        item: #1 of 5
          id: A30809
      author: Byfield, T. (Timothy)
       title: A short discourse on the rise, nature, and management of the small-pox, and all putrid fevers occasioned by the death of our late incomparable queen : together with a philosophical account of an excellent remedy for these and many other diseases / by T. Byfield ...
        date: 1695
       words: 6156
      flesch: 54
     summary: But when the Blood is let out the empty space is immediatly fill'd ( for Nature admits no vacuum ) with a cool thin Air , which causes this Vapour that is of a heavier Nature to flat ; sink , and fall back on the Vitals , of which an undeniable Proof is the depression of the Spirits , and sick Qualms of dangerous consequence , if immediate relief be not given . Nor is this all , for the Blood as I said before , being the very Mansion of the Spirit of Life , as the Scripture it self bears Witness , you part with your dearest Friend , under pretence of expelling an Enemy , which yet you can never do this way , tho' you should draw it half out ; no more than you can fine thick muddy Liquors by such unlikely Experiments ; For what 's left is as bad still . So that He may truly be call'd the Heart of the Universe , deriving Life to all parts , and impregnating decaying Nature with new Vitality .
    keywords: air; blood; body; diseases; fire; life; medicine; nature; spirits; tcp; text
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        item: #2 of 5
          id: A49182
      author: Lamport, John.
       title: A direct method of ordering and curing people of that loathsome disease, the small-pox teaching the common sort of people (to whom the care of the sick is for the most part committed) how to go thorow their business with much more safety ... : as also how to prevent the usual deformity of marks and scars ... for the benefit of all, but especially the poor / being the twenty years practical experience and observations of John Lamport, alias, Lampard ...
        date: 1685
       words: 8762
      flesch: 64
     summary: For I do believe there is not one of a Hun●●●● th●t goeth so warily upon the Art of Heali●g as I did , being above Twelve Years a curi●●●●●archer into Galens Doctrine ; and as strict 〈◊〉 observer of their practice that were his Fol●●●●● , before I did meddle with the Admini●●●●●ion of Ph●sick ; but I do assure you that I ●●●●ived more satisfaction in reading one Chymic●l * Author of about four or five shillings price , 〈◊〉 f●om all the books that came to my hand in all ●h●t time . Of how singular use a Treatise of this kind may prove to all sorts of people , may e●sily be conceived , if we do but consider how hard a matter it is to get any body but to enter into an infected house ; the great Charge it is for poor people to pay a Nurse , and how ignorant the most of them are of their business when they are obtained . Or do but consider what a sad condition it is , when it happens in a Family , where none hath had the distemper , and a Tender is not to be gotten ; whereby the Husband , is constrained to tend the Wife , or she her Husband ; or they sometimes three , four or more Children sick of this Disease : How Ioyful would they be to know my cheap Antidote , for preserving some to tend the rest ? Or to be assured with what Liquor they may boldly and safely refresh their Darling Husbands , Wives , or scorched thirsty Babes .
    keywords: beer; disease; doth; good; hath; patient; people; pox; stomach; tcp; text; time; use; vomit; ● ●
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        item: #3 of 5
          id: A59949
      author: Sherwood, Thomas, Practitioner in physick.
       title: The charitable pestmaster, or, The cure of the plague conteining a few short and necessary instructions how to preserve the body from infection of the plagve as also to cure those that are infected : together with a little treatise concerning the cure of the small pox : published for the benefit of the poore of this city and not unmeet for the rich / by Thomas Shervvood ...
        date: 1641
       words: 5318
      flesch: 61
     summary: This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A59949 of text R6113 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing S3416). Wherefore I have often said , that a skilfull Physician by watching his time shall doe more with à cup of warme drinke in the cure of the Plague , or any Fever , then the ignorant shall do with all the excellent Medicines that are in the Apothecaries Shop .
    keywords: body; cure; hath; medicines; pestilence; plague; pox; sick; text
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        item: #4 of 5
          id: A62286
      author: Scaife, Isabel. aut.
