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1 8. Ha Mbrewir happen, or through a Plateric ( that is fulna's of blood ) the Circula- ti &# of the blood be hindred, and thereupon the whole inits ofblood chocked up, then either let blood, Or fee that the r diet, or medicines be not altogether cooling, but les then in no wile be heating, therefore let hint lye ne otherwife covered in his bed then he was went inhealth : His Chanter not made hot with fire if the weather be temperate, les hem drink finall Beer only warm'd with a Tot let him fop up the water-grathor wa. Irr pannage made only cfin lian Hour and a set, infield of Our way: Let him cat bond Apper: But I would out a vite at this timeany medicine befiles. By this means that er. cefive Ebaliten ( or hoyling of his blowl ) will by degrees ahate, and the Symptoms ceafe; Itnot, but the blood be fo images that it will admit no delay, then ether Iet Wood ( if Age will beat it ) ur elle give tuine notably cooling medicin:, orrchicth hun with mucfice Au.
1 y But it the Indling of the Wood he weak and full that there is caufe to fear it is not shleto work . Separation as it's wantto be in tuch as have been let bloo:l, or are ist, or Flegmatica of brought los by some other funnets er labour of the ( Courbes ) this. ning of the Ruins, or tome other Evacuation : Intech Calls, Cordiale suche drive the cat , or tl.c; muuil dy.
IG. Intime of diving out the Packs from the Fish. Perc care muft he had that the Prints keepout in a right nature till they have attein'd their cud without going i spam is that is deadly.
11. In this time tane head when the Pufoles appear while not yet ripe, leaf hy too n.t., h heat there arife a new Ebullitsom ( or Feavelith boyling ) for this troubles the dri- ving nut , or brings back the feparated paris ingo the blood, or the Fleshy parts over- heated are difsbled fiom a right fuppuration or laftly the temper ol the blood and tone of the Flethis to perverted char it cannot overconie and digett the matter dinen out
12. Yet on the other hand the freaking out mult not be hundred, by exploring the i fick unto the cold The degree of heat munt be fuch as is natural agrees with the tens. perofile Reihy pht> : That wy .ich eaccess or falls O:ort is dangerous ; Therefore the ical'on ofthe year, Age of the fick, and their manner of life here require a difereet an:) Jullcreas Confideration requiring the Counfel of an expert Phyfitian.
1 3 But it by any error a new Eballisen ardeth, the Line art munt be ufed to allay it av is before copieft.
14.If the Puffter go io and a flux of the belly follows (for elfe there is no fuch danger) then Cordiali are to be ufed, yet moderate and ant too often for fear of new Ebullan. 15 If much fpitting ( Pryah(mw) follow you may hope all will go well, therefore by no means hinder ir : Only with warm fmull Beer ler their mouths he wathed.
10. When the Puffhrare dryed and fallen.purge well, efpecially if it be in Aatame. 17 As foon as this dilcate therefore appears by its figns, let the fick abAcin from Fleth and Wine, and open Air, let him ufc final! Bear warwej with a Toft for his ordi- tary drink, and moderately when he desires it. For food ufe water-grund, water-put- late, and other things having no manifeft lot quality, cafy of digeftion, boild Apples, and milk forvetines for change, but the coldnefs taken off. Let the ufe of his bes be according to the feafon ol the year, and the multirude ofthe Packr, or as found perfons
aic wort. In Summer let him rife according to cuftome, yet to as to be defended both from hear and cold in Excess, the difcafe will be ibe fooner over and iets troublefour, for being kept in bed nouritheth the Feavertfh heat and makesthe Park, break ou: with a painful inflamation.
19. la a colder feafon an i breaking lonh of a multitude of Pu.later, forcing the fu k to keep his bed, let huu be covered according to hi, cuftonic in licafib a inoderate fire in the water being kindled in his Chamber. morning and Evening . nether need he keephis Alan always in fed, as ly fill in the fame place, for at least he Should fwcat wlunch h very dangerous cipecully to youth.
20 Before the tough day ute no medinner to drive our, norte too flich with the fak; for by how much the more gently the Paffuler do grow, ly to musch the fuller and perlefter will the Separation be.
