stinking things to remain in or about the same and in summer season to deck your windowes and strow your floors with sweet and wholsom hearbs floures and leaves of Mints Balme Penniroyall Lavender Time Majoram red-Roses Carnations Gelliflowers and such like for your windowes your floors to be strowed with green Rushes and Mints Oaken and Willow leaves Vine leaves and such like your windowes which stand towards the North and East do you alwaies keep open in the day time if the ayre be clear and that no infected and unsavory smell be near the same as Fogs dunghils c. and every morning before you open either your doors or windowes as also in the evening when you go to bed cause a good fire to be made in your Chamber and burn some odoriferous or sweet perfumes in the middest thereof as hereafter I will shew you or in stead thereof some Juniper Frankincense Bay leaves Rosemary Lavender Majoram or such like which you must alwaies have dried in a readinesse and so in the fume or smoke thereof to breath and perfume the clothes which you are to weare A good perfume in summer season â„ž Rose water and Vinegar of either six spoonfulls Rinds of sower Citrons and Lemons Bay-leaves of either the weight of two pence which is ℈ i. Camphire the weight of three pence which is 3. ss The hearbs and rinds must be dried and put alltogether in a perfuming pan or instead thereof a peuter dish set on a chafer of coles will serve the turn Another good perfume in winter â„ž Red-Roses Majoram and Myrtles of either a little handfull Callamint Juniper berries Iâ—audanum Benjamin Frankincense of either Ê’ i. which is the weight of seven pence The hearbs berries and Roses being dried must be made in grosse powder as also the gumms and so mixed together and when yee list cast some part there of on a chafer of coales and receive the fume thereof CHAP. V. NOw having received the fume as aforesaid before you go forth of your chamber eat some Cordial electuary or preservative as hereafter you shall find choise which I have alwais used with good and happy success after taking of the Cordial wash your face and hands with clean water wherein you must put a little Vinegar and then if you list you may break your fast with some good bread and butter and in winter season a potch'd Egg is good eaten with some Vinegar and for plethorick and melanchole bodies it were good to drink a draught of wormewood wine in the morning fasting because it resisteth putrefaction in the plethorick and purgeth bilous matter in the melancholie An excellent good preservative which I have alwaies used with good successe â„ž Conserve of Roses and Borrage floures of either two ounces Minardus Mithridate Andromachus triacle of either half an ounce Dioscordium two drachms Dialkermes one drachme Powder of the seed of Citrons pilled one drachme Sirrup of Lemons and sower Citrons of either halfe an ounce Compound all these together in the form of an opiat you may eat hereof every morning the quantity of three beanes and drink a draught of Rennish wine Beer or Ale after it but for Children and such as are of tender years so much as a bean thereof is sufficient and give them onely Beer or Ale after it the taking hereof every second or third day will suffice if you go not into any suspected company Another excellent good preservative â„ž Kernils of Wallnuts and Figs of either four ounces Leaves of Rue one ounce and half Tormentill roots four drachms Rind of sowr Citrons one drachme right Bolarmoniak six drachms fine Myrrh two scruples Saffron one scruple Salt half a drachm Sirrup of Citrons and Lemons four ounces The hearbs roots and rinds must be dried the nuts must be blanched and the bolarmoniack must be made in fine powder and then wash'd in the water of Scabios and dried againe you must pound the figgs and wallnuts in a stone morter severally by themselves very small all the rest must be made in fine powder and so mix them altogether in the morter and then add thereto sirrup by little and little and so incorporate them altogether you may give this in the same quantity and in like sort as the other before Another very good â„ž Of the confection aforesaid made with Nutts â„¥ iiii Minardus mithridate four drachms Andromachus Triacle Ê’ ii fine terra Sigillata four scruples Sirrup of Limons â„¥ i. Compound all these together in the morter as the other before you may give hereof the weight of a groat or six pence every second or third day and drink a draught of Rennish or white wine after it in Winter season but in the heat of the yeer Sorrel water is best and in the Spring Scabios or Carduus Benedictus water Also so much Triacle of Andromachus description eaten every morning as a bean with a little conserve of Roses is a very excellent good preservative Valetius doth greatly commend the taking of three or four grains of the Bezar stone every morning in a spoonfull of Scabios water I cannot here sufficiently commend the Electuarie called Dioscordium which is not onely good to resist the infection but doth also expell the venemous matter of those which are infected being taken every morning and evening the quantity of a bean and drinke a draught of Rennish or White wine after it in winter season but in Summer a draught of Beer or Ale is best In strong and rusticall bodies and such as are dayly labourers Garlick onely eaten in the morning with some Butter and Salt at breakfast drinking a cup of beer or ale after it hath been found to be very good which is greatly commended by Galen who calleth it the poor mans Triacle but in the sanguine daintie and idle bodies it may not be used because it over-heateth the bloud causeth head-ach and universally inflameth the whole body CHAP. VI. NOw when you have taken any of the foresaid Preservatives it were good and necessary to wear upon the Region of the heart some sweet Bag or quilt that hath power to resist venome and also to carry in your hand some sweet Pomander Nodule or Nosegay that will comfort the heart resist venom and recreate the vitall spirits as here following is specified and set down An excellent quilt or Bag. â„ž Arsenike cristaline â„¥ i. Diamargaritum frigidum ℈ ii Diambrae ℈ i. You must grinde the Arsenike in small powder and then with some of the infusion of Gum Dragagant in Rose water you must make a paste then spread it on a cloth which must be six inches long and five inches broad and spread it thick then cover it with another cloth and so quilt it together which being done fasten it in another bag of crimson taffetie or Sarsenet and so wear it against the heart all the day time but at night leave it off and here you must take heed that when you sweat you doe take
many other symptoms which do happen in this contagious disease which would be too tedious to declare but these as the chiefest may suffice The end of the first Treatise The Second Treatise shewing the meanes how to cure the Plague CHAP. I. VVHen we perceive any to be infected with this contagious disease we must with all possible speed seek all the meanes we can how to prevent the malignity thereof whose property is at the first to assault the principall part which is the heart and therefore requires present help for unlesse something be done within eight or four and twenty houres little will it then prevail to attempt it for by that time nature is either subdued and clean overthrown or else hath thrust the same to the exterior parts or otherwise digested it yet may we not neglect at any time to use all the meanes we can in helping and furthering of nature to the uttermost of our indeavour because we doe oftentimes see nature so wearied and weakened in expelling of this venemous matter that unlesse some help be added to assist and comfort her the party for lack thereof dyeth which otherwise might be saved For I have oftentimes seen by diligent helping of nature that to be effected and brought to good passe which I have judged most desperate There are foure intentions required for the curing thereof that is by bloud-letting Cordials sweat and purging but the manner how to execute the same hath bred great contention both amongst the old and later Writers which here to treat of were too tedious for unto the learned it were needlesse and for the commonalty little would it availe them therefore in breif will I shew you what I have observed touching the cure First if it be in a Plethorick sanguine and strong body and hath pain in the head great heat at the heart thirstnesse the pulse strong and labouring or beating strongly and hath great and large veines appearing these ought presently to be let bloud in that side where yee perceive the greif doth proffer it selfe to come forth and not visibly appearing tending to maturation For then we may not draw bloud but use all other meanes we can devise in helping nature to expell it neither may you draw bloud if the party have a flix or lask which is an evill sign in the beginning of the disease for by that meanes you shall hinder nature greatly but onely give the party Cordials neither may you stop the flix in the beginning but if it be extream and that it stay not the second day then must you give some purgation which may leave an astringency behind it as hereafter in the cure of the flix shall be shewed For as Hyppocrates in his first book and one and twentieth Aphorisme doth admonish us we must consider and mark how nature doth incline her self for that will teach us what we are to doe Now if you perceive the botch or carbunkle to appear underneath the chin about the throat then presently draw bloud in both veines under the tongue and immediately after that apply a cupping glasse with scarification in one side of the neck next unto the sore thereby to draw it from the throat for fear least suddenly it choke him up and then apply Chickens rumps or Hens rumps to the botch the feathers being first pluckt away from the rump and a grain of Salt put into the tewell and so hold the bare place to the greif untill the Chicken die which will be within half an hour and then apply another and so continue in changing them so long as they doe die and lastly apply a mollificative Cataplasme or plaister to the same place as in the fift Chapter following is shewed which is made with Vnguentum basillicon and to the botch apply the Epithemation and Cataplasme in the seventh Chapter following But if it be in the neck he doth complain then let him bloud in the Cephallica vein in the arm of the same side where he complaineth If in the groin or flanke he doth complain then let him bloud in the foot on the same side and open the vein called Maleola or Saphena the quantity must be according as the age and strength of the party requireth but at most draw not above six or eight ounces For Avicen willeth us to preserve bloud as the treasure of nature But in a weak spare and