Wesley Corpus

46. A Confumption . 206. A beginning Confumption was cured by drinking Decoction of Guaiacum Morning and Evening for fifteen Days (without Sweating) with a light Diet. 207. Cold Bathing has cured many deep Confumptions : Tried. 208. One in a deep Confumption was advised to drink nothing but Water, and eat nothing but Water-gruel, without Salt or Sugar . In three Months Time he was perfectly well. 209. Take no Food but new Butter-milk, churn'di in a Bottle , and white Bread. I have known this fuccessful : 210. Or, boil two Handfuls of Sorrel in a Pint of Whey. Strain it, and drink a Glafs thrice a Day. Tried. 211. Or, take a Spoonful of Syrup of Fox-glove, Morning and Evening : Tried. 212. Or, turn a Pint of fkim'd Milk with half a Pint of small Beer. Boil in this Whey, about twenty Ivy-leaves, and two or three Sprigs of Hyffop, drink half over Night, the rest in the Morning. Do this, ifneedful, for two Months daily. This has cured in a defperate Cafe :- Tried. 213. Or, take a Cow heel from the Tripe-houfe ready dreft , two Quarts of new Milk, two Ounces of Hartfhorn-fhavings, two Ounces of Ifing glafs, a Quarter of a Pound of Sugar-candy, and a Race