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A70159	[Logos alexipharmakos] or, Hyperphysicall directions in time of plague collected out of the sole-authentick dispensatory of the chief physitian both of soule and body, and, disposed more particularly, though not without some alteration and addition, according to the method of those physicall directions printed by command of the Lords of the Counsell at Oxford 1644 and very requisite to be used with them : also, certain aphorismes, premised, and conclusions from them deduced, concerning the plague, necesiary to be knovvn and observed of all, that would either prevent it, or get it cured / by Lionell Gatford ...	Gatford, Lionel, d. 1665.	1644 (1644)	Wing G335; ESTC R8380	35,555	37

care and diligence zeale and courage in chastening and correcting the daring actors of them but as Chrysostome once-spake I conceive this to be the best way of correction to beginne first with one part of the Law and see that that be observed and then to go on to the rest And with what part should ye begin first if not with that which is most transgressed and if it be rightly considered easiest to be amended Vp then in the name of God and sanctify the People by purging out from them this spreading sinne of cursing and swearing and proove the Lord whether he will not upon your banishing the Plague of God and other rash curses and oathes out of mens mouthes banish that Judgment of the Plague it selfe and other Judgements from this City The forementioned Father was bold to ingage his word credit to the Citizens of Antioch that upon their abstaining from swearing God would free them from that great Calamitie which was then upon them I dare not undertake so farre but it were well if you would please to make tryall whether God would do so much or not This you may be assured of for you have Gods owne word and promise for it whether the Plague shall thereupon be removed from others dwellings or not That love of yours to his name shall keepe you and your owne dwellings safe As for your Honours observing these Directions your selves it were too presumptuous a thought in me to expect that any advise of mine should be hearkened unto by you who have so many learned and renowned Doctors to consult upon all occasions yet where you find that I speake home to the purpose and God himselfe speakes the same though not for my sake yet for his daigne it the hearing I and the following too if you love your owne safety Howsoever if you shall but tolerate and approve these Directions so farre that others under your present charge who cannot many of them have accesse to those that are more learned and better able to counsell them or rather are affraid or ashamed to appeare to such how willing or ready soever to receive them may by that your toleration and approbation the Reverend Doctors not dissenting be fully satisfied that there is nothing herein prescribed but what is good and wholesome and will through Gods blessing conduce much to their health and preservation this will be ample honour and encouragement to Your Honours most humbly devoted Servant L. G. Certaine Aphorismes and conclusions from them deduced concerning the Plague necessary to be knowne of all that would either prevent it or get it cured AS there is a Corporall or Bodily Plague which is by Physitians defined to be A Common Epidemicall disease most acute contagious and pernicious that with its secret or close-lurking malignity and Spiritfull poison invades and infects the heart and vitall spirits with all other parts of the body suddainly and speedily overthrowing them by causing extreame putridnesse and raging distempers therein shewing it selfe at the last and for the most part in spots sores or Carbuncles together with other dangerous and deadly Symptomes So there is also a Spirituall or Soule-Plague a called Sinne which according to Divines is a transgression of Gods Law b causing death c temporall and eternall and may for its neare resemblance to the other Plague be further described in the same termes with it viz. An universall d or epidemicall disease e most acute f contagious g and pernicious h that with its secret or close-lurking i malignity and spiritfull poison k invades and infects c. 2 The Plague of the Soule is the originall or principall cause of the plague of the body l And therefore without all dispute the best and surest if not the onely course for avoiding or expelling the Plague of the body is to avoid or expell the Plague of the soule m No disease say Physitians can be taken away unlesse the cause be taken away and the cause being removed say the Naturalists the effect removes with it and the onely way that the Scriptures prescribe to get quit of any judgement is first to get quit of Sinne n 3 As the Plague of the body according to Physitians in their Physicall way is caused either by externall causes such as the consuption of the aire the contagious touch of some bodies or things c. or else by internall causes such as the putrefaction of the bloud or humours c. So the Plague of the Soule according to Divines in their