- Signifies a hot Still with two pipes going into two wooden veſſels; In this Still you may put either hearbs, ſpices, with water, or with Spirits, and diſtill them, by which meanes they that are in the veſſels will preſently be forced into a ſweat by vertue of the ſubtlety of the vapours. And this indeed is as good and effectuall a way for ſweating as any can be invented: You may by this meanes appropriate your ingredients to the nature of the diſeaſes.
- A veſſell wherein a man ſits in the bath. Now this veſſell hath in it door for the eaſier going into it, which fashion is farre better, and more convenient, then to be open only at the top.
- A long veſſell where a man that is weak, and not able to ſit up, lies and is bathed.
Now you muſt note that theſe vapours muſt not be hotter then the patient can bear: alſo if the vapour come forth too hot upon the body of the patient, he may by putting a pipe upon the end of the pipe that comes into the veſſell, divert the hot vapour from his body, and ſo it will not offend him that way.
Note that the patient, aſſoon as he begins to be faint, muſt come forth or elſe he will ſuffer more prejudice, then good by his bathing; and alſo to prevent him from fainting let him take ſome Cordiall, or cold Beer, which will much revive him, and make him endure his bathing longer, as alſo make him ſweat the more.
Aſſoon as the patient comes forth, let him goe into a warm bed, and ſweat as he is able to beare it, and take ſome poſſet drink, or broth or ſuch like warme ſuppings, as alſo ſome good Cordiall it he be very faint.
The patient may according as his ſtrength will bear, and his diſeaſe require, bath, more ſeldome or oftner.
Before I ſet down the proceſſe of making an artificiall hot Bath, I ſhall promiſe ſomethings concerning the true nature,
