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A20865	A new counsell against the pestilence declaring what kinde of disease it is, of what cause it procedeth, the signes and tokens thereof: with the order of curing the same.; Consilium novum de pestilentia. English	Drouet, Pierre, fl. 1578.; Twyne, Thomas, 1543-1613.	1578 (1578)	STC 7241; ESTC S108183	25,412	76

those that came neere them partlye with an outragious kind of madnes and partly consumed thē with a pestilent quality There are some also that kyll a man presently as in Phrygia and there be many Welles and small Lakes and bituminous springes or standing waters and places where Metals haue beene digged and the stinking pudles of Auernus and Lucrinus whose lothsome vapour kylleth the Dogges that do but once licke of it bee it neuer so litle and stifleth the Fowles that flye ouer it Of these diseases hath Hippocrates intreated in his booke of the ayre places and waters The Epidemij sicknesses are taken by Hippocrates in two significations After one sort the Epidemius sicknesse is taken for some disease which taketh a great many of people away whether it bee flixe or tercian ague or some like disease which raigneth among the people in some one place howbeit for the more part the Greeke words Limos and Diathesis Limodes are taken for the Pestilence which inuading men wéemen children of all ages dispatcheth many out of their liues whether it procéede first of the ayre or by infection of which diseases Hippocrates hath intreated in his booke intituled Epidemiorum Wherefore what kinde of disease the Pestilence is what the substaunce thereof is and of what causes it proceedeth we must now declare The. 2. Chap. THE Pestilence is a contagious ayre not being the disease it self but the neerest and most principall cause thereof either raised with in the bodies or caught abroade suddeinly weakning the spirites the powers which gouerne the body The cause of this Pestilence the more parte of learned writers ascribe vnto the ayre but not all one waye for some are of opinion that the poysoning infection is sent down from the starres and planets and so dispersed through the ayre other say that the ayre it selfe is putrified the cause of which putrifaction they ascribe vnto the coniunctions and oppositions of the planets the Eclips of the Sunne and Moone and the coniunction of Saturnus with other euell planets by meanes whereof insue sundry tempestes great chaunge of the ayre and consequently thereof commeth diuers rottennes and putrifactions For the ayre hath manifest causes of alteracion as namelye the mingling of other straunge ayre with it or of some kinde of substaunce else which is most contrary vnto vs as are rotten vapors and thereof it putrifieth and waxeth pestilent and is chaunged into the nature of poison Whereby it cōmeth to passe that according to proportion this plague rageth sumtime among men sumtime amōg beasts and sumtime among grasse fruite corne And there be many thinges very common that are good for cattel wyl hurt men and contrariwise wyll slay cattel that wyll doo men good Like as many doo perceiue that the feeding on naughtie meates engendreth the plague as if a man should fall into the plague by vsing such euill diet as is commonlye séene in the dearth of corne and other victuals then immediatly shall he infect others and when that disease by going from one to other hath gathered strength and hath inuaded many of all ages and sexes it is called the Pestilence Againe they suppose that sumtime the ayre is infected by lower causes of thinges rotten and putrified as of carcasies vnburied wythred and putrified hearbes and weedes priuies dunghils and such lyke which afterwarde being drawne into our bodyes breedeth the plague as some doo write of the Putauian pyt Surely that this is the verye iust iudgement reuenge of God our barbarous nation being the verie vttermost land of this part of the worlde doth acknowledge and professe a most manifest testimonye whereof we haue in Ezechiel and in the second of the Kinges the fowre and twentye Chapter The. 3 ▪ Chap. THat secrete force of infection which our senses cānot discerne consisteth in an humour or some other kinde of substaunce for a force power of a bodily substaunce cannot so much anoy our bodies Wherefore I thinke it verye requisite for to knowe perfitlye vppon what part of our body this secrete poison exerciseth his tyrānie séeing according to the diuersity of the place where it setleth there ariseth not only diuerse kyndes of pestilences but also a diuerse order of cure is requyred for them For if it be receyued into the substaunce of the heart it resembleth the likenesse of an Hecticke or consuming feuer and many times it surpriseth the spyrites and kylleth the man presently As not yet full sixe yéeres since I my selfe sawe in the Pestilence which raged in Lyons where men fell downe dead to the grounde euē as they were going in the streets Sometime it resteth in the Liuer and according to the nature of the humour which it infecteth it causeth a feuer as namely the feuer called Synochus if it haue infected the blood and a burning feuer if it be choler and the like