Wesley Corpus

Primitive Physick (14th ed., 1770)

AuthorJohn Wesley
Typetreatise
Year1770
Passage IDjw-primitive-physick-077
Words341
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Prevenient Grace Means of Grace Catholic Spirit
625. Or, be electrified : Tried . 626. Or , take a Decoction of Mother-wort every Night. 165. The Piles (to prevent. ) 627. Wafh the Parts often with cold Water. 166, The Piles (to cure.) 628. Applywarm Treacle: 629. Or, a Tobacco-leaffteep'd in Water twentyfour Hours : 630. Or, a Poultis of boil'd Brook-lime. It feldom fails : 631. Or, a bruised Onion fkin'd ; or roafted in Ashes. It perfectly cures the dry Piles : 632. Or, Leeks fried in Butter : 633. Or, Varnish. It perfectly cures both the blind and bleeding Piles : Tried. 634. Or, fumigate with House-leek, boiled in white Wine. 635. Or, with Vinegar, wherein red hot Flints have been quenched. This foftens even fchirhous Tumours. 167. The Inward Piles. 636. Drink largely of Treacle and Water : 637. Or, 637. Or, fwallow a Pill of Pitch fafting. One Pill ufually cures the bleeding Piles. 638. Or, drink a Spoonful of Juice ofYarrow, or of Leeks, three or four Mornings : Tried. 639. Or, take from one to two Drams ofFlour of Brimftone twice a Day in a Cup of WaterGruel : 640. Or, as much Sulphur-vivum as lies on a Shilling. It fhould open the Body a little : I. 168. Violent bleeding Piles. 641. Lightly boil Juice of Nettles, with a little Sugar: Take two Ounces. It feldom needs repeating. 169. The Plague (to prevent.) 642. Eat Marigold Flowers daily, as a Sallad, with Oiland Vinegar : 643. Or, a little of the Tops of Rue, with Bread and Butter, every Morning : 644. Or, infufe Rue, Sage, Mint, Rosemary, Wormwood, ofeach a Handful, in two Quarts of the fharpest Vinegar, over warm Embers for eightDays. Then ftrain it through a Flannel, and add half an Ounce of Camphire, diffolved in three Ounces of rectified Spirits ofWine. With this wash the Loins, Face , and Mouth, and fnuff a little up the Nofe when you go abroad. Smell to a Spunge dipt therein, when you approach infected Perfons or Places. 170. The
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