Theologicall way is caused either by externall temptations and provocations and those principally of the senses o to some whereof the poison of the temptation is conveyed by the aire to others by some contagious touch p or else by internall corruption q the seed whereof is derived unto us from our Parents r And therefore if we would be preserved from the one plague as well as the other we must provide and furnish our selves with such antidotes and preservatives such cordialls and other approved remedies as are good and proper for the resisting and expelling of both sorts of corruption and putrefaction as well externall as internall And such you shall finde by and by prescribed in their due order 4 Not onely the Body-Plague Å¿ it selfe but also all the naturall or physicall causes thereof are themselves caused by God as the supreme and hyperphysicall cause t And therefore as we endeavour by Physicall preservatives to keepe and defend our selves against the naturall and second causes of that disease before it seize upon us and as we apply to our selves physicall medicines to cure us of it when it hath taken hold on us So we must not faile to addresse and apply our selves by hyperphysicall meanes and wayes to the supreme and first cause u who disposeth and ordereth both that disease it selfe and all its causes as he pleaseth x 5 It is acknowledged by the best of Physitians as a learned Doctor in that faculty Mathias Vntzer y informes me That although there are many excellent medicines found out and by reason use and experience of the wisest approved to be very happy and successefull both for the preventing and curing the Plague of the body yet it was never said written read nor heard they are the Authors owne words that any mortall man of all those that have beene or are could truly assume so much glory to himselfe as to say that God had shewne and revealed to him any true certaine Antidote or Medicine against it either to preserve man from it or to expell it from man but God reserves that skill to himselfe and that as some Physitians as well as Divines conceive because God would not have men to know any sure defence against that his just scourge of Sinne but onely in him and from him And therefore though we

Quintessence of Pearle of all ingredieuts that can be thought on viz● sanguis Christi the blood of Christ c Mix all these in the wine of Cheerfulnesse d and the water of true repentance e and take of it dayly more or lesse according as there is cause It never fayled any If for want of taking and making use of these preservatives mentioned thou finde all these or any of these dangerous Symptomes following As first A payne in thy head that it is a trouble to thee to lift up thine eyes to heaven f or to incline thine eares to wholesome instruction g or to bow thy head to God h or to thy superiour i 2 A swimming or dizinesse in thy head that thou knowest not or regardest not what or of whom or to whom thou speakest k and thinkest that other things move out of course when the fault is onely in thine own braines l 3 Overmuch waking when thou shouldest sleepe either to doe mischiefe to others m or to scrape together wealth for thy selfe n or to commit any other iniquity 4 Overmuch drousinesse and sleepinesse either when thou shouldest be praying o or hearing the word of God p or when thou shouldest be about the workes of thy calling q 5 Fainting or swooning whether it be at others tribulations r of under thine owne chastisement and correction ſ whether it be in beleiving t or praying u or any kind of well-doing x 6 Vomiting or pronenesse thereunto especially upon the eating of wholesome food y 7 Wearinesse without cause as with well-doing z or in suffering for Christs sake or thine owne chastisement a 8 Losse of appetite to that which is good b 9 Much thirsting after earthly things c 10 Extraordinary loosenesse either of body or minde d Upon the finding of any of these Symptomes especially divers of them concurring betake thee to thy preservatives prescribed both evacuative and Cordiall as thou lovest thy life And upon the taking thereof if thou sweat well though thou labour under it the more for the present it will very much conduce to thy ease afterwards and to thy preservation e It cost him that tooke thy infirmity and bare thy sicknesse f a terrible sweat g and unlesse the thought of that sweat the sense of thine owne condition and of Gods wrath together with the virtue and strength of thy Physicke doe provoke some sweas in thee I conceive thee to be in a very ill case little better then desperate But in thy sweating observe these rules I Consider that 't is not the violent or long sweating so as to weaken thee or oppresse thy Spirits overmuch that will do thee good but the kinde free sweating according to thy strength h 2 Doe not thinke all the danger over upon once or twice sweating for the subtetly of the disease is such that being once or twice sometimes oftner repelled from the heart and vitall parts it still lurkes in some secret angle of the body and will returne againe i unlesse it be more strongly opposed and