iudgement is also to bee geuen of the other humours A like plague vnto this whereof I speake not fullye fiftéene yéeres ago raigned in Eueris at Vernoyle whereas a Surgeon through the grace of God and mine instructions saued a great many at which time Iohn Renart the Apothecarye a man verye well learned vsed singular diligence towarde our cuntreymen and Citizens It hapneth also sometime that the poysned ayre being drawen through the nostrels into the braine first hurteth the same for sufficient proofe whereof shall serue the discourse which followeth The. 4. Chap. IT is well knowen by the doctrine of Hippocrates and the colledge of Arabians that the principall partes haue theyr voiding places issues or as they terme them Emunctories into which they clense and rid away whatsoeuer is noysom vnto them speciallye if those partes be strong and thereby as they saye is coniecture made of the part affected as for example if the botch appeare in the grine it is a signe that the disease is in the Liuer or in the partes beneath the midriffe but if the sore breake foorth in the arme pits they say that the heart and the partes aboue the midriffe are infected as they lykewise gather that the infection is in the braine if the poysoned swelling gather behinde the eares or in places thereabout although many times there chaunceth inflamation of the kernels about the eares called Parotides whē a more vehement heat hath lifted the matter vp higher as sayth Galen in the fourth booke of commentaries vppon the Aphorismes the. 75. Aphorisme Moreouer the vrine confirmeth this opinion of ours béeing sometime thick and troubled yealowe and white as we sée the same to be altered according to the humours offending and diuersitye of the partes affected as many times the skull being eaten with rottennes and the rime of the braine perished with a stripe or putrified and whē stoare of mater is gathered within the skull a man shall perceiue the vrine to be litle or nothing at all chaunged For when the venim féedeth vpon the sound substaunce

A new Counsell against the Pestilence declaring what kinde of disease it is of what cause it procedeth the signes and tokens thereof With the order of curing the same Imprinted at London by Iohn Charlewood for Andrew Maunsell in Paules Church yard at the signe of the Parrot To the Right honorable Syr Iames Hawes Knight Lorde Mayor of the Citie of London IT is the duetie of euery good Magistrate Right honourable not onely to establishe good Lawes for the preseruation of a common wealth but also to prouide for the health of the commons And since during the time next vnder God and our most vertuous Prince the gouernment of this Citie of London is committed to your charge I could not deuise a fitter ▪ Patrone for this booke intituled A new counsell against the Pestilence latelye by me Englished both for the good wyll I am assured you beare towarde the Citie and the welfare thereof As also for that vnder the auctoritye of your Honours name that it might be the more thankfully receyued and better lyked of within the same In whiche Citie this greeuous plague of Pestilence hath more fiercely raged at other times then now it doth God bee thanked therefore whome I beseeche it may do lesse and should do lesse at this present I suppose if at your Lordships commaundement the officers looked more nighlye vnto the precise execution of such holsome ordinaunces as are made in that behalfe as also for the cleane swéete kéeping of the streetes and other places by omitting whereof the ayre becommeth corrupt contagious bringing the Citie into obloquie the Citizens into contempt impouerishing the commons and depriuing many of Gods people of their lyues Some priuate causes there bee also not nowe to bée recited pricking mee thus boldlye forwarde to trouble your Honour with thys small trauaill both in respect of your vertues many wayes and for the worthines of the writer in whose commendation for want of time and place I wyll say nothing the worke sufficientlye praysing it selfe which notwithstanding I commit vnto your Honours most fauourable tuition with my selfe as a simple yet hartye welwyller and your Honours most humble at commaundement T. T. ❧ To the Right honourable the Lorde Vidam Chartres Prince of Chabanoys Peter Droet Phisition sendeth gréeting SO many are your benefits bestowed vpon mee Right honourable Patrone where by you would haue me bounden vnto you all the dayes of my life both in bestowing parte of your goods vpō mee and in imparting the rare gyftes of your minde that if I would indeuour to declare the same in wordes truely I were not able ▪ And first to let passe the giftes of fortune wherewith you haue sufficiently increaced my wealth I would willingly reherse the countreyes which I haue traueyled with you and what secrets of nature I haue learned by your means industrie what questions you haue proposed vnto me and other professours of Phisick drawne out of the deepest secrets and bowels of nature whereat both they I being astonied haue wondered at your singular learning and merueled at your sharpnes of wit yea I myselfe remember how ofte I haue reade ouer the workes of Hippocrates