21. Ou the fourthi ay a gentle Cord-'n_y h.Ip once given.
21, From that time a fiveall draught of warm milk ( rot het : 2 la.le d; 'd with Sa". tre. may be given norning and evening till the PaAshi are connie to that: due greatnet's and riponch
23 When the Pafaks begin to dry and cruft leaf the rotten vapour, Strike inward which fometimes caufeth fulden death; Tase morning and evening tome remperate Cordial as four or five Spoonfuls of Malato wine tinged with a little Jaf. ...
24. When the PaPales are dryd and fallen off, purge once and again, effecially ir. the Autumn Ports.
25. Beware of anointing with Oils, Fatti, Oretweets, and fuch defulives, for keep. ing the corrupted matter in the I's tales from drying up,by themoisture they tre! d'es ?. er into the Fleth, and to make the more deep Sierry.
26. the young and lovely men that are brought to a pleantal threat inten faire", about the eighth day the five st ftops of it felf, by no means afterwards tobe 'In our again, the tick theicepun feels ruoft troublewoude diceft an.1 anguift, and then itake> sundance of water and fu dyes
Few young men and Wrong thu, handled cfcapc, acept:hey fall into abun.daske of fpitting or pler dulbleeding at the note.
27. Signs dilcovering the a fault at tint ate beating pain in the head Forehead and temples, pain in the back, great theepinch, gliftring of the eyes, lining glimmering, fern before thedi itching ofthem alto with tean flowing of then:felses, itching ot tl.c Nofe, Chort hreatb, dry Cough, of necting, hoartene's, heat vedne's, an i lente et pricking over the whole body, terrors.in the Bleep borrow and leftletinef., beating of the heart, C'nin fomctanes as in health, foractime filthy from grest Ebalines, and all this or ura- ny ofthele with a Ecaverdb diftemper
23. Sign waro,ng otthe probable L'vent. If they break forth caddy, quickly, and. fooncometo tipenm; , 1 the Symptoon's be gentle, the Feaver mild, and after the healing touch it abats If the voice be free, andbreathing eafic, especially if the for beres whue diftines, foft few, round, fharp top'd only without anJ not in the ut ward parts; if there be large bleeding at the note. Thefe fight ate hopeful
2y. Buc Tsch figns are doubtful, when they difficultly appeat, when they fink in a. gain when they are black, hlewith, green. hard, all in one, if the Feaver abato not with their breaking forth ifthere be S sooning, difficulty ot hreaching, great thinft, quintey, great un juictnet, and it isvery dangerous, if there be soyn'd with it fome other malig. nant Feaver, called by tonie the pritilentul Por the Spotted Fester is oft joyned with it. 30 Deadly Signs ifthe Fler of the Bells happen, whenthey are broke forth, ifthe Urinebe bloody, or hluch,or the Or dere of that Colour; Or il pure blood be caft out by the Belly or Guinus: Thefe Signs ate for the :noft part deadly.
These things tave I weinen Candid Reader, not to inform the Learned Physician sbar bush much more caule to under land oba pertains es sou difeats than I, but to give fome light to shops thus have was (web a ivantage, having the difficulty of this difrais is the Physicians Ars, wyfirm , and Forbiwines: for the right managing of Ikem in the whole Course of It's defeats reads barn so she Patients forary, and the Physicians difined Success is bis diinfracions: For a var ste Physicians Are employed, if by our wahr a Regular Regimens. I am, though ". Physician, per a will wider to the fik: Assofor increasing the Lord to barn our hearts, and pay the band, I am
A Friend, Reader to thy Welfare,
21. 11, 1672.
Thomas Thacber.
BOSTON. Princed and Toldby John Fiter. 1677.
First Medical Publication in British America
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Che Redeemed Captibe, Returning to ZION.
A Faithful HISTORY OF Remarkable Dccurrentes, IN THE
Laptibity AND THE
Deliverance Mr. John Williams ;
Minifter of the ,Gofpel, in DEERFIELD Who, in the Defolation which befel that Plantation,by an Incurfion of thefrench) & Indians, was by Them carried away, with his Family, and his Neighbourhood, unto .CANADA.
