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that are already feiz’d with the Plague or any Malignant 
Fever, mud take a Spoonful of it, and fweat upon 
it. 
What the Benefit of this Arcanum may be, any judici- 
ous pbyfician may judge for himfelf. For my part, I 
can neither commend the Compofition nor the Operation 
of it, not having found that in the Difeafe it performed 
any thing extraordinary $ nor was it fo beneficial as 
much Simpler Medicines. 
Thofe who made ufe of their own Phyficians, and 
conformed themfelves to their Prefcriptions, fared with- 
out doubt much the better for it 5 as having their Bodies 
feafonably prepared with AUxifh Armaches, Bezoardicks , 
Antifcorbuticks > Diaphoreticks , Diureticks , gentle Laxatives , 
&c. 
My Prefervative was an EfTence, which was prepared 
of the Species of the Effence of Woods, Safron , Aloes , and 
red Myrrh , extracted with Spirit ot Wine, and adding 
to it the Mixtura Simplex : Which 1 found very Beneficial, 
not only towards Prefervation, but likewife in the Cure, 
as I (hall have farther occafion to fh«w. Dr. Godfrey 
Stuve, an Ingenious Phyfician of this Town, made ufe 
of this Medicine with a great deal of Benefit. Dr. A - 
chatius Muller , at the very time when the Plague was at 
the Height, had great Succefs with his Acetum Antimonij 
ex Minera, which without doubt was mixed with Be- 
zoardicks. Befides my Effentia pr^fervativa, I gave forae- 
times a Bezoardick Powder at Night, confiding of the 
Bezoardicum Serin. Bezoardicum compofitum Wagner i, or 
elfe this Bezoar mixt with Specijitum cepbalicum Michaelis. 
And if there was the lead appearance of the Diftemper, 
I ordered my Sulphur minerale confortans , mixed with 
a Bezoardick orDigedive. 
Among the various Compofirions of Bezoardick Pow- 
ders, the following was none of the lead 5 ot which I 
ordered very frequently to be taken as much as would 
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