Volume 172102
Some observations concerning the plague: with ... reference to the ... discourse of ... Dr. Mead, concerning pestilential contagion ... / By a Well-wisher to the publick.
- Date:
- 1721
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Some observations concerning the plague: with ... reference to the ... discourse of ... Dr. Mead, concerning pestilential contagion ... / By a Well-wisher to the publick. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![(ed to this Account ] That beginning to vifit the Sick ibetween four and Fzve in the Morning, he could ithen take Nothing, his Stomach perfectly loathing. both Meat, Drink, and Medicine, {o that he was con- ‘Atrained (though againft his own Judgement ) to go. ‘forth fafting, and could do no more than (after committing himfelf to God by pious Prayers ) to chew fome Grains of the leffer Cardamom; That a- bout 3$zx a Clock in: the Morning he took a little Treacle, or Diafcordium, or eat a little Candied Orange Pill, and very frequently three or four Bits of Candied E lecampane: About Eight he break- faftedupon aPeice of Breadwith Butter and Green- |cbeefe made of Sheeps Milk, drinking a Glais of ja Draught of Wormwood Wine about Nie: At Ten ike finoakeda Pipe of Tabacco, and after Dinner Two ior Three, and the like after Supper, and fometimes ‘Iwo or Three more between Meals, and if at any ‘ofthe 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 moft effeaual Prefervative, {o that the Tobacco be of ithe bef Sort. He adds, that upon the ceafing of ithe Plague he left off Smoakimg, not willing to ac- “Ufe into a deteftable Abufe. jas follows. | | Take the Roots of Butter-bur, Carlie Thiffle,- teas Angelica, Elecampane, of eachgan Ounce; i ; of Gentian one Dram and Half;.of thé ae So Se](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31926022_0002_0026.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
