A practical method as used for the cure of the plague in London, in 1665 / By Sir Charles Scarborough ... With some remarks upon the present plague in France.

  • Charles Scarborough
Date:
1722
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Credit: A practical method as used for the cure of the plague in London, in 1665 / By Sir Charles Scarborough ... With some remarks upon the present plague in France. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    t* 8] pending Part with a Lancet, and let them run plentifully. Then, at each DrelTing, walh the ulcer with this Lotion, warm : ft White Wine, and Aqua Prunella, where¬ in Turpentine hath been wafh d, Mel Ro- farum \ of each, equal Parts : Make an In- jedion. In which dip a (hort Tent, it being arm’d with Bafilicon \ and fo apply it, with a Dia- cbalon Plaifter cum Gummis over all. During the whole Cure, he preferib’d A- lexipharmicks Night and Morning } viz. hit Tintiura Pejlilentiatis, Half a Spoonful, (and fo in Proportion, a lefler Dofe, according tc Age and Sex) to defend the Body, and drive the Mahgnity out, left otherwife its infedi* ©us Atoms might be fent to the Heart, anc kill the Patient. ■ ■ f , Having thus come to a Concluuqn oi tna tranhent View (we have herein given you of our Author’s Method of Pradice , it re mains now, that we give you here the Re cipe's themfelves, whofe Virtues were fo ex treamly cry’d up, for the vaft Benefit th Publick found from them, during the late 1; tal Times. The Tintiura Vejlilentialis. ft Virginian Snake-Root, Three Ounces Winters-bark, Two Ounces } Contrajferv Cinn