and Galen only to be able to satissie your demaundes who woulde dispute with more sharpnesse of witte then is accustomablye vsed in our publique schooles whereby you haue so pricked mee forward that whatsoeuer excellencie is in me in the knowledg of Phisick which I would haue to be taken as spoken without brag I acknowledg that I haue receiued it by your meanes only For by the helpe of you and your wisdome I haue had conference with the best learned Phisitions both in England Germanie and many other places and for your sake I haue learned many thinges of them concerning the secrets of our facultie and found them to bee true by practice and experience whereby I am able to cure many kindes of diseases Amonge all which secrets ▪ I haue gathered together manye rare and verie effectuall remedies against the Feuer quartaine against the infectious Pestilence to breake the stone and against certen other stubburne diseases neuer set forth in the writinges of any Phisitions as far as I doe knowe VVhich when I had imparted vnto certen well learned Phisitions my friendes and acquaintance I regarded them somuch that by oftē requesting of me they obtayned that I should setfoorth into light such speciall remedies as I had gathered against the plague to the commoditie of the miserable estate of mankind VVherfore Right honourable Mecoenas and Patrone though I bee mindfull of your good turnes on me bestowed wherwith you haue bounde me and all mine to be at your commaundemente for euer notwithstanding since it is the parte of an honest and liberall heart to desire to be more beholden to him to whom he is much beholden I would thus much request of you that this bookegoing forth vnder the salfconduct of your honourable name and being alreadie approued by your singular learning and presuming on your aucthoritie may come abrode into mens handes whereby the posteritie maye wonder at you and worthely praise you for being not onely a prince of warre but a student also of liberall sciences Fare you well From my studie the iiij of the Ides of Iune 1572. ¶ A new counsel against the Pestilence The 1. Chap. SIcknesses breede sayth Hippocrates partlye of our diet and partlye of our breath by drawing in whereof we liue They which come of our dyet are called Sporadici and by our breathing are engendred Endemij and Epidemii Wee terme those Sporadici which according to the diuerse sundrie trades of life do happen to this or that man as doth Bronchocele or rupture of the throate vnto weemen which dwell by the lake Lemanus and the inhabitants neere to Geneua by drinking snowie water Lykewyse great and swelling myltes by drynking of colde ysie and troubled waters as also they which vsed to eate of a kinde of pulse like vetches called Eruum were troubled with paine in the knees and such as fead on other kinde of pulse became weake in the thies Of these diseases hath Hippocrates intreated in his bok● of the diet in sharpe sicknesses as Galen is auctour in his commentary vpon the ninth sentence of the second booke of sharpe sicknesses And they were called Sporadici diseases of the Ilands named Sporadas which lye stragling as it were here there dispersed and as Galen lykewise in the third booke of the administration of Anatomie and in his booke of the dissection of the veines calleth certaine veines which lye here there one not far from another vpon the skin by name of Sporadas The sicknesses called Endemij be they which by reason of the contagion of the heauen or particulare ayre do alwayes molest some one place according as Aristotle reciteth in his booke intituled Of the world and dedicated vnto Alexander howe poysned ayres rose out of corrupt Dennes Caues which infected

had the plague and dressed them Of this Medicine Marsilius Ficinus speaketh There is also another such medicine and it is Christialline and red Arsnick the effect whereof I learned at Argentine and Basil in the yeere of our Lord. 1564. at what tyme the plague raigned almost ouer all Germanie But for as much as Georgius Agricola in his thyrd booke of the nature of things digged out of the ground and after him Theodosius Montuus haue sufficiently disputed of this matter I wyll onelye set downe the receite of the Medicine which is after this maner Take Arsnick christalline and red of eche a lyke quantitie beate them into powder whereof with the white of an egge or the Mucciladge of Tragagant you shall make a lozenge a finger thicke then folde it in a double péece of silke applye it vnto the region of the hart but beware that the moyst Arsnicke exulcerate not the skin and therefore in the morning you must diligentlye wipe the place or at what tyme so euer else the pacient sweateth for which cause it were good to put a fayre linnen cloath betwéene The Arsnicke being applyed strengthneth as wel the heart as the Mylt as Trallianus writeth but it worketh not that effect of custome as Theodosius sayth Surely in this one point God wonderfullye declareth his prouidence when he teacheth vs to applye strong and deadlye poysons vnto our commoditie as Galen sheweth in the eleuenth booke of simple Medicines of the wine made of Uipers and our men of late tyme haue applyed