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A42397	A mite cast into the treasury of the famous city of London being a brief and methodical discourse of the nature, causes, symptomes, remedies and preservation from the plague, in this calamitous year, 1665 : digested into aphorismes / by Theophilvs Garencieres ...	Garencières, Theophilus, 1610-1680.	1665 (1665)	Wing G255; ESTC R16663	7,254	15

A MITE Cast into the TREASURY Of the Famous City of London BEING A Brief and Methodical DISCOURSE of the Nature Causes Symptomes Remedies and Preservation from the PLAGUE in this Calamitous Year 1665. Digested into Aphorismes by THEOPHILVS GARENCIERES Doctor in Physick LONDON Printed by Thomas Ratcliffe 1665. To the Right Honourable Sir JOHN LAWRENCE Knight Lord Maior of the City of LONDON With the Right Worshipfull the ALDERMEN his Brethren MY LORD It shall not be said of me that I worship the Rising Sunne for this sheet of Paper cometh to kisse your hands upon your declination And as for ye Right Worshipfull my respect hath been alwayes such to your Honourable Court in general and to all the Worthy Members of it in particular that the truth is I would have done it sooner but that I expected God Almighty would have been pleased to remember his mercy and to stay his avenging hand and that people would have been more carefull of their own preservation but seeing the calamity to continue and the infatuation of the Vulgar to be such still as to suffer themselves to be deluded by every frivolous praescriptions of Physick and perswasion of ignorant men I have here undertaken to rectifie their understanding and to shem them there is means in Nature both for the Cure and praeservation from this Disease and to this purpose I have forced my self to appear upon the Stage and to do that which no body hath yet attempted which is to give some fea short and perspicuous rules whereby every one may know how to cure himself and his family with a small charge My Lord and Right Worshipfull You shall find nothing but Truth in this Paper neither would I have been so impudent as to praefixe so many Honourable Names to a Thing that were illusory and of this consequence The only aim I have in it is the Publick good and that ye may know I am Your most humble and affectionate Servant GARENCIERES A Mite cast into the Treasury of the famous City of LONDON c. Aphorisme I. THE Plague is an acute contagious epidemical and poisonous Feaver accompanied with either a Botch a Carbuncle or Red-spotts like Flea-bites vulgarly called the Tokens II. That it is Acute is seen by the effects for it killeth within foure or five days at the most it is Contagious because its poison is easily imparted and communicated from one to another it is Epidemical because it seazeth upon all kind of people indifferently it is Poisonous because it slighteth all remedies by which other diseases are cured that proceed either from intempery obstruction or putrefaction III. Thoughthe Plague cometh unawares and seaseth upon a man on a sudden yet such is the infinite mercy of God and the providence of Nature that it giveth alwayes warning enough to any one that will be curious to observe it IV. The warnings are either a sudden Head-ache or a Vomiting or a Faintnesse with a chilnesse or a loosenesse V. Each of these Symptomes sheweth what part of the body hath been first infected the Head-ache indicates the Braines the Vomiting the Liver because of its proximity to the Stomach the Faintnesse the Heart and the Loosenesse the Stomach and the Gutts VI. When therefore any one upon a sudden and without evident cause findeth himself seised with either of these foure Symptomes let him conclude he is in infected and fly to remedies without the losse of a moment of time Nèserò sapiant Phryges VII The Plague is one of the easiest diseases in the world to be cured if it be taken within four hours after the first invasion otherwayes and for the most part mortal This is the chief and principal cause of so many mens losse If people would observe this rule I would undertake by the grace of the Almighty and without bragging I believe most men that know me will believe me to cure nineteen of twenty and therefore I say that people perish not so much by the difficulty of the cure as because God Almighty hath taken away their judgment that they should not see nor believe the means he hath appointed for them Quos perdere vult Jupiter priùs dementat VIII The causes why so few escape are these The scarcity of able Physitians willing to attend that disease the Inefficacy of common remedies the want of accommodation as cloaths fire room dyet attendants the wilfullnesse of the patient his poverty his neglecting the first invasion and trifling away the time till it be too late A vapouring Chymist with his drops an ignorant Apothecary with his blistering plasters a wilfull Surgeon an impudent Mountebanke an intruding Gossip and a carelesse Nurse IX Is it not a strange infatuation for people so to flight their lives as to cast them credulously upon the trial of a drop of I know not what of a water of I know not whom and to neglect those remedies which for the space of 1600 or 1700 years have been found grounded upon reason authorised by the best Physitians in all ages and approved certain by a constant experience X. Let every one beware of those that set up bills for the curing of this and other diseases Good wine needs no bush the wonders they promise lay an ambush to your purses and their care of your health is lesse then that of your wealth XI Let no body think that the causes of the Plague proceed from any Intempery in the elementary qualities of humane bodies or from any ordinary putrefaction It is either the immediate will of God who sendeth us that scourge for the punishment of our sins as appeareth in the holy Scripture by the Aegyptians and the Jews or from a peculiar and mediate disposition and configuration of the Starrs and Planets XII He that shall consider that the seasons of the year are not always equal but some summers are cool others hot others moist and so of the rest of the seasons That some years bring forth one kind of vermine others another Some a peculiar murrain to horses others to sheep which will not hurt mankind will not deny but that also some diseases may happen to mankind which will not be hurtful to beasts and that some position of Planets and Starrs may bring Warrs others inundations others pestilences c. which changes are most commonly preceded and forewarned by some extraordinary Meteor as this sad Plague hath been by the last unhappy Comet XIII If the Starres and Planets being in a benigne position do cheer up and preserve the life of all things why then being in a malignant aspect shall they not produce and send forth things that are enemies to our lifes Therefore let it be concluded that from whence comes first the safety and preservation of all things from thence also proceeds their death and destruction XIV As there is a peculiar disposition in the heavens which causeth and sendeth forth the seeds of Pestilence so there must also be a special preparation in Countries