therefore be sure to continue thy preservatives after thy sweats k 3 Take heed of sleeping too soone after a sweat for it is very dangerous l 4 Have a care of cooling thy selfe and be content to have it done as the great Physitian thinkes fit m Lastly take of thy Cordiall before prescribed lest otherwise thy strength fayle thee and indanger thee that way n Thus have I shewen thee the best meanes for preservation that I could recall for the present And if any Doctor Batchelor or other Practitioner in Divinity Physick can shew me any errour in any of these prescripts I shall willingly correct it Or if he shall prescribe any that are more accurate I shall amongst others most humbly thanke him for it Now for Curation I observe that that Reverend Physitian whose method I have kept the most close to of any's adds very little for the curing of the Plague to what he had prescribed for the preserving from it except it be for curing the botches sores or Carbuncles And as I apprehend he therefore doth so first because the same physicke especially the Cordiall Physicke that is good for preservation is as good as can be thought on in ordinary cases for cure only where need requires as it doth in the most the quantity of the ingredients must be augmented Secondly because mens tempers and constitutions as I before told you are so different and in a manner contrary and the poyson of the disease infecteth and corrupteth in such different wayes and degrees that 't is not good scarce safe either for Physitian or the parties infected to adventure upon any Physicke without the advise where 't is to be had and time permits of some able Physitian whom they shall please to acquaint with their particular present state and condition The like course upon the like reasons shall I observe in these my Hyperphysicall Directions For generall curative Physicke in generall cases where any are infected as who can say I am cleane o I know no better then what I have acquainted you with by way of preservatives onely the quantity of the ingredients and so of the Doses * is to be increased as there is cause And for particular cases I once againe as before advise every man that desires to deale safely for himselfe and would have his Physitian to deale so too by all meanes to repaire if he have the Liberty to some discreet learned Divine Physitian for his particular counsell concerning his particular state p and after his prayers to God to direct his Physitian aright in his counselling punctually to follow his counsell so farre as his counsell is agreable to Gods revealed will q And for botches and sores when thy infection and corruption is growne to such tumors r take for a great Onyon strong detestation ſ of the filchinesse and loathsomenesse of Sinne t and put into it instead of Rue as much bitter sorrow for Sinne u as thou canst possibly crowd it together with some of that Treacle which is made of those vipers which Christ himselfe slew viz Sinne the Divell Death the Grave and Hell x then heat it well at the fire of the sense of Gods indignation against sinne and sinners y and so apply it by the hand of faith z as hot as thou canst endure it to the tumour I dare warrant thee it will soone draw thy sore to an head and breake it But then thou must be carefull that thou wash that part well wherein the sore a is with some teares of unfeigned repentance b and bath it throughly in that fountaine which is set open for sinne and uncleanesse c and that will both cleanse and

heale thy sore be it never so foule and dangerous d When thou art made whole forget not to returne thanks to that great Physitian that cured thee e And sinne no more left a worse thing happen to thee f A Postscript of Gratitude To the Worshipfull Master Thomas Smith the late Loyall Major of the renowned City of Oxford Worthy Sir THese Directions published for the common good of this City and therefore dedicated to those Superiour powers which at this time have more then ordinary influence into the Government thereof could not passe quietly from my hand to the presse without giving you some particular interest in them both because I received besides other kindnesses the constant food that sustained me all the littletime wherein I was composing them as well as before and since at your table and so 't is but a due returne of that fruit which your bounty and liberality help't to foster as also because 't is conceived by them that know you that your good example in observing them will be no small inducement to others especially of your owne politie the more readily and willingly to put them in practise Other retribution though none more cordiall shall hereafter be made you if God make me able Let it suffice for the present that as you forget not to doe good and to communicate Sacrifices with which God is well pleased Heb. 13. 