most conuenient when the first and second digestion is complete as well in the stomacke as in the vaines But in such a time of infection as this is I cannot commend exercise because it will too much open the pores and the pores being opened the bodie is apt to receiue the infectious aire Much more would I say of the benefit of exercise and the inconuenience of idlenesse but that I should be ouer-tedious in this place Of fulnesse and emptinesse All fulnesse and superfluitie of meates are to be eschued for as much as they make repletion And all bodies in whom there is repletion are apt to bee infected And such bodies must endeuour to kéepe themselues soluble All euacuations are good for them as purging and bléeding except some speciall cause doth forbid it And let them vse a sparing and frugall diet And they may safely and with great profit vse the pill I haue set downe before in my booke And as I haue said repletion is an enemie vnto health bringing and begetting sicknesse and sometime sodaine death so is too much fasting and emptinesse no lesse hurtfull it weakeneth the braine and drieth the whole bodie consuming the radicall moisture in man and shorteneth life And as repletion is to be abhorred and auoided so is too much emptinesse to be eschewed and as I haue said we must vse a mediocritie in all things Of affections of the mind Affections of the mind are called by M. Cicero Perturbations Galen calleth them Pathemata vel affectus anims and nothing is more hurtfull in this time of sicknesse nor greater enemie vnto life then feare sorrow anger heauinesse and griefe of mind Anger is a dangerous passion it chafeth the bloud and disquieteth the heart it inflameth the spirits which ascending vp into the head annoieth the animall powers or faculties This passion cholericke persons tyrants and fooles are much troubled withall and oftentimes in their wrath perform wicked and vnlawfull actions Feare sorrow and griefe of mind are no lesse hurtfull vnto the body for they waste the naturall heat and moisture wherein life consisteth making the bodie leane and drie whereupon consumption followesh it dulleth the wit and vnderstanding and draweth the spirits and bloud inward to the heart and withall attracteth the venemous and infectious aire if we liue within the compasse thereof If I should here stand to write of all the perturbations for the mind defining and distinguishing them one from another shewing the wonderfull effects of them and the inconuenience therof I should be ouer tedious in this short Treatise and it might seeme impertinent in this worke onely this I wish thée to remember Sub te erit appetitus tuus tudominaberis illi Vnder thée shall be thine appetite and thou shalt beare rule ouer it saith the Lord. We must therefore maister our affections for if they be not ouer-ruled and gouerned by wisedome they will excéede and proue daungerous enimies both vnto soule and bodie And in this time of sicknes we ought specially to auoid these perturbations of the mind and to vse all vertuous and commendable mirth swéete musicke good companie and all laudable recreation that may delight you and vse the perfumes in your chambers and in other roomes of your houses that I haue set downe being cast into a fuming pot or chafing dish vpon a few coales Do this euening and morning the charge thereof is small but the vtilitie is great It purgeth the aire and taketh away the euill qualitie thereof Now hauing shewed what ought to be auoided it followeth that I set downe preseruatiues that may resist all infection which God assisting me I will do First of all I counsell all men in whom bloud doth abound the which they may easily know themselues by the heate of their bodies colour largenesse and fulnesse of their vaines that they be let bloud in the liuer vaine in the right arme and let the quantitie be according vnto the strength of the person Also that all men in generall auoid all bathes and hote-houses and all vehement exercise that may ouerheate the body and inflame the bloud Also the companie of women this hote and contagious time is verie hurtfull and therefore ought to be vsed with great moderation Also walking verie early in a morning and verie late in the euening is hurtfull and dangerous Also auoide all prease and throng of people where a multitude are assembled al noisome vnsauourie places Now hauing shewed all the causes of the pestilence and set downe the cure and remedie for euerie cause I will by Gods assistance for the care I haue of the preseruation of the inhabitants of this honorable citie and for the loue I beare vnto them and my countrie communicate vnto them most excellent and approued preseruatiues and of singular vertue which whose vseth them shall not néed to feare the infection of this contagious sicknes First with an humble and contrite heart desire mercie of the Lord and then commend thy selfe vnto his protection which being done vse the good meanes he hath ordained for thy health Pilles of