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<NAME>Paul Schaffner</NAME>
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<HEAD>An approved <HI>Antidote</HI> or Cordiall <HI>Medicine,</HI> that by Gods favour cureth the <HI>Pe&s;tilentiall Feaver,</HI> or <HI>Plague,</HI> with other contagious <HI>Agues</HI> or <HI>Feavers,</HI> beginning either hot or cold, and that once ta|king, or at the mo&s;t at twice, and hath no ta&s;t nor &s;mel: and the quantity at one time to be taken is but 8 Graines, And the vertue therof, will not decay in 40 yeares, and it is to be u&s;ed as followeth.</HEAD>
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<HEAD>The manner of taking this <HI>Antidote.</HI></HEAD>
<P><HI>_IMprimis,</HI> Whether the <HI>Ague</HI> or <HI>Feaver</HI> beginne hot or cold, let Him or Her that taketh it, take it when they are in bed; it being halfe an houre or more before the expected fit. But if the <HI>Ague</HI> or <HI>Feaver</HI> be continuall; give it any time, and let him be inclined to Sweate.</P>
<P><HI>Item,</HI> It is be&s;t to be mixed with a little Mithridate Triacle or &s;ome Con&s;erve, or in the pap of an Apple, for that it is a Pow|der &s;mall in quantity, and cannot well be received alone, other|wi&s;e it needs no helper, and being taken in, &s;hortly after let the Patient take a rea&s;onable full draught of an ordinary Po&s;&s;et well warme and lying &s;till on the one &s;ide, being warme covered Head and all, leaving &s;ufficient place for breathing, &s;weat gently, not forceably, with &s;ome abate|ment of his covering (after he beginneth to Sweat) and the roome kept warme, and if hee can &s;o continue it for 3 or 4 houres (it were be&s;t so) or as long as hee can well endure, and ever if he thir&s;t give him Po&s;&s;it drinke, and when he hath performed due &s;weating, let him bee dried, &s;hifted, and cloathes put on, and let him take &s;ome light refre&s;hing of Broth, or the like, and if he before or after his Sweating bee much bound in his Belly, he may take an ordinary Suppo&s;itary onely to move one &s;toole and no more.</P>
<P>For Purging is dangerous in the cure of the Plague: and Sweat provoking Medicines are more &s;afe, and the Di&s;ea&s;e it &s;elfe explaines no le&s;&s;e.
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Secund Hip|pocrat. lib. 21. Aphor. 1. Qu&ograve; na|tura vergit ad loca con|ferentia, e&ograve; ducere opor|tet.</NOTE> For in the Plague Nature for|ceth out her contagious enemie in Botches, Blaines, &amp;c. by the Pores of the Ski<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">ne; &s;o that by the true Rule of Art, the <HI>Arti&s;t</HI> being Natures Mini&s;ter, is to a&s;&s;i&s;t and helpe her in her weakene&s;&s;e, for the expelling of her enemie, by her preordained way, namely, by Sweating, and not by Purging.</P>
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<P>All &s;uch as take this Antidote before the Di&s;ea&s;e have overmuch weakened them, they may &s;afely goe about their affaires, the Day following without feare or danger, being carefully temperate: and if they had any appearance of Botches, Blaines or Carbuncles, they will decline and goe away of them&s;elves, without further helpe.</P>
<P>But neverthele&s;&s;e hee may take a &s;econd like Sweat &s;afely. Al&s;o if the Patient have any run|ning Sores, and be much weakened, yet by taking this Antidote he &s;hall &s;o &s;weat out the ve|nome and infectious Poi&s;on, as that his Sores will not onely ea&s;ily be healed, but the Patient will quickly recover perfect health.</P>
<P>A Child about 8 yeares may take 5 Graines, one about 16 yeeres may well take 6. and one of 20 yeeres or upwards 8 Graines: and a Woman the like, although with child, if &s;hee have the Plague; and &s;o all &s;orts of Per&s;ons as afore&s;aid may take the like quantity in conta|gious Feavers or Agues, hot or cold, although the Agues or Feavers have been of coninu|ance, for if the fir&s;t Sweat helpe not, the &s;econd (God willing) will.</P>
<P>This Antidote provoketh no vomit, &s;tooles, nor any other Accidents, but by a hidden &s;pe|ciall faculty (no doubt from above) helpeth Nature; utterly to vanqui&s;h her dreadfull ene|my the Plague. From the which God of his Great mercy protect us.</P>
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