       title: A short relation of some words and expressions that were spoken by Barbara scaife in time of her sickness, a little before she departed this life she was betwixt fifteen and sixteen years of age, daughter to William and Issabel Scaife of the Blacksike near Appleby, in the county of Westmerland: in profession of the principles of light and life in Christ Jesus. Which those people commonly called Quakers do bear testimony to, and had fellowship with, from their child-hood, and had a care upon them to bring up their children in the fear of the Lord, and in the knowledge of that truth which they had believed in: and which their children were in their tender age truly acquainted with.
        date: 1686
       words: 3618
      flesch: 61
     summary: After which for some dayes her exerc●●● becoming more weighty upon her , and her weakness encre●●ing , her voice became very low and weak , several times 〈◊〉 was heard to pray to the Lord , but none could take 〈◊〉 words to make them intelligable . O Lord and all my sins .
    keywords: barbara; lord; scaife; tcp; time
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        item: #5 of 5
          id: A65692
      author: Whitaker, Tobias, d. 1666.
       title: An elenchus of opinions concerning the cure of the small pox together with problematicall questions concerning the cure of the French pest / by T. Whitaker ...
        date: 1661
       words: 17311
      flesch: 25
     summary: I call it rash and inconsiderate practise in this Disease , because it is a doubt indetermined amongs● the most Learned Professors 〈◊〉 all Nations , both Greeks , Arabians , and Latins , and all other principled from them ; being all of them unresolved of Ph●●botomy in the small Pox , upo● any indication to be a safe remedy ; and if the Disease 〈◊〉 conjunct with an undeniab●● plethory of bloud , which is the proper indication of Phlebotomy ; yet such bleeding ought to be by scarification and cupping-glasses without the cutting of any major vessel , because the Section of such veins do not only evacuate too much spirit , but also retract the peccant cause to the Centre which is intended to the circumference , and effected by a shallow scarification upon the arms , back and thighs ; by which course there is a diminution of the cause in its mixture , and assistance to nature in its circumferential motion , with little expence of ●ixt or fluent spirit , which is a great support to universal nature in its co●atus to discharge the most noble parts from danger of ruine . Valeriola , whose memory is honourable , doth endeavour to prove the Small Pox or Measles which appear critically in inpestilential Fevers , not to be by Galen nominated Exanthemata , with whose opinion I do consent , because the appellation is of general extent to all kind of pustules , and of choller 's , as is verified in his book De atra bile , ( where he affirmeth ) in deceased persons ; where excretion by the lower belly is not sufficient , in such persons the whole body is affected with pustules , quae nigris exanthematis similes essent , circum undique scatuit ; and in other places ( he speaketh ) of white pustules , ( which Pliny nameth papulas ) and of these Cornelius Celsus maketh more kinds of rough and sharp eruptions upon the skin , magis & minus being the onely distinction of them : and many Moderns conceive these Pox to proceed from maternal menstruosity , others conceive them to be intercutaneal , ill juices or ●eccant humours , fermented by an intense heat in the superficies of the skin which corrupt humours ( according to Fracastorius ) are generated by corrupt dyet , and therefore in his book De morbis , he placeth this disease of the Small Pox amongst diseases Epidemical ; and as it is an affect cutaneal and epidemical , so it doth infect all children and young persons , because their temper is properly more moist and hot than old age , it being cold and dry in it self , but excrementitiously moist , onely by the decay of natural heat , and altogether indisposed to receive the impression of it ; old age being properly , & per se , cold and dry in temper , if otherwise , it is mirandum in morbo , and for such wonders in diseases I shall refer the Reader to Skenkius and Pe●rus Forestus , &c.
    keywords: bloud; cause; disease; doth; dyet; french; hath; heat; humours; motion; nature; persons; phlebotomy; pox; poyson; practise; quality; reason; remedies; remedy; self; sense; spirits; time; ● ●
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