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A Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practically resolvedA Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practicaly resolved
A Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practically resolved by sundry ministers in October, 1682.A Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practicaly resolved by sundry ministers in October, 1682.
London: printed by J.A. for John Dunton, 1683
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Take this potion in this manner three next days together, every week for a body that can bear it, in ordinary Melancholy for seven weeks together, in old obstinate Melancholy for twelve or fourteen weeks: But if it be a body not full and strong enough to bear three days, take it the two next days every week: It gripeth more than the ordinary ways of using Senna, but that need not be feared, for it never brings the bloody-Flux nor useth to weaken: And the griping doth good, by drawing down the troubling matter from the head into the common passages.
Take this potion in this manner three next days together, every week for a body that can bear it, in ordinary Melancholly for seven weeks together, in old obstinate Melancholly for twelve or fourteen weeks: But if it be a body not full and strong enough to bear three days, take it the two next days every week: It gripeth more than the ordinary ways of using Senna, but that need not be feared, for it never brings the bloody-Flux nor useth to weaken: And the griping doth good, by drawing down the troubling matter from the head into the common passages.
5. If it be a thin tender body, aged or weak, that hath sharp humours, and can bear none of the aforesaid more effectual purges, such a one may either in Chicken broth, or in Barley water, or rather in Whey or Posset Drink boiled strong with Pippins, infuse all night (or rather three hours) some Senna (in a Cloth) and drink it in the morning as oft as he can bear it, that is two drams for very weak Persons, or three ordinarily, in near a point of the liquor, putting a little Cinnamon into it.
5. If it be a thin tender body, aged or weak, that hath sharp humors, and can bear none of the aforesaid more effectual purges, such a one may either in Chicken broth, or in Barley water, or rather in Whey or Posset Drink boyld strong with Pippens, infuse all night (or rather three hours) some Senna (in a Cloth) and drink it in the morning as oft as he can bear it, that is two drams for very weak Persons, or three ordinarily, in neer a point of the liquor, putting a little Cynamon into it.