cachochimious body as Galen teacheth us we may not draw bloud at all for thereby should you greatly indanger the Patient but help such by Cordials and sweat And here you shall understand that unlesse Phlebotomy be done at the first that is within six or eight houres at most it will be too late to attempt it neither may you doe it if the sore doe appear up in height tending to suppuration for then should you hinder nature which like a diligent workman hath discharged and thrust forth that venomous matter which otherwise would have killed us And here touching Phlebotomy or bloud-letting you must have this speciall care that you draw not bloud on the opposite side as if it be on the left side the sore appear then draw not bloud on the right side if it appear in the flanke then draw not bloud in the arme but in the foot for otherwise you shall draw that venomous matter from the ignoble unto the noble parts and so kill the body And although the party complain not more in the one side then the other yet by the pulse shall you perceive on which side the venome lieth hidden for on that side where nature is opprest there shall you find the pulse more weak feeble and uneven greatly differing from the other side And here you shall understand that in some it hath been seen that nature of it self at the first hath thrust out that venomous matter in some place of the body with a botch appearing high and tending to suppuration or a carbunckle or spots called purples Now here if you draw bloud you doe then greatly indanger the body but in this case you must onely give Cordials and use all the meanes you can to bring it outward either by maturation or evaporation as hereafter shall be shewed you And here you shall further understand that where the age constitution nor strength of the party will permit that Phlebotomy be done yet for the better help of nature you must apply Ventoses with reasonable deep scarification unto the next place adjoyning where the party complaineth thereby the more speedily to draw the venomous matter unto the superficiall parts and there to apply the rumps of Chickens as before is taught you and so apply to the place some strong maturative and attractive plaister or Cataplasme as hereafter shall be shewed you If the greif be in the head or throte then apply Ventoses to the neck If it be in the emunctuaries of the heart then apply them to the shoulders If in the emunctuaries of the liver then apply them to the
watching mourning sadnesse anger and all other perturbations of the mind Her familiar freinds must present no unwholsome thing to her nor so much as name it least she should desire it and not be able to get it and so minister her an occasion of abortment or the Child carry with it some foule impressions But if she desire chalk clay or coales let beanes boyled with sugar be given unto her or if she cannot get her longing let her presently drink a large draught of pure cold water CHAP. II. Order for the third Moneth BEfore the fourth moneth be ended she must neither be let bloud nor have her body evacuated with any purgative medicine But if too much bloud abound or some incident disease happen which may require evacuation you shall use cupping-glasses with scarification and a little may be drawn from the shoulders and arme especially if she have been formerly accustomed to them CHAP. III. From the fourth Moneth VVHen now the fourth moneth is past bloud-letting and physick is permitted especially if it be gentle and milde such as best may agree with women with child and tender or delicate persons And by Hyppocrates precept may be conceded even untill the seventh moneth CHAP. IIII. From the fifth sixth and seventh Moneth FRom that time forward none of the before mentioned remedies is wont or ought from thence to be used because the Babe being now become greater standeth in need of greater nourishment and bloud and also can bear no commotion of physick Although sometimes I have met with women which have so much abounded with bloud that unlesse they had been let bloud in the second moneth they would have aborted in the third others again unlesse they should attempt the same in the seventh or eight moneth they could not carry their great belly so long or else would be delivered of a dead issue But since these things happen but to few they may not be granted to all but we must provide for every one according to their nature and constitution And this is to be prohibited to all which are with child that they give not way to take any bloud from the ancle bone of the foot during the whole time of the womans going but in stead thereof if the disease so require an ounce of Manna in the broth of a Cock or so much Cassiafistula or of Sirrups made of Damask-roses infused in May dew about the quantity of an ounce with a little water of Cinnamon may safely be taken a little before meat But if the belly be bound onely without any apparent disease the broth of a Chicken or of Veal sodden with Oil or with the decoction of Mallowes or marsh-Mallowes Mercury and Linseed put up in a glister by the lower parts will not be amisse yet in a lesser measure then is wont to be given in other Children to wit of the decoction five ounces of common Oil three ounces of Sugar two ounces of Cassia fistula one ounce But sharper Purgations as also Suppositories made of Honey and Salt are altogether hurtfull to great bellyed women or such as lie in childbed But of fat Pork which they call Lard or the yolks of Eggs without salt Purgations and Glysters are commended But if she will not take a Glyster either for modesty or otherwise because she was not accustomed to take it one or two yolks of new laid Eggs or a few Pease pottage warm with a little salt and sugar supped up a little before meat will be very convenient But if the belly shall be sometimes distended and stretched out with wind a little Fennelseed and Anniseeds reduced into powder and mingled with Honey or with Sugar made after the manner of an Electuary will doe very well But if the thighs and feet swell let them be annointed with Oxphrodinum which is a liquid Medicine made with Vinegar and Rose-water mingled with a little Salt CHAP. V. The eighth Moneth IN the eighth moneth which is usually perillous the better diets rather than plentiest will be most commodious But as they must abate their diet so their bodily exercise must increase And because then women with child by reason of the sharp humours alter the belly are accustomed to weaken both their spirits and strength they may well take before meat an Electuary of Diarrhodon or Aromaticum Rosatum or Diamargariton in the morning before meat and sometimes they may lick a little Honey even as they which loath and nauseate their meat may take green Ginger condited with Sugar or the rindes of Citrons and Oranges condited as also it is usuall sometimes to take specificall Sirrups Moreover let the woman with child often use Honey for the strengthning of the Infant When she is not farre from her labour or bringing forth she shall eat daily seven tosted Figs before meat least the seconds may be bound up but if they shall be restrained and stay firme they may be resolved But the woman with child may not eat salt and powdered meats least the child be born without nails CHAP. VI. In the ninth Moneth IN the ninth moneth being near their time they must not be idle neither sit much nor stoop much nor lie on their sides so that the child may not well turn it self but ought to lie with her face upward neither shall she bend her self much lest the child be infolded and wrapped up in the umbilical ligaments and bonds by which meanes it oftentimes perisheth but she must walk and stirre often and exercise her self rather by going upward than downward Let her use light and easie meats of digestion as damask-Prunes with Sugar or Figs and Raisins before meat and also the yolks of Eggs flesh and broth of Chicken Birds Patridges and Pheasants and Fish living in stony places with good broth And such meats shall not onely be convenient for this moneth but also for the two succeeding moneths that the natural parts by them may be dilated Also astringent meats and roasted meats and also Rise hard Eggs Millet and others of that kind will be very profitable Baths of sweet water with emollient hearbs used with intermission is meet But the hot house which they call a stow is hurtful After the bath let the belly be annointed with oyle of Roses and Violets but the natural parts with the fat of Hens Geese Ducks with oyle of Lillies and the decoction of Linseed and Faenugreek boyled with oyl of Linseed marsh-Mallows grains of Quinces or with this which followeth A Liniment both of them cut and fliced of each one ounce Take of Mallowes Of marsh-Mallowes Of Linseed also one ounce Let them be boiled from twenty ounces of water to ten let them take three ounces of the boiled broth of oyle of Flour-deluce and of Almonds of each one ounce three ounces of Deer suet Bath this from the rest and annoint her with it warm Also they may use for fourteen dayes before the birth morning and evening to bath and moisten the belly with Muscadine
without using any other preservative at all and he hath great reason so to esteem of them for Galen Avicen and all ancient Writers in Physick do hold opinion that Aloes doth not onely comfort but purge the stomack from all raw and chollerick humors and doth also purge and open the veines called Miserayick and resisteth putrefaction Myrrh doth altogether resist neither will it suffer putrefaction in the stomack Saffron doth comfort the heart and hath also a propriety in it to carry any medicine that is given therewith unto the heart but to conclude these Pills will purge all superfluous humors in the stomack and principall members and preserveth the bloud from corruption CHAP. VIII I Must here give you to understand that the infection doth oftentimes lie hidden within us without any manifest sign or knowledge thereof at the first and therefore were it good for sanguine bodies and such as do abound with bloud in the summer season to draw six or eight ounces of bloud out of the Basilica vein in the right arme which is a good meanes to prevent a further danger as Avicen witnesseth but for full and plethorick bodies it were best to purge themselves once in seven or eight daies with some easie and gentle purgation as hereafter I will shew you but for leane and spare bodies once in fourteen dayes will be enough at most for wisely saith Rondoletius that it is not onely the venemous and contagious ayre which we receive that doth kill us but it is the present communicating of that contagion with some superfluous humours in our bodies as in his treatise De Peste appeareth therfore now will I shew you how to purge the body Pills good to purge â„ž Alloes Cicatrine ten drachms Agarick of