Febrifugum magnum, or, Common water the best cure for fevers, and probably for the plague / by John Hancocke.

  • Hancocke, John, -1728
Date:
1723
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Credit: Febrifugum magnum, or, Common water the best cure for fevers, and probably for the plague / by John Hancocke. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    bf Poifons, to the Cure of the Malignity of the Plague. But the World has for many Hundred Years been lead away with an Opinion, that only hoc Medicines are Sudorificks, and have known little or nothing, as far as I can find, of procuring a kindly, eafy, and plentiful Sweat, by a good Dofe of innocent Liquids, and particularly by cold Water given in Bed, which I have, by long Experience, found to’ be the very beft way to do it- . IO* 1 aflert, that cold Water, which may be given in a large Quantity, (if it will procure a fafe, eafy, and plentiful Sweat, as I know it wilQ is more likely to imbibe and abforbe thofe noxious and poifonous Particles that caufe the Fever; and by cooling and dilu¬ ting the Blood, and making ic fit to pafs eafier through the Capillary Arteries, and fo to opera the Glands of the Skin, to carry off not only the morbifick Matter, and corrupt, vitiated and putrify’d Humours of the Blood, and to correfl the too much Vifcidity of the ner¬ vous Juice, but even the Poifon it felf, than any of the common hot Sudorificks ; molt of which can be given fafely only in a final! Quantity, and unlefs they be feconded with Plenty of innocent Liquids, muff only heat, diforder, and corrupt the Blood; and make the Fever worfe, and the poifonous Particles more virulent, and confequently very often do more hurt than good. The Ingenious Or. CW N has