especiall vertue in preseruing all that vse them R. Good Aloes half an ounce washed in rosewater of good myrrhe of saffron of each two drams bolearmoniac praep one scruple seed pearle one scruple sir of limons as much as wil suffice to make them in pilles or in a masse Take halfe a dramme hereof made in pilles euerie second or third day in the morning faste after it thrée or foure houres but it shall be good for you to take a little thinne broth or a little alebrue or sixe or eight spoonefuls of wine within an houre after and vse your accustomed diet as before Another pill that doth more moue the bodie and giueth two stooles or three in some bodies and this is good for such as are costiue and in whom humours abound R. Good Rubarbe chosen myrrhe of each one dram chosen aloes two drams zedoarie roote one scruple saffron one scruple sirrup of Roses solutiue as much as will suffice to make the masse This pill purgeth gently and preserueth the bodie from all infection Such bodies in whom humours doe abound and are most commonly costiue may vse these pilles taking half a dram euerie morning for thrée foure fiue or sixe dayes together as they please Take after it either a little thin broth or of an alebrue or a draught of wine if it bée not too hote for your complexion and vse your ordinarie diet as accustomed if it be good Another very good Preseruatiue and worthy of much commendations R. Of good Mithridatum halfe an ounce Angelica root in powder two drams of Theriaca andro half an ounce Bolearmoniac praep two drams conserues of Roses and Borage halfe an ounce seede of Citrons two scruples sirup of Limons one ounce mix them make halfe this receite Or this which is very good R. Good Mithridatum halfe an ounce Conserues of Roses halfe an ounce
good remedie as we see dayly death followeth Now it followeth that I teach the way or meanes to cure such in whom the botch appeareth which God assisting me I will doe The way or meanes to cure such in whom the botch appeareth This sicknesse the pestilence is a fierce swift and dangerous disease and verie quickly destroyeth nature therefore I counsell all men againe to vse at the first some spéedie helpe for giuing it sufferance but a little time it resisteth all cure neither is it in humaine power to helpe it as we dayly see Héere I cannot but lament the follie of manie people who neglect the vse of good means in time Some foolishly conceited that physicke can do them no good Some other vsing some light and trifling medicine to no purpose some other vsing none at all standing vnto the mercy of the sicknesse which is mercilesse and thus manie perish daily not perish neither therein I saide not well Beati mortui qui in domino moriuntur Blessed are the dead that die in the Lord. God giue vnto vs his grace that wee may learne to contemne this vaine world and be ready when he doth call and while we liue here to vse thankfully his good creatures vnto his glory and our comfort Now vnto the cure of the pestilence which is my purpose When any person féeleth himself infected and that the sore beginneth to arise or appeare if the sicknesse begin hote and that he feeleth in himselfe anie great heate aboue nature being of a sanguine or cholericke complexion strong and bloud any thing abounding then would I haue that person with spéede let bloud if it be within twentie foure houres of his sickening and that the sore or botch be not yet in way of ripening but newly risen For you must note that blood is to be taken at the beginning of the sicknesse and before the botch be growing to suppuration or not at all For at this time the botch hauing béene forth and growing to suppuration you should greatly hinder nature and weaken the person and indanger his life But in the beginning of the sicknesse it is a speciall good thing in all persons in whom bloud doth abound But these persons I doe except women with child or lately deliuered old men that grow towards thréescore and children also weake féeble persons wherin is Cacochymia and little bloud these persons may not bléed but must receiue some medicine before set downe for the cure of the pestilence and sweate therwith and take cordials as I will shew them But such as may bléede must obserue this rule in bléeding according vnto the place where the sore or botch is placed or appearing If the sore or botch appeare in the throate necke or vnder the eares then open the head vaine Cephalica in the arme on that side whereon the sore or botch is And if the sore or botch arise in the armepit then open the vaine mediana which is betwéene the head vaine and the vaine comming from the liuer If the sore or botch arise in the flancke then open the vaine Saphena in the inner side of the foote alway remembring this note that you let blood on that side whereon the botch appeareth For on the contrary side it is dangerous and euill drawing the venome ouerthwart the spiritual members to the great danger of the patient The quantity must be according vnto the