Selected quad for the lemma: water_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
water_n	half_a	ounce_n	small_a	3,273	5	6.7851	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61132	The natures, uses, & doses of several approved and experienced medicines, faithfully prepared by John Spire, junr. medicinæ professor. To which is added, a catalogue of various chymical preparations, by him always ready prepared	Spire, John, apothecary.	1698 (1698)	Wing S4988; ESTC R219129	12,326	26

and absterge all Preternatural Coagulations for which reason I call it Sal. Lenitivum it is endowed with these 4 general properties viz. Cathartick Dieuretick Deobstruent and allaying of all Preternatural heat and Acrimony besides it is a general easer of pain and extinguisher of Venom as is manifest by what it effects in alleviating the Pains of the Gout Rheumatism Collick griping of the Guts 1st It Purgeth the gross Excrements and most viscous humours of the first passages without nauseating the Stomach or the least Griping Pains 2ly It is singular in opening Obstructions of the Vessels and Viscera It is of great use in Fevers especially those that proceed from Surfeits occasioned by Eating or Drinking It also dissolves all Stagnant and Obstructing matter in the Viscera This Medicine doth not only dissolve and expurge the Excrements of the Stomach and Guts but it also corrects the violence of all Preternatural Purges if you put but two drams of it in their Infusion or drink the same quantity in a draught of warm Ale or Posset-drink after any Potion that will Gripe or Operate Churlishly c. This admirable Salt never leaves the Belly bound as the common Purges do but always Soluble therefore excellent against a Costive temper of Body The 2d intention of this Salt is to alter and open Obstructions in the Liver Spleen Mesentery Pancras Reins Bladder and Womb from which proceed many tedious and stubborn Diseases as the Scurvy Dropsie Jaundice Hypocondriack Melancholly Vapours Green-sickness Rheumatism inveterate Head-Ach Restlesness Sleepiness Vertigo Frenzy Cramps Convulsions internal Inflammations and Aposthumes Piles Exulcerations of the Kidnies and Bladder Gravel stoppage of Vrine c. Together with many others arising from Obstructions and Acrimony of the Blood and Vital Juices This excellent Salt may be taken at all times of the Year and in all places without loss of time or hindrance of business and although it be of great Use and Service in very many Diseases yet I have by experience observed that in some it is Specifically Potent as in the Scurvy Jaundice Dropsie Suffocations Green-sickness stoppage of the Menses Piles Cholick Diarrhaea Bloody-flux Worms Inflammations and Rheums of the Eyes Itch and other Cholerick Eruptions of the Skin heat of Vrine in all which cases it hath signaliz'd it self It 's Vse and Dose FOr any of the aforenamed Diseases to a Man or Woman is from half an Ounce to three quarters of an Ounce a Child of a Year Old one Dram to two Drams and so on according to Discretion of the Parent and Age of the Child always to be dissolved in Spring water plain Posset-drink or thin Water-gruel and in Summer-time in Whey which the Patient fancies best to take it in In the Scurvy it ought to be taken daily or every other day for a Month or six Weeks together taking in all their Drink a pure Spirit of Salt to the quantity of 40 drops in a Day which may be had at my House for 12 d. the Bottle For the Jaundice I give it in Summer in Water or Whey in Winter in warm Gruel or Posset drink 5 or 6 drams while the Jaundice cease observing to take it every other Day in the Dropsie in the same manner as the Jaundice only in a less quantity of the Vehicle continue it for a Months time In the Green-sickness in Maids it is necessary to dissolve an Ounce of the Salt in a Quart of pure spring-Spring-water and to take half a pint every Night and the same quantity early the next Morning continue taking if need be a Month or 5 Weeks In the Piles a quarter of an Ounce of the Salt dissolved in Water or Whey and taken for some time In the Cholick or griping of the Guts take one Quart of spring-Spring-water and boyl therein two Drams of each of the Seeds of Annis Fennil Caraway and Coriander then dissolve therein an Ounce of the Salt and let the Patient drink frequently thereof a small draught that the whole Quant may be drank in a Day if the Party Vomit continue the Dose while the Vomiting ceaseth In a Diarrhaea or common Loosness boyl Wheat-bran in Spring-water and take half an Ounce in the Decoction thereof daily or every other Day according to Strength In a Diassenteria or Bloody-flux give it in a Decoction of red Rose-leaves boyled in Water giving a Clyster daily made with the Broth of a Sheeps-head continue the use till the Party find Relief For Rheums of the Eyes take it daily in the ordinary manner In the Itch Botches Boyls and other Cholerick Eruptions of the Skin give half an Ounce or 5 Drams dissolved in Fumatory-water or Whey for a Fortnight or three Weeks together taking sometimes in their Beer a Spirit of Salt till the Cure be perfected The Price of this Noble SALT is one Shilling the Ounce XIII Vinum Vitae Or Our Anodine Drops BEing a soveraign Medicine against a Diassenteria or Bloody-flux Cholick Gripes Vomiting and Loosness in Young or Old and to procure quiet Rest The Vse and Dose FOr a Man or Woman take always at Bed-time half a spoonful in a draught of Mace-ale or Mul'd wine For Children in the Month from 4 drops to 20 in Brest-milk or Ale as they increase in Age so may the Dose be increased at the Discretion of the Nurse or Parent Price one Shilling the Bottle XIV Essentia Stomachia Or our Stomach Essence IS a great strengthner of the Stomach and expells Wind good against the Cholick Gripes Pains at the Stomach Stitches and Pains in the Side It helps indigestions and cures Surfeits and attracts cold watery Rheums from the Stomach The Dose is from 4 drops to 25 in a glass of Wine or Ale 2 or 3 times a Day as necessity calls for it Price Two Shillings Six-pence the Bottle XV. Spiritus Paragoricus Or Our Bathing Spirit WHich is a safe sure and ready Medicine it may be taken inwardly in Paralitick and Appoplectick Cases but I here chiefly design it for external Uses it being a singular Arcanum in the Erysipelas and Gangrenes it alayeth the Pains of the Gout Cloths being dipt in it and applyed if it be laid to the Pulse at the Wrists its good in ardent Fevers it helpeth strained Limbs Pains and Aches in any part of the Body with benumed Nerves the shrinking of the Sinews and is very good to smell to and Bath the Temples and Fore-head for the Head-ach warming and comforting the parts where there seems to be a decay of Life or want of Nutriment Price Two Shillings Six-pence the Bottle XVI Pul-vis Antivermis Or Our Worm-powder BEing a certain Remedy killing and destroying the cause of all sorts of Worms in the Bodies of Men Women and Children it ought to be taken generally at the New or Full of the Moon in the Morning Fasting it works moderately by Stool you may give it to a Child of a year old a quarter of a Paper for one of 3 years half a