Likewise Pouder of Butter Burr Root, given in the same manner, provoketh Sweat powerfully, and expelleth the Poyson of the Plague.
Take of Zedoary Root that is gummy and sound, one Ounce, Sugar Candy one Ounce and an half, Camphire half an Ounce; mix all in a fine Pouder: The Dose is one Dram in some distill'd Water.
If the Patient can best take his Medicine in a Bolus.
Take of Venice Treacle one Dram, Tormentile Roots, Bole prepar'd, of each one Scruple, Syrup of Gilloflowers as much as sufficeth.
Take Diascordium, Confectio Liberans, of each half a Dram, or two Scruples, Salt of Wormwood one Scruple, Conserve of Roses vitriolated half a Dram, Syrup of Gilloflowers as much as is sufficient.
Take of Conserve of Roses half a Dram, Balsam of Sulphur, fifteen Drops; mix them. Take Posset Drink half an hour, or an hour after any of these.
When many People are sick, and there is not leisure to compound every Dose of these Medicines severally, there should be a large mixture of each kind made up together, which may immediately, and without trouble be distributed into Doses.
For Sweating Potions thus.
Take a Quart of Small Plague Water, of Compound Water of Scordium and Pestilential Vinegar, of each a Quarter of a Pint, of Syrup of Gilloflowers two Ounces, Venice Treacle one Ounce, of Diascordium and Confectio Liberans, of each half an Ounce, Pestilential Extract, Salt of Wormwood, of each two Drams; put all together in a large Glass, shake them well together, and after it has stood Four and Twenty Hours, make use of it: Pour out three Ounces of the clear, and two Ounces of it turbid or shaken just before: This may serve for fourteen or sixteen days.
Mix a Pouder thus.