strength of the patient in those that be young strong and full of bloud it is good to take much away and in others according vnto their abilitie of body And in this time of necessitie when it may not be deferd you must neither regard time neither signe nor aspect or coniunction of Planets but in the name of God do it Quouis tempore hora mittere sanguinem necessitas concedit iubet two houres delay in bléeding may be the cause of death This being done or not done in those persons aboue named who may not bléede let there be giuen vnto the sicke person of one of the medicines set downe for the cure of the plague before in this booke and procure the sicke to sweate well which if they cannot spéedily do then you may vse the meanes before taught with bottles whereby a sweate shall spéedily be brought forth and let the patient endure it as long as he is able And remember that you kéepe the sicke from sléepe in his sweat and fiue or sixe houres after if he be very faint giue him of one of the cordiall confections to eate of sometime and if he be so thirstie that hee must néedes drinke then giue him of the sirrup set downe in this booke for that purpose But you ought not in any wise to giue him drinke after his medicine vntill he hath sweat well and that which you giue him must bee warme and comfortable And hauing sweat well dry his body with warme and soft clothes and so let him rest kéeping him from sléepe Within two houres giue him some good broth to eat made with a chicken in which broth boile a little whole mace dates raisins of the sunne Endiue Borage Buglosse rings or some péeces of gold Let him haue oftentimes to eate of one of the cordiall confections set down in this booke and let his drinke be the first day Betonie water Scabious and Borage water of each of them halfe a pinte boiled a little with sugar and whole mace After you may giue him ale if not strong boiled with Mace and sugar Let his meate be chickens capon rabbet yong mutton or veale and let him vse orenges limons pomegranets graines of paradise and all thing that doth comfort the heart and coole You must perfume the chamber oftentimes in the day with the perfumes set downe in this booke which will purge the aire of the chamber and sprinkle the floore of the chamber with good vinegar and giue him to smell vnto oftentimes a cloth wet in rose vinegar Now must the sore or botch be looked vnto And to ripen and bring it to suppuration you shall find medicines set downe in this booke If the sore do arise néere the heart I haue set downe meanes to defend the heart and to drawe the sore or botch further off or if the botch appeare in the throte then likwise draw it further for feare of suffocation or choking the patient If watching or rauing trouble him I haue set downe meanes to helpe it If thirst and drinesse vexe him I haue set downe comfortable sirrupes to remedie it or whatsoeuer he shall néed in this cure if aduisedly you follow my direction The patient ought to change his chamber sometimes and to vse often the perfumes before set down and to kéepe the house all the time of his sicknes vntill his sore be well changing himselfe in fresh apparell well aired and persumed before And those that are about him must haue care of themselues and eate daily
néede to be taught my self then able to instruct others The cure of the soule belongeth vnto them and thē cure of the body vnto me I will now hasten vnto the second cause which is the corruption of the aire I haue shewed before all the causes that may corrupt the aire it followeth now that I teach the correction purging and altring of the aire corrupted which is the second cause of the pestilence And first I would counsel you that al the stréetes lanes and allies be kept cleane and swéete as possible may bée not suffering the filth and swéepings to lie on heapes as it dooth especiallie in the suburbes but to be caried awaie more spéedily for the uncleane kéeping of the stréetes yéelding as it dooth noisome and vnsauory smelles is a meanes to increase the corruption of the aire and giueth great strength vnto the pestilence Also that al the pondes pooles ditches about the City if they yéeld any stinking and noisom smels that they be scoured and clensed for there ariseth from them an euill and vnholesome aire which furthereth the corruption of the aire and worse will do in hotter weather Also that you suffer no mixsons to be made so néere vnto the Citie as they are but to be caried far off neither any dead carion to lie vnburied as I haue séene but to be caried forth and buried déepe Also that euerie Euening you make small and light fiers with Oken wood in those stréets where the infection is either two or thrée fiers according vnto the length of the stréete or place infected the wood being consumed cast in some stickes of Iuniper and therewithall two thrée or foure rowles of perfume that I haue here set downe in my booke which I would wish were vsed through the whole Citie in your chambers and houses