Some observations concerning the plague. Occasion'd by, and with some reference to, the late ingenious discourse of the learned Dr. Mead, 'Concerning pestilential contagion, and the methods to prevent it.' / By a well-wisher to the publick.
- Date:
- 1721
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Some observations concerning the plague. Occasion'd by, and with some reference to, the late ingenious discourse of the learned Dr. Mead, 'Concerning pestilential contagion, and the methods to prevent it.' / By a well-wisher to the publick. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Chap. 9. [the Cornpofition of which fnail be fab join¬ ed to this Account] That beginning to vifit the Sick between Four and Five in the Morning, he could then take Nothing, his Stomach perfectly loathing both Meat, Drink, and Medicine, fo that he was con- drained (though againft his own Judgment) to go forth fading, and could do no more than ( after committing himfelf to God by pious Prayers) to chew feme Grains of the Idler Cardamon ; That a- bout Six a Clock in the Morning he took a little 'Treacle or Diafcordium, or eat a little Candy d Orange Fill, and very frequently three or four Bits of Candy d Elecampane: About Eight he break- faded upon a Piece of Bread with Butter and Green- cheefe made of Sheeps Milk, drinking a Glafs of Ale^ and now and then ( but not daily ) he took a Draught of Wormwood Wine about Nine: At Ten he fmoaked a Pipe of Tobacco, and after Dinner Two or Three, and the like after Supper, and fometimes Two or Three more between Meals :> and if at any Time he found himfelf affeded with the III Smell of the Sick, he prefently had Recourfe to the fame Remedy, which he fays, he found by his own Ex¬ perience , as well as always thought to be the mod effedual Prefervative, fo that the Tobacco be of the befl Sort. He adds, that upon the ceafing of the Plague he left off Smoaking, not willing to ac- cudom himfelf to it, led he Ihould turn its laudable Ufe into a detedable Abufe. The Cornpofition of the Anti-pejlilential Pills is as follows. ' Take the Roots of Butter-bur, Carline Thiflle, Dittany, Angelica, Elecampane , of each half an Ounce, of Gentian one Dram and Half •, of the be ft Rhubarb, one Ounce and Half j of Ze do ary one Dram r](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30774135_0022.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
