Directions given by Anthony Daffy, for taking his safe, innocent, and successful cordial drink, called, Elixir salutis / [Anthony Daffy].

  • Daffy, Anthony
Date:
[1719?]
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Credit: Directions given by Anthony Daffy, for taking his safe, innocent, and successful cordial drink, called, Elixir salutis / [Anthony Daffy]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    S C U R V E r. 'HF'HE Scurvty] (known by knots in the fleft,and blue fpottia X the skin) let the Patient* keep to the direction* in the three general obfervations, having due regard to the firength of their bodies, and take the drink two day*, intermitting two days* for the (pace of a month, and then take only one fpoonful in th« morning, and anothei an hour before dinner* SURFEITS. LET the Patient take the ordinary Dofeof three fpoonfute at night, and three in the morning, for fix time* without inter-, miflfton • and doubt not, but (by the Lords blefling) the fame will found fuecefsfu! to his or her Relief and Cure, though the height oftheduiemper had brought the Patient ^ery low, and nigh the gate* of Death: And I would advife others, and particularly fuch a* are apt to drink much Wine (sad and fophifticated Wine* being very frequent and fatal in tbi* City and elfewhere) that they do upon the leaft illncf* and indifpofirion of Body,apply them- felves unto this choice Remedy, cither the fame night, or the next morning, or both; for this Drink is experienced a choice Antidote for preventing of Surfeits infcnfibly healing upon men, and expel¬ ling out of the Body that malignant matter, which i* the occa- fion and rife thereof. F E S T 1 L E N C E. LET the Patient, when fi ft fmitten with this Vifitation, or with illnef* accompanied with any fymptom of the Diftempcr (re¬ gard being had to the dire&ion of the three general Obfervations). take three fpoonfids, or lef*, of this Drink7according to the Pa^ fiients ftrength or weaknef* of Body) and fo proceed a* occafioa fhall require $ and queftion not, but (through mercy) the fame will be found an effe&ual mean*, at well for overcoming the Diftemper, as for ftrengtheningNature, and reftoring Health funlef* the Patient* Vifitation be the meffenger of Death) a* hath been happily experienced, and will be attefted by diver* perfdn* an my own and other Families, which ftaid in theCity in the time of the laft great Vifitation, and: were Vifited, and yet through goodnei* do ftill remain in the Land ot the Living,