Whereto there is annexed a SERMON Preached by him, upon his RETURN, 2t the Lecture in Boston, Decemb. 5. 1756. On thofe Words, Luk. 8. 29. Return to thine : own Howfe, and few how great Things Wol bath done unto thee.
Boffow in N. E. Printed by B. Greci, for Samuel phillips, at the Brick Shop: 1, 07
First Edition of a Famous Indian Captivity Narrative
FATHER Abraham's SPEECH To a great Number of Peo- ple, at a Vendue of Mer- chant-Goods ;
Introduced to the PUBLICK by
Poor Richard,
A famous PENNSYLVANIA Conjurer, and Almanack-Maker,
In Anfwer to the following QUESTIONS. -
Pray, Father Abraham, what think you of the Times ? Won't thefe heavy Taxes quite ruin the Country ? How fall we be ever able to pay them ? What would you advife us to ?
To which are added, SEVEN curious. PIECES of WRITING
BOSTON, NEW-ENGLAND, Printed and Sold by Benjamin Mecom, at) The NEW PRINTING-OFFICE, . Opposite to the Old-Brick Meeting, near the. Court-Houfe.
NOTE, Very good Allowance to thofe who cake thiem by the Hundred or Dozen, to fell again.
First Separate Edition (1758) of Benjamin Franklin's Poor Richard Sayings
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ספעשיאל אפיעל צו די אידישע וואוטערם פון ווארד 8
אידישע וואוטערם :--.
דיענסטאג דעם 1-טען מאי, 6 אוהר מצרגענם וועלען די פערשיעדענע וואוטינג פּלעטצער איבער גאנץ סטייט אף מצבאטשוסעטם געעפענט ווערען אום אפצוגעבען אונוערע שטימען פאר דעלעגאטען צום קאַנסטיטושיאנאל קאנ- ווענשאָן, דאָם איז איין עלעקשאֶן, וועלבער טרעפט זיך איין מאהל אין 50 יצהר, און דארום איז ער זא וויכטיג!
און יעצט אין דער ציים ווען אויף יענער זייט ים פרעהען זיך אונזערע שוועסטער און ברידער מיט דעם ארונ- טערזעצונג פון ניקאלייקען, און אין דער זעלבער צייט קענען מיר זיך אויך פרעהען דא אויף דער זייט ים אז מיר הצבען דערלעבט צו זיין די יעניגע, וועלכע מיט אונוער וואוט וועלען מיר שיקען דעלעגאַטען אויסצוכעסערען אונזער קאָנ- סטיטושאן, וועלכע וועט זיין פאר דעם וואהל און בעיסטען פאר דאֶם גאנצע פאלק בכלל און די אידען בפרט!
נאַר אֶבער אום דיעזע שמחה זאֵל זיין אין נאַנצען אן ערפאלג איז נויטהיג זיך גום צו בעטראכטען ווער אונוערע דע- לענאטען זצלען זיין, מיר די היברו קאַמיטע, נאבקוקענדיג די רעקארדס פון די קאנדידאטען פון ווארד 8, הצבען מיר אוים- געפונען אז עם איז אונזער פפליכט אלא אידען, און אלם סיטיזענס צו אינדארסירען דעם נאבעלען יונגען הארווארד קאלעדוש-מאז טשארלס פ. קורטידעו זוהן פון דעם געוזעזענעם פעלים קאמישיאֶנער קוירטים אף באָכַטאַן.
מיר אידען גלויבען אז דער עפעל פאלם נים ווייט פון בוים און דערמאהנענדיג זיך אן די צייטעו ווען קוירטיס איז געווען פּאַלים קאָמִישִיאַנער און יעדער איינצעילנער, וועלכער איז נאַר געקומען אין בעריהרונג מיט איהם גיט צו אז אוא נא- בעלער פראגרעסיווער מענש איז ועלטען צו געפינען, און דיעזע אלע מעלות הצט זיין זוהן גע׳ירשנים, ער איז איינער פון די ראדיקאלסטע מענשען וואם עם גיבט נאר, קיין אונטערטייד פון איד און קריסט, ער האֵם עם איכערצייגם ביי יעדער נעלעגענהיים, וואָס ער האט געהאט, אין מיר אפעלירען צו אייך, גיט דיעזען אידען פריינד טשארלעם פ. קוירטים אייער וואוט און דאן וועט איהר זיין זיכער אז איהר האט געטהאן אייער פפליכט פאר זיך ועלבסט און פאר דאם גאנצע אידישע פאלק בכלל.
