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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47218	A brief treatise of the nature, causes, signes, preservation from, and cure of the pestilence collected by W. Kemp ...	Kemp, W. (William)	1665 (1665)	Wing K260; ESTC R6407	54,200	102

perswade them to the submitting thereto and have not in my Practise been unfortunate therein but have seen Diseases that have been exasperated by other Medicines beyond expectation cured thereby and do think it most commonly so excellent a remedy that many Patients admitting thereof would much shorten the time and lessen the cost and trouble of their Sickness and not stand-in need of one quarter of those Medicines and Antidotes those Preparatives and Corroboratives those Infusions and Decoctions those Pills and Potions Purges and Vomits Cordials and Bolus Juleps and Emulsions Extracts and Juices Waters and Spirits Salts and Oils Syrups and Conserves Electuaries and Powders Plaisters and Ointments Blisters and Glisters they are made to take and though there be many Medicines that will purge Flegme Choler and Melancholy yet none are yet known that will safely purge bloud or lessen it yet I cannot in this case of Preservation from the Pestilence advise any one to open a Vein but rather disswade them from it And because it may take better from another of more authority than my self I have gotten Iacob Sylvius in his Book of the Blague to deliver his opinion in plain English As for Blood-letting saith he it is no way profitable for the preventing of this Disease because the bloud being diminished the body is made more open and lyable to external injuries and the strength decayes by the loss of blood the food and treasure of life Of the same mind also is the most excellent Physitian Sennertus who though in the cure of most other Diseases he begins with Phlebotomy yet in this forbids it and the most learned Riverius is of opinion that bleeding causeth one to be infected the more easily as also to escape the more hardly it being in this venemous Disease as in those that have taken poyson who by bleeding draw the poyson inward and very difficulty are recovered and therefore upon the very suspition of being poyson'd most skilful Physitians abstain from letting blood Nevertheless they conclude that if there be any notable fulness of blood or necessary evacuation suppressed a vein may be opened upon 〈◊〉 account and then very sparingly but not in reference to the Pestilence And as to the present time of the year Galen forbids to let bloud in a hot and dry season of the Air. Of Purging and Vomiting Although as Hyppocrates saith in his Aphorismes That Those which are of sound and perfect health do quickly faint and grievously endure a purging 〈…〉 nor superfluous humor to draw out and work upon doth first dissipate the Spirits and then dissolves those parts of the body which are humid and moist and afterwards corrupts those which are solid and although as Crato saith there be no purging or vomiting Medicines which are primarily and directly opposite to the venom of the Plague yet because foul bodies are more subject to Infection than those which are pure and clean and the humours they abound with may disturb Nature and interpose themselves and take off and dull the Operation of any Cordials or Antidotes and being agitated by the Disease might flow and settle to some noble part and bring the party into a most grievous Fever Frenzy or some other Inflamation whereby he may be endangered as much as by the Plague There have been several purging medicines directed by Physitians and I shall prescribe these The Pills of Ruffus otherwise called the Common or Pestilential Pills are very excellent you may take of them once or twice a week when you go to bed the dose of them is half a dram for an ordinary constitution or a whole dram for a strong man You may have them at any Apothecaries or else make such like yourself Take fine Aloes two ounces fine Myrrhe one ounce English Saffron half an ounce make them into powder and with Venice Turpentine make them into pills and take half a dram or a whole dram as aforesaid The Aloes clears the Stomach from bad humors and the belly from worms the Myrrhe preserves the body from Putrefaction the Saffron cheers the Spirits and the Turpentine is good against the Pestilence Or else take this Dissolve an ounce and a half of Manna in six ounces or a little draught of spring water and one spoonful of vinegar warmed together on the fire then strain it and take an ounce of Venice Turpentine and put to it the yolke of a new laid egge and stir it about and mixe it and it will look like cream then by little and little put to it the liquor being first quite cold wherein the Manna was dissolved and stir it about and drink it up and keep warm ordering your self as is usual in other purges or vomits when it works upwards you may take posset drink and downwards broth If it had a pleasant taste those that know the vertue of it would never take any other medicine It is strong enough for any of the strongest constitution and for those that are weaker six drams or half an ounce of Turpentine is dose enough Women with child may use this Infuse a dram of Rubarb slieed six hours in six ounces or a little draught of Endive or Succory-water or Spring-water then strain it and put to the liquor one ounce or else two ounces of Manna and dissolve it over the fire and strain it and drink it up Children may take an ounce or two ounces or half an ounce of Manna dissolved in Succory of Endive-water or in Spring-water or Barly-water or Broth or Posset-drink But beware of strong purges and vomits which will sooner bring the Plague upon you than preserve you against it especially at this time when it is more probable that the Sickness is occasioned by the Corruption of the air than by the putrefaction of humors there having been no scarcity of provision whereby the poorer sort might have been necessitated to feed on unwholsome diet and therefore no necessity of taking any purging Physick I remember about four years since many were sick of a malignant Fever and the discontented party did attribute the cause to the keeping of Lent and eating of Fish what would they have said now if Lent had been strictly observed Of Sweating As purging vomiting and bleeding do draw in the humors and vapours from the circumference and outside of the body to the center and inside of the heart so medicines that cause Sweat expel them from the heart to the outside of the body and rarifie those humours into light and thin vapours which turn into a watery sweat as soon as they come out of the skin into the air and thereby drive out those humors and vapours which breed the Pestilence For which purpose it would not be inconvenient to take one or two drams of London or Venice-Treacle or of Mithridate or Diascordium or Confection of Iacynth according to the age or strength of the party or one dram of Electuary de Ov● in White-wine Vinegar or a draught of Posset-drink made of

