Distill'd Vinegar, Camphyr. and alexipharmacal Ingredients are proper Preservatives.
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Distill'd Vinegar, Camphyr. and alexipharmacal Ingredients are proper Preservatives.
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Diluting and demulcent Drink then is best; as the whiete Decoction made strong with Hatshorn, which is an excellent Obtunder of the Blood, and Sheather of it's Acrimony, and duly Thickner of it's Parts; or Oatmeal, Water-gruel, or boyled Milk and Water plentifully drunk, and swill'd down in great Quantities, when the Heads of the Pustles fall down, and Pocks seem to go back by some Irregularity, which has promoted some of the Evacuations, is the best Cordial in the World; for Saffron and all the cordial or alexipharmacal Crew, are only a slow (nay sometimes a quick) Poyson, by fusing the Blood, rarefying and sending it a packing, by Sweat, Perspiration, Urine, or Stool: And what must raise the Pustle then?
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What is the poyson in the tooth of serpents, and of thelamprey, and the mus araneus, and the tarantula, but the gall? which according to the condition and qualitye of the creature, as the spirits that accompany those ejactulations are more subtile, aerial, or fierye, soe they appeare more or lesse furious in their effects; whereas, those parts (by which they ejaculate this gall) being taken away, the other parts become not only edible and of high nourishment, as in the thornback and lamprey, and in the honey of the bee; but in some they become the most soveraigne antidotes, as in the flesh of vipers: nay, the very spirits of some of these being received into apte bodyes, in their full strength, imprint such an alexipharmacal or alexitarial virtue into those bodyes, against all poyson, as seemes almost miraculous, as in viper wine and oyle of scorpions.
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It is not the minute quantity of French brandy, which I take purely upon the advice of my medical man, who pronounces it a sovereign alexipharmacal against the vapours, it is that Mr. Fitzgeorge has again offered to place me in an establishment which—
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