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.

by Practitioner in physick Thomas Sherwood

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Thoſe that deſire further information concerning any particulars not expreſſed at larg in this brief Treatiſe, they ſhall be fully ſatisfied, if they repaire to the Author living in Hony-ſuckle Court in Grub-ſtreet, where he hath by Chimicall Art prepared ſix Catholicall Medicines, with which hee cureth the Peſtilence, ſmall Pox, and moſt curable diſeaſes whatſoever.

1 Vomitivum Benedictum.

This Medicine being taken from five graines to eight, in ſome convenient diſtilled water or wine, or elſe with ſome Conſerve or Pill, doth ſafely purge upwards and downwards, ſo that it may be given to a Childe, of three or foure yeeres of age: it cureth all diſeaſes that ariſe from the foulneſſe of the ſtomack, and is good in the beginning of the Peſtilence, ſmall Pox, or any Fever, or Ague.

2 Catharticum Catholicum.

The doſe of it is from ten grains to twenty, it purgeth gently by ſtoole, and clenſeth the lower belly from all offenſive humours, & cureth the French Pox, Scurvy, Jaundis, and Dropſie, alſo it freeth children from Worms.

3 Diureticum Aperitivum.

This openeth all obſtructions of the body, but chiefly of the Liver, Spleen, Reines, and Bladder, it [15] ]cureth the Jaundis and the Rickets in children, alſo it helpeth thoſe that cannot make water.

4 Diaphoreticum Cordiale.

This being given in a ſmall doſe doth gently provoke ſweat, expelleth all venomous humours from the heart outwardly, and driveth out the ſmall Pox, thruſteth out the tumours in the Peſtilence, and ſome it cureth without bringing forth a Riſing.