the whitest â„¥ iiii Myrrh Mastick of either two drachms Saffron two scruples Make these into fine powder then compound them together in a morter with so much Oximell simplex Sirrup of Lemons or of Staecados as shall be sufficient you may give one drachm or a drachm and half of these Pills half an hour before supper but for a cholerick body you must leave out two drachms of the Agarick in making of the receipt and in place thereof add two draâ—hms of Rubarb and for the melancholie two drachms of Epithimum and give the same quantity in weight A good purging potion â„ž Raisins the stones being pickt out and washt of either one ounce Polipode of the Oak Elecampane root dried roots of wild small Sorrel Succory roots cleansed of either half an ounce Leaves of Burrage Bugloss Burnet Scabios Morsus diaboli of either a little handfull Floures of Burrage Bugloss Rosemary Violets Broom of either a little handfull Seeds of Fennell sowr Citrons of either two scruples Shaving of Harts horn half a drachm Boyle all these in a sufficient quantity of faire water untill half be consumed then strain it Take of the decoction aforesaid three ounces Rubarb two drachms and half Cinnamon half a drachm Slice them both and put them with the liquor in a close cup and so let it stand to infuse in a warm place twelve hours then strain it out strongly and add thereto one ounce of the Sirrup of Maiden-haire and so drink it warm in the morning about six of the clock and refrain from meat drink or sleep two hours after it this is good in lean and spare bodies you may for the phlegmatick body add in the infusion one drachm of Aggarick Trosciscated A purging powder for such as cannot take Pills â„ž Alloes Ciccatrine one ounce Myrrh Cinnamon of either two drachms Saffron one scruple Make them all in fine powder and give one drachm in a draught of White-wine Floures stopt how to provok them For that women which have not their naturall course on them are most prone to receive and take the infection I have here set down good Pills which I have alwaies found excellent not onely for that purpose but will also resist the danger of infection â„ž Alloes Ciccatirne one ounce Roots of Gentian Aristolochia rotunda Dittander Saffron of either half a drachm Roots of garden Madder Methridate of either one drachm Cause them all to be ground in small powder then mix it with the Methridate and some sirrup of Artemesia or Mugwort give one drachm of these Pills every morning twelve dayes together or untill her tearms break Issues commended against the Plague IN plethorick and full bodies I have found nothing more safer in the time of the Plague then to make them an artificiall Issue either in the leg or arm for never hitherto have I known any one which hath had an Issue or Ulcer running on him that hath been infected with the plague Palmarius and Forestus doe both affirm it to be true and certain but here some ignorant people doe hold opinion that having once an Issue he must be constrained to keep it alwaies which is most erronious for then those which have had Ulcers running upon them some six ten yea sixteen yeers may not be cured without some Issue to be made in some other place but therein they deceive themselves for my self by good proof have often found the contrary in divers people which I have cured some six some ten yea sixteen yeers past and yet to this day doe remain in perfect good health without any Issues CHAP. IX What Diet we ought to keep FOr our diet as Hippocrates teacheth us we must have a care not to exceed in eating and drinking but to keep a mean therein and in any case to beware of surfeting and drunkenness which are enemies both to the body and soule but as we may not exceed in eating and drinking so to endure great hunger and thirst is most dangerous our meat ought to be of a facile and easie digestion partly tending to a drying qualitie as Cocks Capons Hens Pullets Partridge Pheasants Quailes Pigeons Rabbets Kid Veal Mutton Birds of the Mountains and such like but Beef Pork Venison Hare and Goats flesh is to be refused and so are all water fowls as Duck Swan Goose Widgen Teal and such like because they are hard to digest and do increase ill blood and naughtie juyce in the bodie Lambs flesh because of his exceeding moisture is also to be refused Eggs in the Summer not good but in Winter tolerable All Fishes which are of a hard flesh whether they be of the Sea or fresh Rivers are to be allowed In fresh Rivers the Perch Barble Gudgeon Loch Cool Trout and Pike are good and for Sea fish the Gilthed Turbet Sole Rochet Gurnard Lobster Crab Praunes Shrimps Whiting and such like eaten with vinegar There are some Authors which hold opinion that Fish is better to be eaten then flesh in the great fervent heat of the year because they doe make a more cold bloud in the body then flesh another reason is because they doe live under the water they are not infected with any contagion of the aire as Beasts and birds
may be and therefore more wholsome but in my judgement flesh is more wholsome because it doth breed a more pure and fine Juyce in the body then any Fish whatsoever your bread ought to be made of pure wheat not too new nor too old but of one dayes baking or two at most is best Rie bread is to be eschewed because of his great moisture your drink is best beer or ale not too strong or new but the staler and clearer it is the better at your meals a draught or two of Claret wine is tolerable but in hot weather it were good to allay it with a little water for wine doth warm the stomack help digestion and comfort the heart For your Pottage you may take in the Summer Parsly Lettice Sorrell Endive Succorie Sperage Hop-buds Burnet Burrage Buglosse Thime Mints Hysop but in Winter Balm Bittanie Thime Marigold Hysop Majoram Mints and Rue are good For your Sallets take Pimpernell Purslane Mints Sorrell Hore-hound Yong cole Hop-buds Sperage Thime Tops of Fennell Tarregon Lettice and Water-cresses are good Capers are greatly commended being preserved in Vinegar and eaten with a little oyle and vinegar and so are Olives very good also For your sauce the juyce of a Limon Citron or Orange is best the juyce of Sorrell and Vinegar is also good All raw fruits are to be refused except those which tend to sour tast as Pomgranates damask Prunes Pippins red and sour Cherries and Wallnuts Quinces and Peares preserved are very good eaten after meals All kind of Pulse is to be refused as Beans Pease and such like because they increase winde and make raw humours and ill juyce in the bodie Refrain from Garlick Onyons Leeks Pepper Mustard and Rocket because they doe over-heat the body make adustion of the bloud and cause fumes to ascend into the head Cheese is not good because it doth ingender grosse and thick humors Milk is also to be refused because it doth quickly corrupt in the stomack CHAP. X. Sheweth what Exercise and Order is to be kept YOu must beware of all vehement and immoderate exercise which doth provoke sweat as is Tennis dancing leaping running foot-ball hurling and such like because they doe over-much heat the body and open the Pores of respiration whereby the infected aire hath the more scope to enter our bodies but moderate exercise is very convenient the use of hot houses at this time I thinke very dangerous because it doth too much open the pores Walk not into the open ayre in the morning before the Sun hath had some power to cleanse and clear the same and in any case goe not abroad when great fogs and mists are upon the earth for it is dangerous but if urgent occasions move you then before you goe forth of your doors be sure to eat some preservative first and then take some good and odoriferous Pomander Nodule or Nosegay in your hand as before is shewed you The extream heat of the day is likewise to be refused to walk in because it chafeth the bloud as also in the evening after the â—un is set for then unsavory and unwholsome Fogs arise out of the earth and in any case if you can avoid it come not neer any any place infected but use to walk in the open aire and dry ground Use Venus combates moderately but none at all were better the best time to use them is three or four hours after supper before you sleep and then rest upon them Beware of anger fear and pensiveness of the minde for by their means the body is made more apt to receive the infection Use pleasant and merry recreations either with musick pleasant company to talke withall or reading some good books Bewar of sleeping at noon but specially in the Winter season but in Summer to take after dinner a nap of half an hour or an hour is tollerable in elderly bodies Watch not long in the evenings but two or three hours after supper is a good time to take your rest CHAP. XI Teacheth what orders Magistrates and Rulers of Cities and Townes should cause to be observed FIrst To command that no stinking dunghills be suffered near the City Secondly Every evening and morning in hot weather to cause cold water to be cast in the streets especially where the infection is and every day to cause the streets to be kept clean and sweet and cleansed from all filthy things which lye in the same Thirdly And whereas the infection is entered there to cause fires to be made in the streets every morning and evening and if some Frankincense Pitch or some other sweet thing be burnt therein it will be much the better Fourthly Suffer not any Doggs Catts or Pigs to run about the streets for they are very dangerous and apt to carry the infection from place to place Fifthly Command that the excrements and filthy things which are voided from the infected places be not cast into the streets or rivers which are daily in use to make drink or dresse meat Sixtly That no Chirurgians or Barbars which use to let bloud do cast the same into the streets or rivers Seventhly That no Vauts or Privies be then emptied for it is a most dangerous thing Eighthly That all Inholders do every day make clean their stables and cause the dung and filth therein to be carried away out of the City for by suffering it in their houses as some do use to do a whole week or a fortnight it doth so putrifie that when it is removed there is such a stinking and unwholsome smell as is able to infect the whole street where it is Ninthly To command that no Hemp or Flax be kept in water near the City or Town for that will cause a very dangerous and infectious savour Tenthly to have a speciall care that good and wholsome Victuals and Corn be sold in the markets and so to provide that no want thereof be in the City and for such as have not wherewithall to buy necessary food that there to extend their charitable and godly devotion for there is nothing that will more increase the Plague then want and scarsity of necessary food Eleventhly To command that all those which do visite and attend the sick as also all those which have the sicknesse on them and do walk abroad that they do carry something in their hands thereby to be known from other people And here I must advertise you of one thing more which I had almost forgotten which is that when the infection is but in few places there to keep the people in their houses not suffering any one of them to go abroad and so to provide that all such necessaries as they shall need may be brought unto them during the time of their visitation and when it is staied then to cause all the clothes bedding and other such things as were used about the sick to be all burnt although at the charge of the rest of the Inhabitants you buy them
