Volume 1

A preservative from the infection of the plague, or any contagious distemper in city, camp, fleet, etc., and for curing such as are infected with it, after the most plain and easy method. Written in the year 1666 / [Thomas Willis].

  • Thomas Willis
Date:
1721
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A preservative from the infection of the plague, or any contagious distemper in city, camp, fleet, etc., and for curing such as are infected with it, after the most plain and easy method. Written in the year 1666 / [Thomas Willis]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    59/70 (page 49)
    [ 49]. caufe other more hot Medicines may provoke Abortion. Make Tormentil Vinegar thus : Take Roots of Tormentil, Bi- | {tort dryd ‘and flicd, of each an Ounce ; Cinamon, half an Ounce; Ked SS nders: one Dram: Bruife all very well, and put to it a Quart of ~ White-Wine Vinegar : Di- geft it in a common Pisin for four Days. At the fume time, take Red and White Coral, fmely powderd, of each half an Ounce; Dra- gon’s-Blood , Blood-Stone, of each one Dram ; fine Bole, two Drams. Dicef thefe in the pe manner with a Quart ) of.