the oyle of Scorpions in the cure of the plague with so good successe that onelye with the annointing of this oyle they dryue awaye the euyll qualitye of the pestilent ayre by example of them which haue gréeuous vlcers in theyr feete D. Ambrosius Pareus geueth this counsell that they which wyll goe visite the sicke of the plague shoulde fyrst make issues in theyr armes and legges bicause nature vseth to purge out by those places whatsoeuer venimous humour is in the whole bodye dryuing that thether whatsoeuer gathereth vnto any principall part Moreouer an oyntment made of Laserpitium the fat of venimous Serpentes and Uitrioll is much commended or if of these be made a broade cake and folded in sylke and layd vpon the heart and arteries I haue also vsed the Linament which foloweth not only in the Pestilence but also in the quiuering of the heart which is thus made Take of the iuce of Cardiaca one ounce of Camfire halfe a dram of Saffron one scruple with as muche waxe as sufficeth make thereof an oyntment and therewith anoynt the region of the heart or make an oyntment of the iuce of Buglosse Borage and Saffron There maye also be one made to the same effect of roses violets red Saunders Cinnamom Cloues Lauender Flowers Orenge pilles the wood Agallochum which is prepared in maner following Take of the three kindes of Saūders Roses Wormwood Agrimonie of eche halfe an ounce beate them into powder and boyle them ouer a softe fyre an houre an halfe then straine the liquour and wring it harde through a linnen cloth then seeth it againe ouer the fyre vntyll it come to the thicknesse of Honie then put thereto the iuce of Lettice smalledge wylde succorie of eche thrée drams Camfyre a dram and with a lytle waxe make thereof an oyntment and anoint therewith the region of the Liuer After this order the oyntments which are prepared I better lyke of not onely in the Pestilence but also in other continuall Feuers then if the pouders were put in whole for else howe could those thicke and grosse pouders mingled with the iuces and oiles doo any good vnto the place Lyke wise there maye be made semblable oyntmentes for the heart of the roote of Lormentill Zedoarie Roses such lyke It is good also to drop into the eare a twoo or thrée drops of the oyle of Sage or Cloues with a lytle Muske I prepare oyles for that purpose after this maner Take of Nutmegges one ounce Cloues and Cinamom of eche halfe an ounce drye Sage an ounce swéete Almondes twoo ounces make them all into pouder and sprincle them with Aqua vitae and presse it hard as you would do oyle of Almondes and vse it as is afore declared and with the same oyle you may anoynt your tēples and nostrels It is good also to kéepe a péece of the rinde of a Citron in the mouth or Cinamom Zedoarie Angelica or such lyke Our husbandmen in the Cuntreye smell vnto hearbe grace it were not a misse neyther to beare in a spunge to smell vnto Cinamom water rose vineger rose water or this sweet ball the discription wherof insueth Take roses Styrax calamite Cloues of eche twoo ounces Arrace rootes of Florence thrée ounces Muske twoo scruples of these make a swéete ball Some stiepe Cloues in vineger al night eate them in the morning and washe their face arme holes and priuie partes with vineger The Phisitions of Germanie shaue the roote of the great cloat leafe and stiepe it in vineger a night or more thē they roule it in Suger and geue it in the morning to preuent the plague But I vse to laye the same roote to sooke in whyte wine or wine of wormewood and in the morning geue it to drincke with Sugar The. 9. Chap. THose things which are receyued in at the mouth to preuent the sicknesse are partlye Medicines against poyson and infection and partlye purgatiue remedies for wée hope that such purgatiues are onely néedefull for this purpose as do clense the first region of the bodye without moouing the humours For we must take héede least by sharpe and strong purgations we cause a laske which were verye daungerous in this disease For in a pestilent constitucion the humors be mooued by the smallest occasion that maye bée and forciblye doo run downe into the bellie such purgatiues whereof we now speake are Rhabard Agarike made in infusion in the decoction of such hearbes as are naturall good against this infection adding thereto the Syrupe made by infusion of Damaske roses of Uiolets of Succorye compound and such other lyke as in respect of the age custome and temperament maye bée prescribed by the skilfull Phisition Howbeit for children I vse Rhabarb thus prepared Cut Rhabarb into small slices moysten them with the vapour of whyte wine then stiepe it with Cinamom a daye and a nyght in rose water in Sūmer but in Wynter in white Wine and rose water mingled togeather and when the Rhabarb hath lost his colour in the water then dreane that water awaye and put freshe too and thus shall you doo vntyll the Rhabarb coulour the water no more then take those couloured waters and boyle them to the one halfe ouer a good fire for temperate heate then put vnto this liquour Sugar or Honye and boyle it againe vnto the consistence of a Syrupe perfectly boiled and then put the slices of Rhabarb