A rich storehouse, or treasurie for the diseased. Wherein are many approved medicines for divers and sundry diseases, which have bin long hidden, and not come to light before this time / First set foorth for the benefit and comfort of the poorer sort of people that are not of abilllitie [sic] to go to the phisitions, by A.T.

  • A. T., Practitioner in phisicke and chirurgerie
Date:
1607
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Credit: A rich storehouse, or treasurie for the diseased. Wherein are many approved medicines for divers and sundry diseases, which have bin long hidden, and not come to light before this time / First set foorth for the benefit and comfort of the poorer sort of people that are not of abilllitie [sic] to go to the phisitions, by A.T. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    oftentimes they catch more hurtby it, then they fliould haue had with- 1 oucit, for in three or foure daies fpacc after, they fill and ftuffe them- ] fellies with more raw luicesand humours, (by mcanes of vnmeaftira- ble dyct) then they had before, and oftentimes they doc die through oonuulfion. Andthereforcnotethatthereis fucli force and vcmiein a moderate dyet, to efehue and decline difeafes, that without the dueobferuation of it, Bloud-lecfingiscf nopurpofeatalfi And therefore if the com¬ mon faying of the pe pie he truein any body, that they muft of riccef- fitie bee let bloud often, it is very true, but it is in fucli as keepe an im¬ moderate diet, prefcntly after B loud-Jetting, and therefore I do ad' uercifeall men to beware of exceffein eating and drinking after Bloud- letting* : ' Note alfo, that after Blaud-Ietting noflfcought to walke very fail, or torunne,or to vfc any vehement exercjfe, but let him be quiet and reft Iiimfclfe ,vntill fuch time as his jpirits fhall be well refreshed and qui¬ eted againe. Noie alfo, that no perfon being let bloud, ought to fleepeimmediat- ly after Blond-letting,but let him keepe hinifelfe botli quiet and waking and auoydingaflcontentibnandexercifeof body and minde, and about two liquresafter leering of bloud, there may a little foode bee taken, but let it be fuch as will makegood mice and nourish apace, and within foure orfiuchouresaficr Blond-Jetting, or fomewhat afore,the patient may be permitted to fleepe, fo that it be prouided for, and taken beede cf, that hee doe not turnehimfeife vponthat aime, where the veyne was epeneefand let him alfo rake good heede that he doc not loofen the band,and to let the bloud flow out againe, and let him afterwardes vfe a fparing diet, dayiy increafiHg it by litfle and little,vmillfucli timeas he be come to his accuftomed ordinarie dyet againe. And note alio, that the morning js the nioftmeete fuime of all for Blond-letting, when euery digeftionisperfe&ly finished , and the fu*/ j p^rfluities and excrements of each of them fully avoyded out, which tiiingcsof ncccflity mull beforc-fecric, that they beto, Orat the leaft in a time of great extremitie, the next apt time to let bloud in , i$ when the ftonaacke is fomewhat empty, and that is about fixe or eight hcurcs after meace. i Thus much haue I entreated of as concerning Blond-letting, and now