צום לעצטען ווילען מיר אויך צו אייך אפעלידען וועגען אונוער גרויסען אידישען פילאנטראפיסט אסיסטענט יונייטעד סטייטס טרעזשורער טשארלעם ב. סטרעקער ער איז א דעלעגאט עם-לארדוש, דאם הייסט איבער דער גאנצער סטייט, אין מיר אלם אידען איז אונוער פפליכט צו צייגען די אייניגונג פון אידישען פאלק און וואוטען פאר טשארלעם ב. סטרעקער.
פארגעסט ניט דיענסטאג, דעם 1-טען מאי.
טשארלעם פ. קזירטים, פיר די ווארד דעלעגיישאן טשארלעם בּ. סטרעקער, עט לארדוש
Be Sure and vote for these two men
DELEGATE AT LARGE
CHARLES B. STRECKER X
DELEGATE FROM THIS WARD
CHARLES P. CURTIS, Jr. X
אכמונגספאל, די קאמיטע.
Edward B. Lunn, 53 Grove St. Harry Lepie, 13 Revere St. Abraham Korinsky, 80 Phillips St. Benjamin Lourie, 77a Revere St. Morris Nupol, 33 Anderson St. נ. ב .- די פּצלם זיינען אפען פון 6 אוהר פריה ביז 4 אוהר ביי-טאג.
Martin Lomasney's Successful "Special Appeal to the Jewish Voters from Ward 8," 1917 (Charles P. Curtis Papers )
Publications
PUBLICATIONS
The reputation of the Massachusetts Historical Society as a great publishing organization is securely fixed in the minds of students of American history. Evidence has been given that the Society from its very beginning displayed an interest in making its materials available to the scholarly world through publica- tion. The first volume of Collections, started so bravely in The American Apollo, has since been followed by seventy-eight other volumes containing a vast amount of source materials on various aspects of our history, ranging from the early explorations of America through the first decade of the twentieth century. This series continues, and volumes to contain selections from the pa- pers of Robert Treat Paine and of the Saltonstall family are now in preparation. Five volumes of what we trust will be the defini- tive edition of the papers of the Winthrop family have been is- sued, and more are on the way. We have published ten volumes of Sibley's Harvard Graduates, a series containing biographical sketches of members of the early classes, all but the first three having been prepared by our Sibley Editor, Dr. Clifford K. Ship- ton; and the number of volumes still to come stretches out end- lessly. This major publication reflects great credit on the Society, and it is pleasant to record that Dr. Shipton's brilliant work was called to the attention of the general public recently in an article in the June, 1958, issue of American Heritage.
Since the original printed volumes of the Journals of the House of Representatives of Massachusetts for the years 1715-1776 are now extremely scarce and difficult to come by, the Society under- took many years ago to issue a reprint series. Thus far thirty- three volumes have appeared covering the period 1715-1756. The M.H.S. Miscellany is an occasional publication of the So- ciety available on request that serves as a medium for printing certain outstanding documents and lists that warrant immediate publicity. Five numbers have appeared. The Picture Book in your hands is the sixth in an annual series begun in 1954 to call at- tention to certain aspects of the Society's holdings. In addition to the foregoing, the Society has issued more than twenty special publications, the most notable of which was The Education of Henry Adams; also photostat reproductions of 430 rare pam-
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phlets garnered from libraries all over the world in its series Photostat Americana; and similar reproductions of such rare newspaper files as the Boston News-Letter, the Georgia Gazette, and the Virginia Gazette.
