them into the Mouth by a Funnel. And dry Suff‘umigations, made of Ballamicks (and fometimes of fulphu- teous Medicines) as Olilmnum, Benioin, White Amber, Gum-Guaicnm, Flowers of Red Rofes, Red Saunders, Balfom of Tolu: As alfo of Gum of Ivy, Mal'tick, Frankincenfe, Flower of Brimf'cone, the Leaves of Sanicle, Ladies-Mantle, Ground-Ivy, (yet, which are good to dry up the Recrements ‘ difcharged into the Cavities of the Bronchia and Sim", and to firengthen the loofe Compage of the Lungs. Sometimes in great Cafes, Fumes of the Flower of Brimltone, Olilwmm, Frachincenfe, Styrax, White Amber, and a little of prepared Arfeniclt, may be received into the Lungs with great benefit, to dry and heal them in point of a Conliimption. Empyricks do advife parts of prepared Arfenick, to be put into 2 Pipe, and the Fume to be receiVed into the Tabide Lungs, after the manner of Tobacco, which hath been done With good fuccels. But in adeplorable and defperate Confumption thefe Fumes cannot be advifed, as much intending the Heétick Fever, the [ad companion of an Ulcer 0m"? Lungs; wherefore its bell: in fuch cafes to advife Emulfions,A{Ies Milk, and Milk difiilled with Peé'torals and Snails, and a {lender Diet of White PGIICts, as made of a {mall quantity of Beer, whereby the Milk is not Wholly turned into Curd; and Water-gruel , Barley-gruel BarleyCreme, and thin Panada, (av:- and alfo SyruPs 0f Maidenhair, Liquorice, Coltsfoot, and the like, which contemperate the ‘Pblagajir of the Lungs, and help Expeétoration. Draughts of Black Cherry water, and of Colt54 foot, and Red P0ppy, and Cowflips, may be given often to procure Rel't, Which giveth eafe and refrefhment to the decayed Patient. Diltilled Water made of Green Blades, or Ears ofCom, mixed with Snail- Wm'la 311d Syrup e Meronio are beneficial in Heé'tick Fevers. Bélrley-waterboiled with the parings of Pippins, Pearmains, and condited Eringo Roots, Raifons of the Sun, adding a little Liquorice at hit, and Trochifces . {ome double refined Sugar may be uIEd infiead of comma:2 [1132111]: |