all new for fear least the danger which may ensue thereby do put you to a far greater charge and grief all these aforesaid things are most dangerous and may cause a generall infection to the destroying of a whole City and therefore I do wish that great care be had thereof CHAP. XII Doth shew what you must do when you go to visit the sick FIrst before you enter into the house command that a great fire be made in the chamber where the sick lieth and that some odoriferous perfume be burnt in the midest of the chamber and before you go to him eat some cordiall preservative and smother your clothes with some sweet perfume then wet your temples eares nose and mouth with Rose-water and Vinegar mixt together then take in your mouth a peice of the root of Angelica the rind of a sower Citron or a Clove prepared as before is shewed and have some Nosegay Nodule or Pomander appropriate in your hand which you must alwaies smell unto so may you the more bouldlier perform your intent but herewith all you must have a speciall care that during the time you are with the sick you stand not betwixt the sick body and the fire for that is dangerous because that the fire of his nature draweth all vapors unto it self but keep you alwaies on the contrary side so that the sick may be betwixt you and the fire and for such as are to let any sick infected body to bleed it were good they did cause the keeper of the sick body to lay open that arme or legg which is to be let bloud before he approach near the reason is for that most commonly all that are sick in this contagious disease are for the most part in a sweat and therefore suddenly to receive the breath thereof would be very dangerous Now when you have been with any one so infected before you go into the company of any whole and sound people it were necessary you do stand by a good fire having all the clothes about you which you did wear when you were with the sick and then turn and aire your selfe well thereby so shall you be sure the lesse to endanger others by your company Thus have I as breefly as I can devise set down all the ordinary meanes which my self have used and by others known to be used for preserving you from this contagious and dangerous disease which in the most part of people will suffice but for such as dwell whereas they may have the counsell of a learned Physitian I do wish them to take his advice especially for purging and letting bloud because none can so exactly set down in writing the perfect course thereof which may be understood rightly of the common sort so well as he which hath the sight of the body for that many bodies are oftentimes troubled with some one humour abounding more then another which here to treat of would be too tedious neither can it profit the common people for whose sakes I have taken this paines and now will I shew the signes to know when one is infected therewith as also which are the laudable signes and which are the contrary and lastly the meanes by God his assistance how for to cure the same CHAP. XIII Sheweth the signes of infection THe signes and tokens hereof are divers as first it is perceived by the suddain weaknesse loosing and overthrowing of our naturall strength without any manifest cause thereof going before and sometimes it doth begin with a gnawing and biting in the mouth of the stomack the pulse will grow weak feeble and unequall with a great streightnesse and heavinesse about the heart as if some heavie burthen or weight were layd thereon with shortness of breathing vomiting or at least a great desire to vomit great pain in the head insatiable thirst proceeding of their great interior heat sluggishnes and universal faintness of all the body with a great desire to sleep and an astonishment of the mind and vitall spirits and for the most part they complain of a great paine which is felt in some one place or places of their bodies where the botch or blain is by nature intended to be thrust forth yet some at the first have them appearing and for the most part they are taken at the first with a sharp and rigorous feaver Good signes When the botch or Carbunkle cometh out in the beginning of the sicknesse with a red colour and yellowish round about it and that it doth quickly come to maturation the feaver to cease and the party findeth himself eased of his grief and quickned in his spirits these are good and laudable signes of recovery Evill signes When the botch at the first commeth out blackish or black in colour also when the botch is opened the flesh within doth look blew and that then there appear not any matter or quitture in the wound but as it were a spume or froth issuing out thereof are ill and deadly signes When the botch waxeth so hard that by no means it will come to suppuration but resisteth whatsoever is done unto it for the furthering thereof and so returneth in againe into the inward parts suddenly is a token of sudden death at hand and so it is if either before or after it is broken it look of a blewish colour or of divers colours like the Rainbow round about it When the Carbunckle or Blain doth suddenly dry up as if it were scorcht with the fire and that the place round about it doth shew to be of a wannish blew colour is a deadly sign if in the skin appear green or black spots the excrements of divers colours with worms in it either dead or living having a vile stinking savour and spitteth stinking and bloudy matter doth betoken death When the sick complaines of great and extream heat in the inward parts and yet cold outwardly the eyes staring or weeping the face terrible the said excrements or urin passing away and the party not knowing thereof are evill signes When in the fourth or seventh day they are taken with a frensie or do fall into an extream bleeding at nose or have a great flux with a continuall vomiting or a desire to vomit and do it not extream pain at the heart watchfullness and the strength clean gone are deadly signes When the party being very sick yet saith he feeleth himself well his eyes sunk deep in his head and full of tears when he thinks all things do stink his nailes looking blew the nose sharp and as it were crooked the breath thick and short with a cold sweat in the brest and face and turning and playing with the clothes the pulse creeping or scarcely to be felt and greivous unto him to speak these are infallible signes of death at hand Some before any of these signes are perceived do dy and some likewise which have divers of them appearing and yet do escape such is the uncertainty of this disease there are
Inflammation and Fever but also prevent the danger of Gangrena which may chance thereby The Bag. Take Mallowes Violets Plantain Liblong ana one handfull Fat Figs â„¥ i. Hollihock roots Lillie roots ana â„¥ i. Lin-seed â„¥ i. You must shred the hearbs grosly and cut the Figgs and roots small then bruise them in a morter and mingle them altogether then put them into two little bags of linnen cloth and boil them in a sufficient quantitie of clean water untill the water be half consumed then take out one of the baggs and wring out the water a little and apply it to the grief warm and when it is cold take it away and lay on the other and doe so half an hour together every dressing which must be twice a day at least The Cataplasm Take Mallows Violets Sorrell Liblong ana two handfuls Henbane a little handfull Wrap them all in a ball together and roast them in the ashes then bruise them in a morter and adde thereto Mel rosarum â„¥ iiii Triacle Ê’ i. ss Saffron in pouder half a drachm Yolks of five Eggs. Mix them together with the rest adding some Barly flower thereto to thicken it and apply it warm renuing it alwaies before it grow dry and stiffe and every dressing you must Epithemate the grief first with the baggs aforesaid and this order must be continued untill the pain and Inflammation be gone then to bring it unto Suppuration if you adde to the foresaid Cataplasm some oyle of Lillies and sweet Butter unsalted it will be very good or you may make this Cataplasm following Take Soot of the chimney â„¥ iii. Bay salt â„¥ i. ss Yolks of two or three Eggs. Mix all these together in a morter and apply it to the grief warm which must be alwaies renewed and changed before it grow dry and stiffe this order must be continued untill the sore come to suppuration then to remove the scar and finish the cure doe you follow the order prescribed in the beginning of this Chapter There are other dangerous accidents which dâ—e sometimes chance in the botch or Carbuncle which here to treat of would little avail the unexpert people because they know not the means how to execute the same but if any such thing chance then doe I wish you to seek the help of some learned Physitian or expert Chirurgion whose counsell I doe wish you to follow The End of the Second Treatise A Short Treatise of the Small Pox shewing the Means how for to govern and cure those which are infected therewith CHAP. I. Sheweth what the Small Pox and Measels are and whereof it proceedeth FOr that oftentimes those that are infected with the Plague are in the end of the disease sometime troubled with the small Pox or Measels as also by good observation it hath been seen that they are fore-runners or warnings of the plague to come as Salius and divers other writers doe testifie I have thought it good and as a matter pertinent to my former Treatise to shew the aids and helps which are required for the same I need not greatly to stand upon the description of this disease because it is a thing well known unto most people proceeding of adusted bloud mixt with flegm as Avicen witnesseth which according to both ancient and latter Writers doth alwaies begin with a Fever then shortly after there ariseth small Pustulaes upon the skin throughout all the body which doe not suddenly come forth but by intermission in some more or lesse according to the state and qualitie of the bodie infected therewith for in some there ariseth many little Pustulaes with elevation of the skin which in one day doe increase and grow bigger and after have a thick matter growing in them which the Greeks call Exanthemata or Exthymata and