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all the fore- mention’d Diet 
he muft eat Chicken fpa- 
inglyat the Beginning, in- 
creafing his Meals by de- 
grees. After fifteen or fix- 
teen Days, purge with ten 
; Drams of the Pulp of Caf- 
j fia, orfome fuch Medicine, 
I and on the fame Day let 
him drink of the Second 
Decodion : On the Seven- 
\ teenth Day let him return 
to the Method above de- 
fcrib’d ; let him take , 
Morning and Evening, the 
Water of the Firft Deco- 
dion, fweat, and be diet- 
ed as before ; only, inftead 
! of a Chicken, let him eat 
half a Pullet; and towards 
the End, fomewhat more : 
Let him continue the fame 
Diet to theTwentiethDay, 
at which time, being well 
doath’d, let him walk a- 
bout his Chamber ; after- 
wards purge him again, 
and let him continue the 
ufe of the Decodion forty 
Days more, and let him 
obferve an orderly Diet 
and abftain from Women 
and Wine. But if he nau- 
feate the Decodion, let 
him drink Water wherein 
; Annife and Feflnel have 
been boy I’d let him eat a 
fmall fupper, and, to be 
fure, let him forbear Flefh 
then. This Method, fome 
think, will eradicate the 
worft fort of Pox : But o- 
thers hold, there is no other 
Way of curing it, when ir 
is deeply rooted, than by 
the ufe of Mercury. The 
incomparable Chirurgeon, 
Mr. PVifemnn, mentions it 
frequently in his excellent 
Treatife oftheFrench-Pox. 
Take of Guaiacum four 
Ounces, of the Bark of the 
fame two Ounces, of Sar- 
faparilla eight Ounces, of 
the Wood of Saxifrage one 
Ounce and an half, of the 
Shavings of Hart’s-horn 
and Ivory, each fix Drams; 
infufe them all Night in 
ten Quarts of Fountain- 
water, then boyl them in a 
Veffel clofe ftop’d, to the 
Confumption of a third 
part ; add at the End, of 
the Leaves and Roots of 
Soap-wort two Handfuls, 
of the Leaves of Agrimony, 
and both the Speedwells, 
each one Handful ; ofRai- 
fins ftoned fix Ounces ; of 
the Seeds of Sweet Fennel 
and Coriander, eace fix 
Drams ; of Spanifh Liquo- 
rifh two Ounces ; ftrain 
the 