as it were sweat at the approach or presence of the Pestilential venom and they are then to be dried at the fire or over a fume Take saith he of white and yellow Arsenick of each half an ounce the powder of dried Toads two ounces Mercury sublimed Wheat Flowre the Roots of Dittany of each three drams Saffron the Fragments of Jacynth and Emerald of each one scruple make them all into powder and with Gum Dragon dissolved in Rose-water make them into Cakes and dry them as aforesaid I need not tell you that you must not eat them but sew them in a little silk bag fastening it to a ribbon and hanging it about your Neck let it lie about the middle of your Breast You are to avoid all violent exercise and over-heating of your self for fear of growing fainty whilest you wear it I have known some of these worn in the City of Bristol in the time of the Plague and the parties sometimes would have little pimples like the Itch rise about the breadth of the Amulet in their Breast which they did rub and scratch but never had the Plague and are alive till now There are also some Physitians that praise Quicksilver as the best and prefer it before any other Amulet It s vertue was found out thus It is usual with the Italian women to wear Quick-silver in their bosomes enclosed in a Quill or Nut-shell against the drying up of their Milk because by attenuating grosse humours and rarifying thick blood in the veins which could not passe the kernels of the Breast the Milk is thereby increased Now it so fell out that during the Plague all those women that wore it escaped Infection and it hath since that grown in request and hath been fortunately tried several times And there be those which say they have known the shell break and the Quick-silver fall out at the very instant that the ware was infected and this might be by the super-abundance of the force and matter of the Contagion which so little Quick-silver could no longer resist or contain It is made thus Bore a hole in a Filberd or Hazel-nut and with a Needle pick out the kernel and fill the shell with Quick-silver and stop the hole with waxe and wear it in your bosome sewed in a little purse or bag of silk And whereas divers Physitians have not onely spoke but writ against these Amulets so likewise there are many altogether as learned that have us'd them and whereas some might question the receiving of any inward benefit by such external applications one may also ask them if they did never hear of pigeons applied to the feet and compounded mixtures to the wrists and plaisters to the Stomachs and Navels of sick Patients to draw out such vapours and humours which infest the body 'T is no difficult matter for an Apothecary to make a little ball which being held in the hand and smell'd to at the nose will extreamly purge his Patient Many have had their Bladder hurt by having a blistering plaister put to the Neck And Skenkius mentions some that pist blood by carrying Cantharides about them in their purse or pocket There be them that will tell you that the liver of a Frog applied to the heart will mitigate the fits of a burning Fever A ring made of an Elkes claw is good against the Falling Sicknesse and some have been helpt by wearing a Piony Root about their Neck It is for some good reason that Gold is given to those that are cured of the Kings-Evil Several restless and unquiet persons have found ease by wearing of a spleen stone The Aetites or Stone found in an Eagles Nest if worn above the middle of a woman with-child preserves her from miscarrying but if below the thigh doth hasten her delivery and if not then taken away her death A piece of a dried Toad sewed in silk and worn in the bosome helps bleeding at the Nose so doth the Heliotropian and Cornelian Bloud-stone worn in bracelets about the Wrists or Neck Why may not then such things whereof Amulets are made have operation against the Pestilence But if you fear the danger of having them near you because they are esteemed venemous it may be said that Glass taken inwardly by its cutting corroding quality may prove as deadly as Arsnick which being worn only outwardly may be as innocent as Glass and Quick-silver worn before your bosome may be as harmlesse as that behind your Looking-glasse The Plague is a venemous Disease and you were better wear poyson on the out-side of your skin than the in-side of your heart and though some have died with Amulets about their Necks so also have there with my Lady Kents powder in their bellies and the last liquor they have taken hath been Aqua Mirabilis and yet both cordial and harmless You know Out-works may be useful for some Garrisons though perhaps by carelessnesse they have been surpriz'd by the Enemy and have no way benefited that Town which they were made for to defend Of Antidotes As the Pestilence being the general and great Sicknesse as hath been formerly shewed doth comprehend in it something of the Nature of all other Diseases so we have hitherto already spoken of some general helps that belong to the cure of other maladies as well as of the Plague but because it hath in it something more than ordinarily opposite and pecullarly dstructive to the Vital Spirits we come now to speak of such Medicines which have a more than ordinary and especial vertue to resist its venome and preserve the heart and these are Antidotes which are to encounter the Disease not onely afar off where we may chance to meet with it as we go abroad but also neer at hand when it comes to assault us at the doors and seize upon us in our Houses And here 't is necessary to give direction What is to be done when there is one sick or dead in the House wherein we live This question may well be askt because the danger is great since you are more apt to draw in the infected air which the sick continually are breathing out yet if the sick recover the venome of the Disease is then conquered and dispersed and seldom any of that family fall desperately ill after the first hath escaped but this danger is far more when there is one lies a dying for it is observable that then many of the Family are infected since Nature in the sick doth by all means endeavour to drive out the venome by the breath and pores 'T is in this case as when a Lamp or Candle burns there is alwayes some fume that rises from the flame which would blacken any thing held neer or over it but this is very little offensive because the stinking noisome vapour is consumed by the flame before it can reach to any considerable distance but when it is just burning or blown out there comes from the the week or cotton a most