16. So that good which you have done and those good things whereof you have communicated are not forgotten by all those that have participated of them By all did I say nay I verily beleeve by none at all that are truly loyall and such onely as neare as you could were the constant partakers of your courtesie and hospitality for certainly they that in such times as these dare be loyall scorne to be ungratefull Let this poore commemoration of your rich bounty to such be an earnest thereof and what I and others of His Majesties Loyall Subjects are not able to requite without doubt that God for whose sake and cause you have done it will abundantly recompence into your bosome For which purpose Saint Pauls benediction That he that ministreth seed to the sower will both minister bread for your food and multiply your seed sowen and increase the fruits of your righteousnes 2 Cor. 9. 10. Shall be the daily prayers of Your much obliged L. G. PHYSICALL DIRECTIONS IN time of Plague DWelling-houses are to be kept cleane free from filth and ill smells the Windowes neare infected houses kept close with Glasse or oyled waxed paper that light but no infected aire may come in In houses farther from infection windowes open sometimes toward wholsome aire and wind Fires to be made in houses infected and the neighbouring houses and in Churches at times of publike Prayers and Preaching and at all publique meetings not in Chimnies onely but in moveable pannes the fires made with dry wood Oake Ashe Beech dry Vine-branches Willow Baytree Rosemary sticks c. Juniper Rosemary dryed Bay-leaves Angelica Lavender Sage Hyssope Marioram Thyme Mints Balme Pitch Tarre Rosin Turpentine Frankincense some of these cast on the coales to perfume the house Richer persons may have fuming candles or cakes made with Benzoin Storax Muske c. For which order shall be given by the Physitians if any please to have them and be not otherwise provided Oake boughs Ashe Willow Bay leaves Hysope Marioram Thyme Lavander Mints Rosemary Fennell Sage Wormwood Meadsweet c. may be laid in the Chimnies and Windowes Sometimes the fume of Vineger Rosewater and Rosemary and Cloves over the fire Wearing cloathes perfumed with juniper red Sanders or Rosemary hurned Going abroad or talking with any it is good to hold in the Mouth a clove or two a peece of Nutmeg Zedoary Angelica Gentian Tormentill or Enulacampana root in the hand a Sponge dipped in Vineger and Rosewater wherein Rosemary Sage Angelica or Rue have beene infused or a toast of browne bread dipped therein tied up in a linned cloath or the Sponge in a Juniper or Ivory box with holes For persons of better ranke Pomanders made of Ladanum Benzoin red and white n Storax Myrrhe Saffron Amber Camphyre Muske c. Go not forth early in the Morning nor fasting eate not much Sage and butter a Potched Egge with Vineger or such like will suffice be not late abroad at night In the Morning wash the Mouth with water wherein Sage hath beene boyled or infused and rub thy teeth with the leaves Take a spoon full of quicke wine vineger wherein wormewood chopped hath been infused Take Figges good and clean thirty Wallnut kernells pilled twenty if to be had greene Rue picked a good handfull Salt one spoonfull stampe them and incorporate them together take the quantity of a Prune a child as much as a Hasell nut More pleasing conserve of Wood-sorrell Borage Sage of each one ounce Harts-horne a dragme Bole-Armeniake two drams yellow Sanders halfe a dram Saffron the weight of 3d syrupe of Wood-sorrell as much as will make it into a most electuary take as much as a good Nutmeg twice or thrice a day London treacle the weight of 8d first in the morning with conserve of Roses fasting one hower after it treacle-water two spoonfulls with one dramme of Mithridate Confectio liberaus or Electuary de Ovo Dyet meats of easy digestion sauce sowre sharpe sorrell Lemon Vineger Verjuyce c. Forbeare Milky meats Custard c. Fish slimy as Eeles c. raw fruits and strong Wines excesse in meat or drinke is dangerous Fasting or much emptinesse is bad If there be fulnesse of bloud letting bloud is fit but not much rather repeated If the body be bound a Suppository with hony and salt If fulnesse of putrid humours Aloes the weight of 6d in the pappe of a roasted apple or pilles of Ruffus a dram once a Weeke For persons of quality other proper purges as the present condition shall require potion c. and an Issue or fontanell in Arme or Legge if there be cause and vomits proper if need be Vomits easy to be had sallet-oyle three spoonfulls juyce of radish-root one spoonfull or oxymell of squilles two spoonfulls oyle and posset drinke Exercise moderate Signes of infection appearing viz. fainting swooning vomiting or pronenesse thereto heavinesse wearinesse without cause losse of appetite much thirst divers of these concurring let bloud or purge or both as cause requireth the first or second day no botch or fore appearing Then defend the heart with Cordialls formerly prescribed Let the party sweat with Carduus or Marigold posset-drinke London treacle two drams or with wood sorrell water five spoonfulls treacle water one spoonfull and London treacle a dram and a halfe If a tumor botch or sore appeare let the inside of the arme thigh or calfe of the legge be blistered with Cantharides powder two drammes with vineger and leaven Take a great Onyon hollow it put