after the Latines Variola in our English tongue the small Pox and here some Writers doe make a difference betwixt variola and exanthemata for say they that is called variola when many of those Pustules doe suddenly run into a clear bladder as if it had been scalled but the other doth not so yet they are both one in the cure they doe most commonly appear the fourth day or before the eight day as Avicen witnesseth What the Measels or Males are Avicen saith That the Measels or Males is that which first cometh with a great swelling in the flesh with many little Pimples which are not to be seen but onely by feeling with the hand are to be perceived they have little elevation of the skin neither doe they grow to maturation or end with ulceration as the Pox doth neither doe they assault the eyes or leave any deformity behind them as the Pox doth neither are they so swift in coming forth but doe grow more slowly they require the same cure which the Pox have they proceed of cholerick and melancholie bloud The cause of the Pox and Measels The primitive cause as Valetius saith is by alteration of the aire in drawing some putrified and corrupt quality unto it which doth cause an ebullition of our bloud The cause antecedent is repletion of meats which do easily corrupt in the stomack as when we eat milk and fish together at one time or by neglecting to draw bloud in such as have accustomed to doe it every year whereby the bloud doth abound The conjunct cause is the menstruall bloud which from the beginning in our mothers wombs wee received the which mixing it self with the rest of our bloud doth cause an Ebullition of the whole The efficient cause is nature or naturall heat which by that menstruall matter mixing it self with the rest of our bloud doth cause a continuall vexing and disquieting thereof whereby an unnaturall heat is increased in all the body causing an Ebullition of bloud by the which this filthy menstrual matter is seperated from our natural bloud and the nature being offended and overwhelmed therewith doth thrust it to the outward pores of the skin as the excrements of bloud which matter if it be hot and slimie then it produceth the Pox but if dry and subtil then the Measels or Males But Mercurialis an excellent writer in Physick in his first Book de morbis puerorum cap. 2. agreeing with Fernelius in his Book De abditis rerum causis c. 12. doth hold opinion that the immediate cause of this disease doth not proceed of menstrual bloud but of some secret and unknown corruption or defiled quality of the aire causing an Ebullition of bloud which is also verified by Valetius and now doth reckon it to be one of the hereditable diseases because few or none doe escape it but that either in their youth ripe age or old age they are infected therewith The contention hereabout is great and mighty reasons are oppugned on both sides therefore I will leave the judgement thereof unto the better learned to define but mine opinion is That now it proceedeth of the Excrements of all the four humours in our bodies
which striving with the purest doth cause a supernatural heat and ebullition of our bloud alwaies beginning with a Fever in the most part and may well be reckoned in the number of those diseases which are called Epidemia as Fracastorius in his first Book De morbis contag cap. 13. witnesseth this disease is very contagious and infectious as experience teacheth us There are two speciall causes why this disease is infectious The first is be cause it proceedeth by ebullition of bloud whose vapour being entred into another bodie doth soon defile and infect the same the second reason is because it is a disease hereditable for we see when one is infected therewith that so many as come neer him especially those which are allyed in the same bloud doe assuredly for the most part receive the infection also CHAP. II. Sheweth to know the signs when one is infected as also the good and ill signs in the disease THe signs when one is infected are these first he is taken with a hot Fever and sometime with a Delirium great pain in the back furring and stopping of the nose beating of the heart hoarsnesse redness of the eyes and full of tears with heavinesse and pain in the head great beating in the forehead and temples heaviness and pricking in all the body dryness in the mouth the face very red pain in the throat and breast difficulty in breathing and shaking of the hands and feet with spitting thick matter When they doe soon or in short time appear and that in their coming out they doe look red and that after they are come forth they doe look white and speedily grow to maturation that he draweth his breath easily and doth find himself eased of his pain and that his Fever doth leave him these are good and laudable signes of recovery When the Pox lye hidden within and not appearing outwardly or if after they are come forth they doe suddenly strike in again and vanish away or that they doe look of a black blewish and green colour with a difficultie and straitnesse of drawing breath and that he doe often swoun if the sick have a flix or lask when the Pox were found double that is one growing within another or when they run together in blisters like scalding bladders and then on the sudden do sink down and grow dry with a hard black scar or crust as if it had been burnt with a hot iron all these are ill signs Avicen saith there are two speciall causes which produce death unto those that have this disease either for that they are choaked with great Inflammation and swelling in the throat called Angina or having a flix or lask which doth so weaken and overthrow the vitall spirits that thereby the disease is increased and so death followeth How to know of what humours this disease cometh If it come of bloud then they appear red with generall pain and great heat in all the body If they come of choler then will they appear of a yellowish red and clear colour with a pricking pain in all the bodie If they come of flegm then will they appear of a whitish colour and scaly or with scales If they come of melancholie then will they appear blackish with a pricking pain CHAP. III. Sheweth the meanes to cure the Pox or Measels THere are two speciall meanes required for curing this disease the first is to help nature to expell the same from the interior and principall parts unto the exterior the second is to preserve both the interior and exterior parts that they may not be hurt thereby For the first intention if the age and strength of the sick will permit and that the Pox or Measels appear not it were then good in the first second or third day to draw bloud out of the Basilica veine in the right arme if he be not under the age of fourteen years but the quantity must be at the discretion of him that draweth it either more or lesse as occasion is offered but for children and such as are of tender years and weak bodies it were not good to draw bloud out of the arme but out of the inferior parts as the thighes hams buttocks and the Emeroidall veines especially if the party be melancholie or else to apply ventoses to the loynes buttocks or hams which may boldly be used both before and after they do appear either with scarification or without as cause requireth which is a speciall good meanes to draw that Ichorous matter from the interior to the exterior parts but for sucking Children it were best to apply bloud-suckers unto any of the foresaid places which is a thing that may be used with more ease then ventoses neither do I wish either of them to be used unlesse necessity require it which is when the matter lieth lurking in the interior parts not offering it self to appear outwardly otherwise I hold it better to leave the whole work unto nature specially in sucking children for when we see that nature is ready or doth endeavour to expell the malignity which is in the interior parts to the exterior which may be perceived by reviving of the Spirits and mitigating of the Fever here we ought not to use any meanes at all but leave the whole operation to nature which we must onely help by keeping the sick body in a reasonable heat being wrapt in a scarlet stammell or red cloth which may not touch the skin but to have a soft linnen cloth betwixt them both and then cover him with clothes in reasonable sort and keep him from the open ayre and the light except a little and also from anger using all the meanes you can to keep the sick in quietnesse and if the body be very costive then to give an easie Glister A Glister â„ž Barley two handfuls Violet leaves one handfull Boyle these in three pints of water untill half be consumed and strein it then take of the same decoction twelve ounces Oyle of Violets three ounces red Sugar and Butter of either one ounce Mix them together and give it to the sick warm you may encrease or diminish the decoction or ingredients according as the age of the party requireth but if the sick have great heat then may you add one ounce or four drachms of Câ—ssia newly drawn unto it and when he hath expelled the Glister then rub the armes hands legs and feet softly with a warm cloth which is also a very good meanes to draw that chorous matter from the interior to the exterior parts when all this is done then if the body be inclined to sweat you must further the same by covering him with warm clothes having a care that you lay not more on him then he can well endure for otherwise you may cause faintnesse and swouning which are ill in this case yet must you alwaies keep the sick warm and suffer him not to sleep or permit very little untill the Pox or Measels do appear and here