and bodies to receive it Hence it is that some are more apt to receive the infection then others The causes of both these dispositions are above the knowledge of humane understanding XV. This malignant and occult quality of the Plague lieth chiefly in the spirits or spiritual parts of the blood hence it is that the patients are neither thirsty nor their urine altered unlesse there be some other distempers joined with it XVI In a pestilential constitution of the air there is scarce any other disease raigneth but the Plague or some few others that will turn into it by reason of the contagion and infection therefore most part of the diseases mentioned in the bills of Mortality as Feavers either simple or spotted griping of the Gutts Surfeits Toothaches and Wormes in Children Loosenesse bloody Fluxes c. let them be accounted pestilential and so be proceeded against accordingly XVII This pestilential Feaver being of different nature from all others and killing only by its malignity and poisonous quality and not by any preternatural heat or Intempery requireth also a peculiar way of cure which is by cordials sudorifick Antidotes all other evacuations as purging bleeding vomiting clystering c. either procured by art or accidentally happening being mortal The reason of it is that the intention of Nature for the cure of this disease as of all others which proceed from poisonous qualities is to thrust and expell the disease from the center to the circumference and so to preserve the heart which is the fountain of life What can therefore a Physitian who is but a minister and servant of Nature answer for himself if while she is busied about her work he goeth by his revulsions of purging bleeding clystering c. to disturb her and take her away from her intention and so to compell her in a manner to bring the disease back again from the circumference to the center Doth not even common experience teach us that if you broach a barrel of Beer whilest it is working you destroy the intention of Nature and the Beer will never be good for any thing What I say of the Plague let it be said also of the small pox XVIII Therefore assoon as any one findeth himself stricken with any one of the foresaid symptomes viz. a Head-ake Vomiting Faintnesse or loosenesse now that the times are contagious let him presently repair to a clean and warm roome and let a light fire of wood be kindled in the chimney to consume and destroy all the infectious vapours that proceed both from the air and the infected party Let the patient be presently put into a warm bed himself wrapped in a sheet and blanket having first put off his shirt that when he cometh to be dried you may not be put to the trouble of pulling of his we t shirt then give him one dragme of our Antidote dissolved in four ounces of Carduus posset and covering him with cloaths very warme all over leaving only his respiration free and putting a warm brick to the soles of his feet and another to his knees let him sweat as long as he is able or at least for the space of three or four houres and be not afraid he should faint if he hath breath enough XIX If it should happen as it doth commonly to those that are first taken by a vomiting that the patient should cast up the Antidote you must give him another dose and if he should cast this also give him a third and so continue still till he keepeth it once for he will never cast it up afterwards and though he should yet by having taken it so often some of the qualities of it will remain behind that will work their effect XX. Children that cannot or will not take the remedy must be compelled to it by powring it into their throat with an instrument called by the Greeks 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which is a kind of a spoon with a cover having a spout to put into the mouth and powre it down XXI The patient having sweated three or four hours the more the better you must give him a little more breath and begin to take off the cloaths by degrees and when you have dried him very well with warme cloths which all this while must hang by the fire with his shirt then pull away the wet sheet and blanket from under him then give him his shirt and after that drie his head and take heed by all means that any cold air should come into the room After you have dried his head sufficiently and that the party begins to cool give him to drink leasurely two ounces of our Cordial water which is of an admirable vertue in this case and also in all faintnesses surfettings and poisons This will refresh him so speedily and wonderfully that he will presently forget the tiresomnesse of his sweating XXII When he is quite cold give him to eat any thing he hath a mind too so that it be of good juice and easie digestion Let his drink be strong Beer lukewarm or some generous Claret-Wine for as we have said before this Feaver differeth from all others and whereas in others we substract meat and strong drink as much as we can we must in this allow them it being only a malignant quality in which good meat and drink cannot hurt but rather allay it as also because the patient would not be able to sweat twice a day in this manner which of necessiry he must do if he will save his life unlesse his strength be repaired with good nutriment XXIII This course of sweating twice a day must be continued for four days together or five at the most in which space of times all the pestilential poison will expire and if this be carefully done and attended there is no Plague so stubborn of any kind whatsoever but must yeild XXIV Seeing therefore that this way of cure is so easy so cheap and so quick I cannot but wonder at the impudence of many qui impune ladentes de corio humano promise the cure with a few Chymical drops Mineral Bezoart and such like trumperies and at the credulity of those that believe them XXV But because in reprehending others we our selves should not be found faulty and thought in this publick calamity to seek our own interrest by concealing what our Antidote is we do ingeniously and publickly declare that it is nothing but the Treacle of Andromachus vulgarly called Venice Treacle so much celebrated by Galen and so much authorised by the constant experience of all subsequent ages to which we have added a little of the tincture of Saffron for their sakes chiefly that have contracted the Plague by a fright and whom we have alwayes found the hardest to be cured because of the sudden and deep impression it maketh upon the vitals Saffron being one of the most noble Cordials and of the most quick and sudden dilatation XXVI This noble remedy called Venice-Treacle being taken in