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A47273	Medela pestilentiae wherein is contained several theological queries concerning the plague, with approved antidotes, signes and symptoms : also an exact method for curing that epidemicial distemper, humbly presented to the Right Honourable and Right Worshipful the lord mayor and sheriffs of the city of London.	Kephale, Richard.	1665 (1665)	Wing K330; ESTC R26148	48,416	100

these are not sick at all and the most recover by good looking to The Carbuncle is a little venemous pustle with a broad compass of a deep redness upon it wonderful angry and burning like a fire-coal thence comes his name Carbunculus It riseth like a Blister producing an ash-colour'd or else a blackish crust sometimes it rises in many pustles like burnt blisters on the outward skin which being broken and the matter run out the like crusty escar grows over it till it falls off It appears in any part of the body or limbes many times on the breast and sometimes in the face with it alwayes go these evil companions itching inflammation and erosion for it is so full of burning poyson that it consumes the flesh and will in a short time if it be not well lookt to eat so deep and large a hole as if the flesh were hollowed with an hot iron It riseth from the same cause in the Botch but the blood is more hot black thick and feculent proceeding from burnt choler or adust melancholy The Spots otherwise called Gods Tokens are commonly of the bigness of a flea-bitten spot sometimes much bigger their colour is according to the predominancy of the humour in the body red or reddish if choler pale blue or dark blue if flegm leaden or blackish if melancholy abound but they have ever a circle about them The red ones a purplish circle and the others a reddish circle they appear most commonly on the breast and back and sometimes on the neck arms and thighs on the breast and back because the vital spirits strive to breath out the venom the nearest way In some bodies there will be very many in some but one or two or very few according to the quantity of the venom and the strength to drive them out They usually shew themselves on the third fourth fifth or seventh day sometimes not till death the venom yet tyrannizing over the dead carcase sometimes they appear together with the sores but for the most part without the cause is the venemous matter condensed and hardned in the act of penetrating the Pores of the skin if they be skilfully dissected in the dead body you may finde some half way deep in the flesh and some in the muscles of the breast have been followed with the Incision-knife even to the rib-bones The reason why they are thus congealed is the thickness of the venemous matter and the coldness of it for it is the most flegmatick part of the blood yet mixed also with the other humours according to the colours They appear in dead bodies most because nature fainting in her labour to thrust out the venom through the skin life's hear going out the privation thereof and the nearness of the outward air do congeal them presently and because many times at the last gaspe Nature gives the stoutest struggle it comes to pass they are not so far thrust forth as to appear till death All these symptoms must be lookt to very diligently and skilfully How to know whether the dead body died of the Plague though neither sore or Token appear HEnricius says those that die of the Plague are known from others by these marks The nose looks blue sometimes blackish blue as if it had been beaten bruised the like colour is in the ears and nails and their bodies are ever worse coloured then other dead bodies be But add to this one signe more approved by experience and standing with good reason viz. That whereas other dead bodies must be laid out strait while they are warm or else when they are cold they will be too stiff to be straitned in those of the Plague or poysoned either the flesh is soft and the joints limber and flexible after the body is cold which shews the vileness of putrefaction in all the humours and moist parts of the body How to know whether the person infected at the first or soon after be likely to be recovered or no. IF one be taken with the first signes of sinking of his spirits causless sadness shortness of breath on the sudden that he cannot forbear sighing yet knows no cause why sick-heartedness c. If this happen at his meat or presently after let him if he can vomit if he offer and cannot help him with a little warm water and oyl or dip a feather in Linseed-oyl or oyl of Scorpions and thrust it into his throat Then or if he be taken betwixt meals or fasting make this draught for him Take of Bole-Armoniack one dram powdred juice of Oranges half an ounce white-wine an ounce Rose-water two ounces If he vomit it up again it is a signe the venom is abundant and hath gotten great power over the vital parts therefore wash his mouth with a little white-wine and give him the same Potion again If he again cast it up repeat the wine-Lotion and this Potion again three times This is taken out of the second Canon of Avicen by Guanerius who testifies upon his own knowledge that never any that at first kept it without casting it up again dyed of that Sickness Let the infected take this following Medicine which hath been approved the best Remedy against the Plague Take three pints of Muskadine and boyl therein a handful of Sage and a handful of Rhue till a pint be wasted then strain it and set it over the fire again then put thereto a penyworth of long-pepper half an ounce of ginger and a quarter of an ounce of Nutmegs all beaten together then let it boyl a little and put thereto three peniworth of Triacle and a quarter of a pint of the best Angelica-water you can get Take of it always warm both morning and evening if infected two spoonfuls and sweat thereupon if not a spoonful a day is sufficient half in the morning the rest in the evening Keep this as your most estimable treasure for under God in the Plague-time you may safely trust to this since it never deceived any AN Excellent Preservative against the Plague Pestilence and all Infectious Diseases Noisome Smells and Corrupt Air Sea-fogs Kentish and Essex-Agues Scurvy and Dropsies prepared by R. Turner Med. Sold by Sam. Speed at the Rainbow neer the Inner Temple-gate at 2 s. 6 d. per Paper sealed Directions for the use thereof TAke of it morning and going to bed and at any time going abroad hold a piece in your mouth letting it there dissolve The quantity may be from the bigness of an Hazel-nut to a small Nutmeg FINIS Euseb Hist Eccle. l. 7. c. 11.