the same side in any case not in the arme for it will draw up the matter again But if no botch appear outwardly draw bloud out of that side where you feel greatest pain and heavinesse and out of that vein the greif of the members affected shall point thee out If you perceive the Plague invade you at meat or on a full stomack vomit speedily and when your stomack is empty take some Medicine that may resist Poyson as Mithridate or Triacle or some of these following which as choise Medicines I have inserted as being Doctor Edwards Experiments For the Plague Infuse two peices of fine pure Gold in the juyce of Lemons four and twenty hours and drink that juyce with a little Wine with powder of the Angelica root It is admirable and hath helped divers past all hope of cure Another Take two drachms of Juniper berries of Terra lumnia â—â— make both into fine powder and mix it with Honey and take of it as much as a â—â—asâ—â—â— of honeyed water made up thus Take a pint of Honey and of water eight pints seeth and scum it at an easie fire till the fourth part be wasted It is an excellent Antidote against Poyson and Plague if the Poyson be taken before it will expell it by vomit if not the Medicine will stay in the stomack Another Take Zedoary roots the best you can get great Raisins and Licorice champ it with thy teeth and swallow it if you be infected it preserveth without danger Another for botches boyls and tokens Take of ripe Ivy berries dryed in the shade as much of the powder as will lye upon a groat or more and put it into three or four ounces of white Wine and lie in bed and sweat well after your sweat is over change shirt and sheets and all the bed clothes if he may if not yet change his shirt and sheets Some have taken this powder over night and found themselves well in the morning and walked about the house fully cured One having a Plague sore under the thigh another under the left arme-pit taking this powder in the morning and again that night the sores brake of themselves by this excellent Medicine sent by Almighty God It is good for Botches Boyles Plague-sores Tokens Shingles Erisipella and such like c. Thus farre Doctor Edwards Doctor in Physick and Chirurgery Experiments tried by my selfe For the Plague TAke of Pillulae pestilentiales called Ruffi or of Pâ—â—â—y Magogon or for want of it of extraction Rudii of each half a drachm mingle these into six pills for two doses whereof take three at a time in the morning fasting for two dayes together Another excellent approved Remedy Take eight or nine grains of Aurum vitae either in Triaâ—le water or made up in Diascordium fasting Another excellent sweating powder for the Plague Take of the powder e Chelis Cancrorum of Aromaticum rosatum and of Cerusa Antimonii of each half a scruple mingle these up together in a diaphoretick powder and take it in four spoonfuls of Triacle water well mingled together The Cure of Diseases in Remote Regions The Calenture HAppeneth to our Nation in intemperate Climates by Inflammation of bloud and proceedeth often of immoderate drinking of wine and eating of pleasant fruits which are such nourishers thereof as they prevent the meanes used in curing the same To know the Calenture At the first apprehension it afflicts the Patient with great pain in the head and heat in the body which is continuall or increasing and doth not diminish and angment as other Fevers doe and is oft an Introduction to the Taberdilla or Pestilence but then the body will seem very yellow To cure the Calenture So soon as you perceive the Patient possest of the Calenture except the Chirurgion for danger of the sign defer it I have seen the time of the day not respected open the Median vein of the right arm and take such quantity of bloud as agreeth with the ability of the bodie but if it asswage not the heat by the next day open the same vein in the left arme and take so much more like quantity of bloud at his discretion and if the body be costive as commonly they are give him some meet purgation and suffer him to drink no other then water cold wherein Barley and Annise-seeds have been boyled with bruised Liquorice And if within 4. dayes the partie amend not or being recovered take it again open the vein Cephalick in one or both hands bathing them in warm water untill there come so much more bloud as cause requires Suffer not the Patient to drinke seven dayes after he is perfectly recovered any other drinke then such water as is before herein directed The Taberdilla IS a disease so called by the Spaniards by the Mexicans Cocalista and by other Indians is named Taberdet and is so exceeding pestilent and infectious that whole Kingdomes in both the India's have been depopulated by it for want of knowledge to redresse themselves of it To know the Taberdilla It first assaults the Patient vehemently with pain in the head and back and the body seeming yellow is some sign thereof and within 24 hours it is so torturous that the possest thereof cannot rest or sleep turning himself on either side back or belly burning in his back most extreamly And when it growes to perfection there will appear red and blue spots upon the Patients breast and wrists And such persons as have not presently requisite means applyed to them to prevent it will be by the vehement torment thereof deprived of their wits and many to cease their pain by losse of their lives have despairingly slain and drowned themselves The Cure of the Taberdilla When you perceive it afflict the Patient permit him not to lie very warm nor upon feathers for of what quality soever he bee in Spain having this sickness he is laid upon wheat-straw Then immediatly open the Median Vein first in one arm and the next day in the other taking a good quantity of bloud Let him have water cold wherein Barlie and Annise-seeds have been sodden without Liquorice for the Spanish Physitians hold Liquorice to bee hurtfull unto them so much as he will desire which will be every moment but no other drink nor any raw fruits Assoon as the spots appear give him some Cordiall potion and laying him upon his belly set six Ventoses together on his back between and beneath the shoulders and scarifying them draw out if it be a body of strong constitution 18 ounces of bloud After which and that he hath slept he will find ease within twenty four hours and such alteration in himself as he will thinke he is delivered of a most strange torment Then give him moderately nourishing meats for he will desire to eat much the fourth day give him some convenient Purgations And if in the mean while he is costive provoke him every day by Clisters and warn him to forbear 15 dayes
dissolved To bring the Camphire to powder In a clean Morter beat one Almond then put in the Camphire and beat it to a fine powder without which it will not come to a powder Likewise be at all the Cloves to a fine powder then mix all together in a strong glasse stop it close and lute it that no air enter and let it stand forty dayes and nights abroad in the hottest time of summer and shake it well thrice a day The use Drop a drop of the water into the eye thrice a day with a black Hens Feather the infirm lying on their back and stirring the eye up and down If there be any thing grow upon the eye Take four drops of oyle of Amber rectified and mix with half an ounce of the water dresse the eye as before For any Ague Take a quarter of a pint of Canary Sack put into it a penny-worth of oyle of Spike a pennyworth of Sirrup of Poppyes and one grain of Bezar mingle these together and let them stand infused all night and exhibite it next morning to the Patient fasting For an Ague Boyle two ounces of Roch in a Pipkin in a pint of Ale about a quarter of an hour or better then give the party grieved to drink of it pretty warm some two houres before the fit cometh about half of it and what the party cannot drink at the first draught let it be warmed against the second fit and give it as before after two houres be past let the party drink as much posset drink as he can Another Take the quantity of a Wallnut of black Sope and three times as much crown Sope mix them together then shred a pretty quantity of Rue and half a spoonfull of Pepper finely beaten and a quarter of a spoonfull of fine wheat flour mingle all these together then take as much strong Beer as will make it spread upon a linnen cloth whereof make two plaisters and lay to each wrist one and sow them fast on for nine dayes this must be applied as the cold fitt beginneth to come upon them To make Pills to cleanse the backe Boyle Venice Turpentine in Plantain water then take the Turpentine and bray it in a Morter to very fine powder take the powder and mingle it with powder of white Amber powder of Oculorum cancrorum and powder of Nutmeg of each half a drachm mix them up into Pills and take three of them in a morning A Bath Take Mallow leaves Violet leaves Endive Motherwort Mugwort Rose leaves Lettice Cammomill Bay leaves boyle of all these one handfull in a sufficient quantity of pure running water and set in the Bath about an hour then goe into a warm bed and sweat awhile and when you come out of your sweat and are pretty cool eat Strawberries and Sugar this will clear the body and purifie the blood For the Cough of the Lungs and defluxions You may take sometimes of Sirrup magistrall of Scabious and of Oxymell Jutianizans of each one ounce and of Diacodium half an ounce and of Sirrup of Diasereos half an ounce Mingle these all well together and mingle with it also a drachm of pure flower of Sulphur finely searced and take of this the quantity of a large Nutmeg three or four times in a day at morning an hour before dinner an hour before supper and last at night it will cut the flegm and carry it gently away without any perturbation or violent trouble of coughing and cause quiet rest To cause a woman to have her Flowers Take of Gladwin Roots about a handful boyle them in Vinegar or in white Wine till they be very tender and after put this into a Vessel on the ground in a close stool so that the woman may sit over it very close stopped so that the heat may strike up into her body This Medicine is reported never to fail but to bring them down But you must have a speciall care that no woman being with child have this Medicine administred to her For the Cough of the Lungs Take of Coltsfoot two handfuls of Hysop and the tops of red Nettles of each one handful of Horehound and Maiden-hair of each half a handfull of Raisins of the sun having their stones taken out three ounces of Liquorice sliced half an ounce and of Elecampane roots sliced one ounce of Annise-seeds half an ounce grosly bruised boil all these together in a gallon of water in an earthen Pipkin with a gentle fire till the third part be boyled away then strein it and take a quart of the decoction and put to it two ounces of Sugar-Candie beaten and let it boil a little over the fire again till the Sugar Candie be melted then take it off the fire and put it up into a glasse close stopped and drinke of it three or four spoonfuls morning and evening so long as it lasteth a little warmed For Cramp or Numnesse Take a penniworth of Saffron put it into a little bag then put it into three ounces of Rosewater and stir it well in the Rosewater then take four penniworth of Camphire and infuse that in the Rosewater and being so infused and mixed chafe the place with it warm and smell to it as he bathes the place For a Cough Winde and a cold Stomack Take four ounces of good Annise-seed water mingle it with one ounce of spirit of Mint and dissolve it with two ounces of pure white Sugar candie beaten into very fine pouder set it upon a chafingdish of coals in a peuter dish and when it beginneth to walm burn it with a paper as you doe wine stirring it well together with a spoon then take it off the fire and evening and morning take a good spoonful of it first and last It will comfort the stomack and is good against cough and winde For a Cough and Consumption Take of Lungwort Liverwort Hysop Violet and Strawbrrie leaves of each one handful Licorice sliced and scraped Annise-seeds and Fennel-seeds of each one penniworth a little bruised a Parsly and a Fennel root clean scraped pithed and cut into small peeces twelve figs sliced four ounces of good great Raisins having their stones taken out boyl all these together in a pottle of clear running water till it come to three pints then put into it two ounces of pure white hard Sugar dissolve it upon the fire with the other decoction then take it off strein it and drink thrice a day of it that is in the morning about four in the afternoon and last at night three or four ounces of it at a time and it will asswage the driness and thirst and open the obstructions and stoppings of the Liver and Spleen and cause your Flegm to com away with more ease For a Cold Dropsie Take Olibanum and rost it in a Fig and apply it to their great Toe But if they be swelled in their face or head then take a new layd Egg roasted hard take out the yolk aend put into
