18 CULPEPER’s ENGLISH: PHYSICIAN, 
and barrennefs. When it happens fome time before the menfes ought to appear, 
and they break forth without obftruction, it is ufually cured upon this eruption, 
without farther means, If the whites come after the green-& Noknefs has been long 
fixed, it is held to be a bad fign; if before, and it happens upon the ftoppage of 
the menftrual flux, it often proves critical: if the courfes flow regularly during the | 
diftemper, 1 it is accounted a good fymptom, and there is no danger. To forward a 
cure, the patient ought to be placed in a thin and clear air, to drink tea, barley- 
water, and other attenuating liquors, warm, and made agreeable to the palate, Her 
food fhould be nourifhing, but eafy of digeftion, and not fuch as may inflame. 
‘Moderate exercife every day, fuch as walking, riding, ftirring about the houfe, is 
very ferviceable, notwithftanding the difficulty and uneafinefs that attend it, and — 
_ the great antipathy of, the patient to any fort of motion, Sleep ought to be mode-. _ 
rate, and taken at a due diftance from meals, not till an hour or two, at leaft, after 
fupper. All paffions of the mind, efpecially thofe of melancholy and defpair, are - 
highly prejudicial ; if the difeafe, therefore, be found to proceed from a fettled in- 
clination after marriage, the parents of the patient fhould endeavour to provide her 
a fuitable match, as the moft effectual cure; or, if the defire be after a particular 
perfon, to let her have him at all events, if they approve her choice. But, if matri- 
‘mony be not judged convenient for her, either on account of youth, or for any other’ 
reafon, they muft then have recourfe to phyfical remedies, according to the following 
directions. If the patient be at all plethoric, that is, if her veins be well ftored with 
blood, bleeding will be highly proper to begin the cure ; and this is to be fucceeded 
by proper purgatives.’ In fome cafes, efpecially when the patient 1 is very young, 4 
vomit is often fuccefsful, being exhibited before purgation. Thole cathartics, that 
are. either mixed along with alterative medicines, or given in fuch quantities. asta” 
_ make them aét as alterants, or lie a confiderable time in the body before they ope- 
rate, are ufually very efficacious, and in weakly conftitutions preferable to other pur- 
gatives. The following will, in general, be found to perform a cure:---T ake caftor, 
faffron, myrrh, black hellebore-root, all in powder, each one drachm; gum ammo- — 
ic, One drachm and-a half; falt of fteel, four fcruples ;. beft aloes powdered, two 
chr 3 oil of cinnamon, fifteen drops; fyrap of the. five roots, a fufficient quan- 
i Aa | pills out of every drachm, of which Jet five be taken every night, 
m briony-water, and penny-royal water, of each two. ounces. 
> warm and comfort the nerves, thin the blood and juices, and. 
late freely. They muft be continued regularly for ten or 
twelve days. Am ndeed all cathartics of this nature, that are intended to make an 
alteration in the whol | fyftem, which is often neceffary i in ‘thefe cafes, muft 
have much more time to oper wth than thofe which are intended only to purge the 
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