a mortal enemy offering with sudden violence to extinguish them His subtle entrance slie cruelty and swift destroying the unfaithfulness of his Crisis and the other Prognostick signes with the vehemency grievousness and ill behaviour of his symptoms do all declare by manifest proofs his venemous quality For in this disease the Urine and sweat have a loathsome and abominable savour the breath stinks and is noisom ill colour'd spots pustles blisters swellings and ulcers full of filthy matter arise in the outward parts of the body such as no superfluity or sharpness of humours nor any putrefaction of matter without a venemous quality joyned with it can possibly produce Now though this Disease may be acknowledged by the Learned to be venemous yet some ignorant persons may say it is not infectious To satisfie such I define Infection or Contagion to be that which infecteth another with his own quality by touching it whether the Medium of the touch be corporeal spiritual or an airy breath Of this kinde there are divers Diseases that are infectious though not so deadly as the Plague As the Itch and scabbiness Warts Measels Small-pox and that which is venereal too called Morbus Gallicus these by rubbing and corporeal touches do infect Also sore eyes do by their spirituous beams infect others eyes and the Ptisick or putrified Lungs do by their corrupt breath infect others that are sound But the Plague infects by all these wayes and such sick bodies infect the outward Air and that Air again infects other bodies for there is a seminary tincture full of a venemous quality that being very thin and spirituous mixeth it self with the Air and piercing the Pores of the body entreth with the same Air and mixeth it self with the humours spirits of the same body also For proof of this experience giveth us to understand that Garments Coffers nay walls of Chambers will a long time retain any strong scent wherewith they have been fumed Now the scent is meerly a quality and his substance is the Air which is also the vehiculum wherein it is seated and conveyed So doth the Pestilent infection take hold though not sensibly for the strongest poysons have little taste or smell yet certainly as experience testifieth for garments and houshold-stuff have been infected and have infected others As Fracastinus tells of a furr'd Gown that was the death of twenty five men in Verona when that City was visited who one after another wore it thinking still they had aired it sufficiently And if Alexander Benedictus may be believed feather-beds will keep the Contagion seven years Other experiences we have also of living Poultry which being applied to the sores were taken away dead though no ways crushed or hurt in the least But say some Then why is not one infected as well as another I have eaten in the same dish drank in the same cup and have lain in the same beds with infected persons and then too whilst their sores were running yet never had the Plague in my life By way of answer there may be two special causes for this The first and principal cause is the protection of the Almighty which preserves some as miraculously as his justice strikes others dreadfully Thus through his mercy he often preserves those that with faithful and conscionable care do their duties like Christians about the sick being warrantably called thereunto and not thrusting themselves either presumptuously or rashly into the business without a just and reason-rendring cause for God hath given his Angels charge over us to keep us in all our ways such as may be esteemed lawful In the next place every pestilential Contagion is not of the same nature nor hath equal conformity with every constitution Age or manner of live for some Contagion is apt only to infect the sanguine complexion some the cholerick some the phlegmatick only some children some youths some those of ripe age some antient people and where the seminary tincture hath no analogie there will be none or very little infection And first those are most apt to be infected that have thin bodies and large open Pores and whose hearts are so hot that they need much attraction of Air to cool them also they whose veins and vessels are full of gross humours the venemous matter being thick and therefore unapt to breath through the Pores their putrefaction is increased by the inward heat and so driven to malignity and thence on-ward to a pestilent quality Hence those bodies that are moist and full of phlegmatick humours whose veins are straight and therefore apter to intercept then entertain those well-concocted juices that would make the purest blood and the thickness of whose skin denyeth the transpiration of excrements these are easily polluted and infected And such are women especially women with child for their bodies are full of excrementitious humours and much heat withal which is as oyl and flame put together Also Virgins that are ripe for marriage are apt to receive infection and being stricken seldom or never escape without great means Quia spirituosum semen in motu eum sit facile succenditur vel quia intus detentum facile corrumpitur in veneni perniciem abit Their blood being hot and their seed retain'd for want of copulation the one will soon be inflam'd the other corrupted from thence infection Also young children in regard of their soft tender and moist bodies and likewise because as their meats are moister so they feed with more appetite then judgement Likewise the more pure and delicate complexions whose blood is finer and thinner then others is so much the more apt to receive mutation and the Contagion insinuates it self with more facility into all the humours but first and most easily into blood choler next more slowly into phlegm but very seldom into melancholy Those that are very costive and have not a frequent propensity to make water for the noisom vapours that are by these excrements engendred make the body apt to infection Those that fast too long their bodies being empty receive more Air in then they let out and their spirits being weakened for want of due nourishment they have less strength to resist the Contagion On the other side gluttons and drunkards let them argue what they will for the filling of the veins as they use to say to keep out the evil Air can never be free from crudities and distempered blood which easily takes infection as Hippocrates testifies Corpora impura quo magis aluntur eo magis laeduntur impure bodies the more they are nourished the more they are endangered Poor people by reason of their great want living sluttishly and feeding nastily and unwholesomly on any food they can with least cost purchase have corrupted bodies and of all others are therefore most subject to this Sickness At this present most of those houses which are infected are the habitations of poverty in some obscure close place in the Suburbs as towards St. Giles's