cast in vpon some coles in a chafingdish or fuming pot in the Morning and Euening This fumigation hath a most excellent and singular propertie to purge and alter a corrupt and vnholsome aire But peraduenture some men for want of Iudgement wil think this my direction ouer curious of small validity but I do and will affirme that the vse thereof is very requisite and of great force vtility and the best meanes for the purging and altering the euill qualitie of the aire that is knowne vnto man This fumigatiō is to be vsed where the infection is in the euening and also in the morning is of great force for the purging of the aire and altering the euill qualitie thereof which I wish were dayly vsed through the Citie in their houses and chambers for the excellent vertue thereof R. Storax Calamint Labdanum Cypresse-wood Myrrhe Beniamin Yellow Sanders Ireos red Roseleaues Flowers of Nenuphar of each one ounce liquid Storax one ounce Cloues one ounce Turpentine one ounce Withy cole fiue ounces Rose-water as much as wil be sufficient to make them vp in trochis let them be two drams in weight The wood béeing consumed cast in some stickes of Iuniper and after it cast in two or thrée of these trochis which will yéelde a comfortable smell and purge the aire Another more swéete and delectable for the better sort to vse in their houses and chambers dailie R. Storax Calamint Labdanum Cypresse-wood Frankēcense Beniamin of each of thē half an ounce red Roseleaues dried yellow Sanders of each two drams Cinamon Cloues wood of Aloes of each of them one dramme flowers of Nenuphar one dram liquid Storax halfe an ounce gum Dragagant two drams and muske six graines Withy cole three ounces Rose Water as much as will suffice to make it vp in Trochis This I would counsell Gentlemen and Citizens to vse dayly in their houses and chambers for the excellent operation it hath Also it is good for want of these to burn in your houses and chambers Iuniper Frankincense Storax Baylaues Marierom Rose marie Lauender and such like Now hauing shewed the remedies for the two first causes it followeth that I teach the cure of the third and last cause which is the euill disposition of the body through superfluous corrupt and euill humors abounding Here is the cause and these corrupt and superfluous humors must be taken away before the body can bée in any good estate of health And this is the reason that diuers persons liuing together in one aire that one is infected and not another namely the disposition of the body for those naughtie corrupt superfluous humors are of themselues apt and disposed vnto putrefaction and if it so chance that they do putrefie of themselues then there arise dangerous feuers according vnto the nature of the humor that corrupteth As for example If choler do putrifie within the vesselles it ingendreth febris ardens or febris causon a hot and a dangerous feuer working his malice in the concauitie of the liuer and lunges and about the heart except remedy be administred the person dieth And so when any of the other humors doe putrefie there springe feuers according vnto their nature as the learned knowe Now such bodies I say wherein there is such superfluous humors abounding in the time of any infection receiuing into their bodies the corrupt and venemous aire are thereby infected And these humors turned not only into putrefaction but into a venemous qualitie by the operation of the infectious aire Whereas in bodies voide and frée from such superfluous humors there the infectious aire hath not such matter to worke vpon and againe nature is more strong and forcible to resist and expell a corrupt and infectious aire although receiued Here the reason is apparant why one person is infected and not another And very niedfull it is especiallie in this time of sicknesse that this euill disposition of the body be taken away and amended by purging and euacuating of the perccant humors For which purpose I wil set down a very excellent and approued potion which purgeth the blood and disburdeneth the body of superfluous humors both choler flegme and melancholie opening attracting and euacuating the corrupt and vitious humors of the body to the great comfort helpe and ease of those that vse it with discretion as I shall direct them the making or composition whereof I haue here set downe But first taking this sirrup thrée morninges before you purge two spoonefuls euerie morning fasting after it two or thrée houres and vse your accustomed diet as before R. Oximell two ounces sir de quinque radicibus two ounces misce R. Good Rubarbe two drammes spicknarde six graines Sene halfe an ounce Fenill seede and annisseede of each halfe a dramme flowers of Borage and buglosse of each halfe a little handfull Water of Endiue and fumitarie of each of them fiue ounces and so make your infusion Let this infusion be made in some earthen stupot close couered and paasted that no breath or vapor goe forth and let it stand seuen or eight howers vpon some imbers