keep the clear for your own use and reserve the bottome which you may give away unto poor people for it will be good and comfortable though not so strong The way to use it is to take every morning fasting a spoonfull and after every meal at each severall time a spoonfull A sudden way to make up this excellent Cordiall ana â„¥ iiii Take of the best of Doctor Mountfords water Of very good Angelica water ana â„¥ iiii Of Clove water ana â„¥ iiii Of Rosemary water ana â„¥ iiii Of Balm water â„¥ ii Of spirit of Saffron Mingle all these together and with as much sirrup of pure Sugar as shall suffice mingled make it up and put into either of these two Medicines of Musk and Ambergrease of each a grain Both these are excellent Cordials for all the greifes before rehearsed Pills to purge flegm and Wind. Take of the best Aloes succotrina nine drachms of Rubarb Jallop and Agarick of each six drachms of Mastick four drachms of red Rose leaves three drachms let all these be beaten severally into very fine powder and searced then mix them well and beat them up into a paste with sirrup of damask Roses as much as shall suffice at the end add unto it twenty drops of oyle of Anniseeds when you have occasion to use these Pills take about two scruples thereof for one dose made up into three Pills For the Gout Take of new extracted Honey two spoonfuls a pennyworth of red Nettle seeds finely bruised mingle them well together and apply it to the Gout Let the party drink every third day for a sevennight in the morning in his bed half a pint of new Milk of a red or black Cow For the Gout My Lord Denni's Medicine Take Burdocks leaves and stalks cut them small and stamp them very small then strain them and cleanse them and when you have so done put them into glasses and put pure oyle of Olives a top of them and stop it close from the air and when you would use it for the Gout poure it into a porrenger and warm it and wet linnen clothes in it and apply it warm to the greived place warming your clothes one after another as they grow cold that are on Another very good for the Gout Take the Yest of Ale and spread it upon brown paper and apply it upon the greived place pretty warm the space of twelve houres some first warm the pickle of Olives and then bath the greived place therewith putting their feet into it and after use the former Medicine My Lord Denni's Medicine must not be taken till three dayes after the change of the Moon then after it must be taken six dayes together then six dayes before the full it must be taken twice a day To stay the Courses when they come down too violently Take half a drachm or a drachm of Diascordium dissolve it in a drachm of posset Ale wherein formerly hath been boyled half a handfull of Shepherds purse and as much knotgrasse and of the greater Comfrey and drink thereof a good draught at a time morning and evening For the Whites Take a quarter of a handfull of white Archangell Plantain Sheaphards purse and of the greater Comfrey of each half a handfull of the hearbs Horse-taile and Cats-taile of each half a handfull boyle all these in two quarts of Milk till half be consumed away then strain it and sweeten it with good white Sugar Candy finely beaten and drink of it twice a day for ten or fifteen dayes together To keep the body soluble and to purifie the bloud Take Maydenhair wild Germander wood-Sorrell and Balm of each a pugill of wild Mercury half a handfull of damask Roses two handfuls of clarified Whey six pints let it stand scalding hot for an houre stirring it sometimes after an hour is past strain it and drink it twice or thrice a day a good draught of it and if you wash your hands in Beef broth after your taking it it will take away all roughnesse and haires of the hands it may be taken safe of a woman with child For the green Sicknesse or yellow Jaundies For cure hereof first purge universally with this or the like purgation â„ž of Hiera picra four scruples of Rubarb and Trochisces of Agarick of each half a drachm of rasped Ivory and Hartshorn of each half a scruple of Cinnamon six graines of Saffron four graines of Diacatholicon half an ounce infuse these things in the Whey of Cows Milk or in the distilled water of Alkakengie or in Dodder water or Endive water you may adde Oxymell thereto An Electuary for the green Sicknesse Take of Diatrion santalon and Diarrhodon abbatis of each one drachm of Diacurcuma and confection of Alkermes of each half an ounce of Diamargariton frigidum and Calidum of each two drachms of rasped Ivory and Hartshorn of each one drachm of all these make an Electuary and give it evening and morning by it self or with Dodder or Endive water the dose is one drachm protempore uno An excellent Powder for the green Sicknesse â„ž four scruples of Gentian made into fine powder of rasped Ivory and Hartshorn of each two scruples make these into a fine powder and give a spoonfull thereof with white Wine or the like at once Another Medicine â„ž Three or four spoonfuls of flemish Madder boyle it in two quarts of white Wine with a peice of Sugar to the consumption of half of it strain it and let the Maid en drink thereof morning and evening a good draught warm and walk or use some exercise to heat the body but take no cold use this for eleven or twelve dayes together A singular purging Potion against the green Sicknesse and all opilations of the Liver and causeth young Maids to look fresh and fair and cherry-cheek'd and will bring down their Courses the stopping whereof causeth this greif and it is good against all manner of itch scabs breaking out and manginesse of the body purifying the blood from all corruption â„ž Of the roots of Monkes Rubarb that is red Dock and of red Madder ana half a pound of Sena four ounces of Anniseseed and Licorice of each two ounces of Scabious and Agrimony of each one handfull slice the roots of Rubarb and bruise the Anniseseed and Licorice break the hearbs small and put them all into a pot with four gallons of strong Ale and infuse them all the space of three dayes then drink of this drink for your ordinary drink for three weeks at the least the longer the better and make new as need requireth it cureth the Dropsie and yellow Jaundies also if you put in of Cammomill one handfull For the green Sicknesse or Jaundies â„ž Of white Briony root sliced half an ounce boyle it in a pint of Ale gently a quarter of an hour and drink a good draught thereof and sweat and in your sweat drink it all or as much as you can the next day make new
and drink again but without sweating and use some exercise to keep the body warm use this last order twelve dayes together use good Cordials and Restoratives with sirrup and conserve of Fumitory For the green Sicknesse and Jaundies Boyle of Rue and Sage of each a bundle in a quart or three pints of Ale with one scruple of Saffron To cure this disease the Electuary of Steel is excellent if the body be first purged for it doth open all obstructions but the Patient must use some exercise after the taking it to stirre up naturall heat the better the dose is half an ounce at a time to take of it The Steel for the Electuary is thus prepared â„ž Of the filings of the best Iron or Steel as much as you please grinde it subtilly and finely upon a Porphiry or red Marble stone with Vinegar then dry it at the Sun or at the fire and grinde it again with Vinegar as at the first and doe thus seven times one after another and thus you have the Steel prepared fit for you The Electuary of Steel is made up thus â„ž Of the filings of Steel so prepared half an ounce Cinnamon Nutmegs condited of each three drachms of chosen Rubarb two drachms of the species of Aromaticum rosatum half a drachm of chosen Honey and of fine white Sugar of each one pound and one ounce mingle these all together over a soft fire and make it up into an Electuary After the taking of this Electuary let the Patient in all cases use some bodily exercises being first universally purged for this Electuary is most excellent against all obstructions of the Liver Spleen or other disease and for the green Sicknesse For the green Sicknesse or green Jaundies The green Sicknesse or Jaundies cometh of yellow choller mixed with corrupt or putrified flegm and corruption of bloud debility of nature and faintnesse of heart it happeneth also when the Liver is weakened that it cannot convert the nourishment into bloud but the digestion is raw and crude so that the whole body is filled with water and flegm instead of good bloud it is cheifly found in young Maidens who desire to abate their fresh colours and as they conceive to be fine and fair and foolishly feed upon trash which altereth the colour and state of their bodies as of unripe Apples Peares Plums Cherries and raw Fruits and Hearbs or Meale Wheat Barly raw Milk Chalk Lime and the like and they that have this disease are very pale and greenish if they chance to cut their finger no bloud but water will follow they feele great pain in their head with continuall beating are faint short-breathed and their naturall Flowers are stopped and stayed to the prevention and cure whereof the body must first be well and orderly purged as by the Medicines before prescribed The Table for the Child-Bearers Cabinet WHat things are to be taken heed of in the two first Moneths page 1. Orders for the third moneth 2. From the fourth moneth 3. From the fifth sixth and seventh moneth ibid. In the eighth moneth 4. In the ninth moneth 5. A Liniment 6. The Fomentation ibid. The Bath 7. Suffumigations of the Genitals to facilitate delivery ibid. What meat is most usefull 8. What manner of Chamber the woman with child should lye in ibid. What is to be done at the Birth ibid. How and wherewith the child-bed womans bed ought to be furnished 9. To whom the seat may agree and be fit ibid. What the Midwife shall doe in the very moment of the Birth