Febrifugum magnum, or, Common water the best cure for fevers, and probably for the plague / by John Hancocke.

  • Hancocke, John, -1728
Date:
1723
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Credit: Febrifugum magnum, or, Common water the best cure for fevers, and probably for the plague / by John Hancocke. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    mal, the Vegetable, or Mineral Poifons, tho5 I think the Mineral has the faired Pretence, becaufewe fee People are fuffocated by fuch fort of Vapors, as they are fometimes in the Piague when the Infection is ftrong; this pro¬ bably is the Cafe in InfeQrion from the Air, tho5 not when it comes from infected,Bodies. Therefore tho’ the World may have fome Experience of fome Things that may be looked on as Specificks, for the refitting of fome forts of Poifons, as that of the Viper, or Afp, or Scorpion, or as we know, the Bite or Sting of the Tarantula, is cured by feme Strains of Mufick, and violent Dancing upon it ; yet being we know not what fort of Poi- fon that is that caufes the Piague, we can¬ not with any Certainty apply fuch forts of An¬ tidotes for the Cure of the Plague. And we can have no fort of A durance, that fuch Things as may be by Experience found good for the refitting and quelling the Force of fome forts of Poifons, are good for the refitting the Poifon that caufes the Piague, any further than as they are Sudorificks, and by kindly Sweating, or by infenfible Perfpiration, carry off the Fever, and the malignant Particles that were the Caufe of it together. Nor is it very likely, that fuch violent hot Antidotes as we are fure increafethe Fever, which is the natural Confequence of the Infedlon in the Plague, whether from the Air or other Contagion, (hould do much to quel] the Ma¬ lignity,