Mention has been made of the gift of the great collection of Adams Papers to the Society in 1956. A microfilm edition of this collection is about to be completed and copies of the final section sent to subscribing research libraries on both sides of the Atlan- tic. The first volumes of a comprehensive letterpress edition of the Adams Papers are scheduled for publication in 1960. This edition is being issued under the supervision of the Society and under the editorship of Lyman H. Butterfield. Time, Inc. has made this possible by subscribing $250,000 to the project, and Harvard University Press over its new Belknap Press imprint has assured the publication of the series.
The seventy-first volume of the Society's Proceedings is sched- uled to appear this year. This series contains records of meet- ings, papers, and documentary articles of first importance. In no other publication of the Society can its history be so clearly traced. When the long overdue history of the Massachusetts Historical Society is written, the author will find within these soberly bound volumes some delightful surprises-see James Russell Lowell's communication in Proceedings, 2nd Ser., XI (1896-97), 208- 209-for the Membership had more than its share of strong- minded men who did not hesitate to express themselves not only on the pressing problems of their day but sometimes also on the vagaries of human life.
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20 Jard 1915
1603 H STREET
Dear Charles
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C labor and experiment, for reasons that you know the idea of publication was abandoned in 1912.
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Beyond recovery. de do not emploise they do any harm, wit hey are only an in. compare experiment which shall never finish .. none remain to distribute.
is a member of the delist. Body. I did , however, give a copy to your Library, the only way. I think necessite to the public.
will accept this excuse, since, after all the Lime
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Henry Adams to his Brother Charles On the Private Edition of his Education (Adams Papers, Fourth Generation )
The Society's Future Role
THE SOCIETY'S FUTURE ROLE
After an existence of more than a century and a half the So- ciety finds itself in a position greatly changed from 1791. It is now only one of a group of specialized libraries and museums in Metropolitan Boston. Many of the functions that are ordinarily discharged by historical societies in other parts of the country have been assumed in this area by neighboring institutions. In Boston alone there is a genealogical society; a great public library and a famous proprietary library, both with important special collections; a society devoted to New England antiquities and the preservation of historic houses; a magnificent museum with rich holdings of American paintings, silver, and furniture; a society with a museum devoted to the history of the City of Boston; and a half-dozen other learned societies. Within a forty-five mile ra- dius, there are such well-known libraries as Harvard's Houghton and Widener, the John Carter Brown, the American Antiquarian Society, and the Essex Institute and the Peabody Museum of Sa- lem. In this setting the Society feels that it can make its greatest contribution by continuing to serve as a research institution de- voting its attention to the collection of historical manuscripts and books in its special field, bringing minds capable of exploiting and interpreting these primary sources into contact with them, and publishing or arranging the publication of the results. It does not and should not compete with the long-established programs of nearby institutions. Nor does it or should it pursue a program of popular education, with such attendant features as news stories, lecture series, and radio broadcasts. It will concentrate rather on furthering the kind of basic research that leads to a deeper and truer understanding of our past.
While the calls on the Society's small staff and large holdings are heavy and continuous, they are always welcome. Generations of scholars and professional writers from the greenest beginner to the most seasoned veteran have come to know and respect the Society's co-operative attitude and have sought to express their appreciation in many ways. It would be difficult indeed to find any major printed work dealing with the history of this area that does not bear testimony in its footnotes or in its prefatory
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Although the value of the Society's collections is too great to be estimated, its physical plant is far from ideal. The present build- ing is handsome and pleasant to work in, but there is a definite shortage of both office and book space. In the preliminary plan- ning for the building in the 1890's provision was made for a large bookstack area, but this was later eliminated because of unfore- seen economic changes. Since then* the pressure for more space has increased steadily as the building has been put to greater use. For the past year Committees on the Library, House, and Mu- seum have been busy surveying the building in the hope that cer- tain improvements can be effected that will make it both more usable for its collections and more attractive to its visitors. There is every prospect that this can be done and that in the near future our services can be expanded.
Since the Massachusetts Historical Society is a private organi- zation, almost completely dependent upon the income of a modest endowment-all Membership dues were abolished in 1907- the road ahead may not be an easy one. Yet the loyal support of our Members and friends fortifies us in our belief that the So- ciety's contribution to American historical scholarship will be even greater in the future than it has been in the past.
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