CHAP. 20. Againſt the mortality of the Peſtilence an approved remedy.

Take Gentian, Seduaria, roots of Turmentille of each of them two Ounces, Red Sandal, white and Recent, Ditany, Harts horn burnd, white pearl, bole Armoniack round Ariſtolochia, of each of them an Ounce, half an Ounce of Camphere, two Ounces of white Suger: of all theſe things beaten together into powder you ſhall take at every time a dram with three Ounces as Endive water, or Sorrell water, mixe the water and the Suger with the bigneſs of a Walnut of fine Triacle, you muſt miniſter this Medicine before the ſickneſs have continued with the perſon twelve hours for it is the ſurer, if the patient be an infant then give him but half a dram of it with an Ounce and a half of one of the ſaid waters, and with the like quantity of Triacle, this drink is neither ſolvable nor laxative, nor doth cauſe any grief to the patient but onely killeth the poyſon, if any perſon have drunk or eaten any poyſon it is a very good Medicine for him, it is alſo very good againſt a hot fevor or Ague, note alſo that if it be poſſible the patient muſt be let bloud before he take this or ſuddenly after.