ibid. What to be done when the Infant is come into the world 10. If the Secondines break not readily 11. What is to be done after the child is born if yet the Secondine or after-Birth be retained ibid. Another approved Remedie for drawing them forth 12. Another Receipt ibid. To draw forth a dead child ibid. How the bellies of Child-bearing women being costive or bound may be loosned 13. What things are to be applyed to the naturall or Secret Parts ibid. The Fomentation ibid. Another 14. An Ointment ibid. A Girdle for the Belly ibid. The order from the seventh day after the woman is brought to bed 15. On the eighth day ibid. On the ninth day ibid. A Liniment to scatter and disperse the Milk ibid. When and whath Bath they must use 16. Another 17. Against the gripings of the belly in Children ibid. Outward Remedies for the same ibid. Inward helps in their meats ibid. A Drink ibid. The government of the Nurse 18. The Care of the Infant 19. A Bath of sweet water very profitable for Children as by whose meanes they may grow up and increase 20. The diseases of Infants 21. The diseases and symptomes proceeding from the birth in women with child ibid. Against the Rupture of the Cods and perinaeum and the part between the rising of the Yeard and the Fundament which proceedeth from difficulty of bringing forth 22. For windinesse or Collick of the Belly 23. For the Itch. ibid. For the Flux of the bloud 24. For falling down of the Matrix from the birth ibid. For the Piles after the birth 25. Against pain of the Breasts contracted by too much Milk ibid. For the Imposthume of the Breasts ibid. What is to be administred to the Child after it is born for the first thing it taketh 27. For Infants troubled with wind and flegm 28. A most excellent Medicine to cause Children to teeth easily ibid. For Agues in Children ibid. For Wormes in Children ibid. For Heart-Wormes 29. The Cure ibid. To cause a young Child to goe to stool ibid. Another certain Experiment .. ibid. The Table of the Cures for severall Diseases FOr Ach in the bones 33. For all Aches and lame Members ibid. An Ointment for all Aches which come from cold causes shrunken Sinewes straines in man or beast it is incomparable and will keep forty yeares but it must be made onely in May. 34. To counterfeit beyond-Sea Azure ibid. To know good Azure and pure 35. For an Ague ibid. For a Tertian or a double Tertian Ague ibid. For a short Breath ibid. An Electuary for the shortnesse of Breath .. 36. For a Bruise or Squat ibid. A Restorative for the back 37. For Aches in the Back ibid. For bleeding at the Nose ibid. For burning or Scalding ibid. For a Cough of the Lungs 38. For purging of Colds Coughs and Comforting the Lungs ibid. A Julep for a Cough 39. Another ibid. For a Canker in the Mouth ibid. For a Consumption and Cough of the Lungs 40. For Collick and paines in the Back ibid. For the Cramp 41. For a Canker ibid. Another ibid. For a Canker in the Lips ibid. A water for a Consumption ibid. For the Cough 42. For a Cough or shortness of Breath ibid. For a Consumption ibid. For the Dropsie 43. Another ibid. For pains in the Eyes ibid. For sore Eyes by salt Rheum ibid. To cleer the Eye-sight 44. For the Flux ibid. Another
ill signs in the disease 52. How to know of what humours this disease cometh 53. How to cure the Measels or small Pox. 54. A Clyster 55. How to preserve the eyes ibid. What is to be done when the Pox or Measels are slow in coming forth 57. Another good drink to expell the Pox or Measels ibid. Epithemation for the heart 58. How to quench the thirst ibid. What is to be done when all the Pox are come out ibid. When the Pox after they be come out doe not grow to maturation how you shall help it 60. How to help ulceration ibid. A very good Vnguent for the same purpose 61. For extream heat and burnings in the soles of the feet and palms of the hands ibid. For to help the sorenesse and ulceration of the mouth ibid. For inflammation and pain in the tonsils and throat 62. Another ibid. How to open the eye-lids that are fastened together with the Pox. ibid. A good Collary for a Web or Ungula in the eye ibid. How to help divers accidents which chance after the Pox are cured and gone 63. For rednesse of the face and hands after the Pox are gone ibid. For spots in the face remaining when the Pox are gone ibid. A good Ointment for the same purpose 64. For holes remaining when the small Pox are gone ibid. Running of the Eares how to help it ibid. For stopping of the Nostrils to help it 65. For hoarsenesse remaining when the Pox are gone ibid. For filthy and moist Scabs after the Pox are gone ibid. The Table of the additionall Observations A Preservative against the infection of the Air and Plague often approved by Pope Adrian and many other of great rank and quality 97. A Cordiall water against the Infection ibid. Severall opinions against wearing of Arsenick Amulets as Preservatives against the Plague 98. Causes of the Plague 100. Signs of the Plague 101. How the infection of the Plague entreth into a man ibid. The cure of the Plague 102. Another 103. Another ibid. Another ibid. Another for Botches Boyles and Tokens 104. Experiments for the cure of the Plague 105. Another approved Remedy ibid. A sweating Powder ibid. The Table of the cure of Diseases in remote Regions THe Calenture 106. To know the Calenture ibid. To cure the Calenture ibid. The Taberdilla 107. To know the Taberdilla ibid. The cure of the Taberdilla ibid. The Espinlas 108. To know the Espinlas ibid. To cure the Espinlas 109. Camera de Sangre ibid. The cure of the bloudy Flux ibid. The Erisipela 110. To know the Erisipela ibid. To cure the Erisipela ibid. The Tinoso or Scurvy 111. To know the Scurvy ibid. Preservatives against the Scurvy 112. To cure the Scurvy ibid. Sennertus his Observations of the Scurvy 113. A water to make a man see within forty dayes though he have been blind seven yeares before if he be under fifty yeares of age 115. For the Web in the eye ibid. For the Wind in the side that maketh the head swim ibid. Against Deafnesse ibid. Contra lupum veniens super oculum aut pedem 116. Pro Cancro lupo ibid. Pro oculis ibid. For bleared eyes 117. Cornes ibid. Apostema ibid. For a cold Stomack ibid. For the pain of the Stomack ibid. For wind or gnawing in the belly ibid. For the small Pox. ibid. For a stroak in the eye 118. Bloudshed in the eye ibid. Pro oculo aure ibid. For a venomed Sore ibid. To make a Swelling break ibid. For the Squinsie ibid For biting of a mad Dog ibid. To break a Botch ibid. For gnawings ibid. To increase Milk ibid. If Milk be thick ibid. A Salve for Botches Wounds and Sores ibid. Venena 119. Pro auribus ibid. Caput-purgium ibid. For the bloudy Flix ibid. For Stomack-Wormes ibid. For a Felon ibid. For the Reins of the Back ibid. For them that cannot goe upright for pain in their Back and Reines 120. For the Stitch. ibid. For the Stitch in the side ibid. To heal Wounds ibid. For swelling of Joynts ibid. To knit Sinewes or Veines that are kickt or broke ibid. Ut virga hominis nunquam erigatur ibid. Verrucae Porri ficus 121. For Cornes ibid. For Warts ibid. For a Wound that bleedeth inwardly ibid. If men have any bloud within them of any hurt ibid. Aqua pro scabie tumore pruritu ibid. An vulneratus vivat vel non ibid. To destroy an Imposthume in what place soever it be ibid. For Warts 122. Oleum Nucum ibid. Unguentum Dialaehaeae optimum pro podagra ibid. For the Collick and Stone ibid. Aqua propter ulcera malum mortuum ibid. Aqua pro ulceribus ibid. Capitis dolor 123. For Bones broken in a mans Head ibid. Capitis dolor ibid. Corvi albi ibid. Ebrii ibid. Acetum ibid. Fistula ibid. Pro virga virili combusta cum muliere ibid. Contra exitum ani ibid. Contra fluxum 1â—4 Plaister of Paris ibid. An virgo corrupta ibid. Ut dens cadat ibid. Pro cumbusto cum muliere ibid. A Drink that healeth all Wounds without any Plaister or Ointment or without any taint most perfectly ibid. Unguentum genistae ibid. Unguentum Augustinum is good for all sore Legs that be red and hot ibid. Unguentum viride is good pro erectione virgae and for the Mormale no Ointment worketh stronger then this 125. Unguentum nigrum for Wounds heating and burning ibid. Unguentum Rubrum ibid. Contra Vomitum ibid. Fluxus sanguinis narium ibid. Contra Sciaticam 126. Freckles of the face ibid. To know if a man be a Leper or no. ibid. For ach in the loins ibid. For a scald head ibid. Ad ornatum faciei ibid. If the Liver rot ibid. For stopping of the Pipes ibid. Two more of the same 127. The Plague Water ibid. A Cordial water good for the Plague Pox Measels all kind of Convulsions Fevers and all pain of the stomack ibid. For a child that hath the Ague 128. For a burning Fever ibid. For the Jaundies black or yellow ibid. To bring down the flowers 129. To stay the flowres ibid. For the Mother ibid. For the stone ibid. For a cold cough Ptissick or any defect of the Lungs ibid. For a Stitch. 130. For a Consumption ibid. For the green sickness ibid. A speciall water for all Sores ibid. For the trembling of the heart 131. For a Flux of the wombe ibid. A Purging drink for superfluous humours for aches in the joynts sinews and for Agues ibid. A precious eye water for any disease of the eyes often proved 132. Tutia is thus prepared ibid. You must mix the Aloes with the water after this manner ibid. To bring the Camphire to pouder with the use 133. If there be any thing grown upon the eye ibid. For any Ague ibid. To make Pills to cleanse the back 134. A Bath ibid. For the cough of the Lungs and defluxions ibid. To cause a woman to have her flowers 135. For the Cough of the Lungs ibid. For Cramp or numnesse ibid. Fir a Cough Wind and a cold Stomack 136. For a Cough and a Consumption ibid. For a cold Dropsie ibid. For the Dropsie 137. For an Ague ibid. To comfort and strengthen the joynts and sinnews ibid. For obstructions of Liver and Spleen 138. For the Palsie in the head ibid. Oyle of Saint Johns-wort for ach and pain 139. For the knitting together and the strengthning of bones ibid. For the Courses ibid. A Cordial excellent good for Melancholy panting and trembling of the heart swouning fainting coldnesse and rawness of the stomack and also for many other griefs arising from a cold and moist complexion often proved with happie successe 140. A sudden way to make up this excellent Cordial ibid. Pills to purge flegm and winde 141 For the Gout ibid. My Lord Dennis his Medicine for the Gout ibid. Another for the Gout 142. To stay the Courses when they come down too violently ibid. For the whites ibid. To keep the body soluble and to purifie the bloud ibid. For the green sickness or yellow Jaunaies 143. An Electuary for the green Sickness ibid. An excellent Powder for the green Sicknesse ibid. Another 144. A singular purging Potion against the green Sickness c.. ibid. FINIS