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A54963	The plagues approved physitian Shewing the naturall causes of the infection of the ayre, and of the plague. With divers observations to bee used, preserving from the plague, and signes to know the infected therewith. Also many true and approved medicines for the perfect cure thereof. Chiefely, a godly and penitent prayer unto almighty God, for our preservation, and deliverance therefrom.		1665 (1665)	Wing P2337; ESTC R220438	7,678	21

the windowes and doores close shut left the ill ayre enter into it and hee must have regard that his sheetes bee cleane and sweete well ayred by the fire if perfumed or sweetned they be the better Therefore that use is good of Rose-cakes and sweete bagges in chests where they keepe linnen It is good also at night afore you goe to bed to ayre the chamber with a good fire or with a chasing dish of coles wherein it were good to strow some powder of Rew Sage Betonie or of Iuniper and such like When you walke in the morning first emptie the body of all superfluities and excrements take heed and beware the body bee not to costive at any time Therefore if of thy self naturally at any time thou canst not voyde out excrements thou shalt take either a potion of pils or else a Glyster or suppositary of pils take pilulae rufi or pestilentiales or Communes or else Take of Aloes epatick two parts Take of Amoniacum of each one part Take of Mirrh of each one part With white wine or with the Water of Seabious make pills of them which Minister daylie if you will one scruple at a time These pils do most resist putrifaction and have a very great vertue against the infecting of the pestilent ayre Blood-letting also is very wholsome for young folke and such as have great store of blood for it doth much coole the state of the body and bringeth it to a moderate heate and letteth out the corrupt humours which doe make the body more subject to infection bloud letting is very necessary in the time of infection and doth much profit and preserve health Also it is very ill to be too passionate or melancholy for the passions of sadnesse Anger hatred feare great cares and heavie thoughts and sighing doe much distemper the body and make it more unfit to withstand the infection but on the contrary it is very good to use joy and mirth with temperance Signes to know the infected HAving before shewed the naturall and originall causes of the plague and pestilence with the best meanes for the preservation of a mans selfe from it wee will proceed and shew first the signes whereby a man may best judge of himselfe whether hee bee already infected or not and the meanes to cure the sicke As concerning the signes that declare one to be already infected they are many First when the outward members are cold and the inward parts burning hot when there is a paine and heavinesse of the head and a great inclination to sleepe A wearinesse heavinesse and difficulty in breathing A sadnesse and carefulnesse of the minde a change of countenance with a frowning looke of the eyes losse of stomake and appetite immoderate thirst and often vomiting a bitternesse and drinesse of the mouth The pulse frequent small and deepe the Vrine troublous thick and stinking like beasts urine The surest token of all to know the infected of the plague is if there doe arise and engender botches behind the eares or under the arme holes or about the share or also if Carbuncles doe arise in any member sodainly for when they doe appeare they betoken strength of Nature Which being strong and mighty doth labour to drive the poison out of the body but if botches doe not appeare it is more perillous and dangerous for it betokeneth that nature is weak and feeble and not able to expell and drive out the venemous humours and then you must have respect to the signes before rehearsed Also these botches which doe appeare they doe declare which members of the the body bee infected above any other and doe thrust out venimous humours from them The infection of the plague entereth into a man in this sort In a man are three principall parts that is the heart liver and armes and each of these hath his cleansing place Therefore if they doe appeare in the necke they doe shew the braines to be chiefly vexed if under the arme-holes the heart but if they appeare in the share the Liver is most infected For a man having taken some venome it is mingled with the blood and runnes to the heart which is the chiefe part of man and the heart by kinde putteth the venome to his clensing place which is the arme-holes and it being stopt putteth to the next principall part that is the Liver and it passeth it to his cleansing place which is the Thigh-holes or share Likewise they being stopt passe it to the next principall place that is the armes and to their clensing places which are under the eares or under the throate and they being stopped suffer it not to passe out then it is mooved 12 houres before it rest in any place and if it bee not let out within the space of foure and twenty houres by bleeding it casts a man into an ague and maketh a botch in one of the three places or neere them The Cure of the infected of the Plague THe best way to cure the Plague is this when thou findest thy selfe to be infected and feelest the bloud flickering bleed in the first houre or within sixe houres after drinke not and tarry not above 12. houres from bleeding for when thy blood is so flickering the venome is then moving and not yet setled and after it is too late those that are fat may be let blood or else not If the matter be gathered under the arme-holes it comes from the heart by the veine Cardiall then bleed on the same side on the innermost veine of the arme commonly called Basollica but bleed not on both sides except it bee in both armeholes for that is dangerous and losse of good bloud And if the botch doth appeare behind the eares or above the chinne or in any other part of the face or neck you must let blood out of veine Cephalica on the same side let blood with cupping-glasses for that is the best or a horse-leach or horse haire But if the botch appeare in the share you must then bleed in the Ancle of the same side and then in any case bleed not in the Arme for it will draw up the matter againe But if there appeare no botch outwardly you must then draw bloud out of the same side where is felt the greatest paine and heavinesse and out of which veine the paine and griefe of the members afflicted will declare For if the members above the breast bee most grieved and afflicted cut the Cephalica veine But if the parts about the necke bee most grieved bleed in the Basillica or middle veine And if the nether parts bee most grieved and vexed bleed in the hamme or ankles And if nature bee strong and other things not letting draw out bloud aboundantly But if through age or for other causes you may not use bloud letting then you must fasten cupping glasses and use them And if you perceive the pestilence to infect or invade you at meate or upon a full stomacke then

THE PLAGVES Approved PHYSITIAN Shewing the naturall causes of the Infection of the Ayre and of the Plague With divers observations to bee used preserving from the Plague And signes to know the Insected therewith Also many True and Approved Medicines for the perfect cure thereof Chiefely a Godly and Penitent PRAYER unto Almighty GOD for our Preservation and Deliverance therefrom Printed at London by R. Raworth THE PLAGVES Approved Phisitian ¶ Of the Naturall causes of the infection of the Aire and of the Plague OF all the diseases whereunto the body of man is subject the Plague or Pestilence is the most terrible and fearefull and most contagious therefore wee must seeke all meanes both Naturall and Artificiall to preserve our selues and Families from it Therefore first wee will speake of the Naturall causes of this infection There bee two speciall causes of the Pestilence The first is An infected corrupted and putrified Ayre The second is Evill and corrupt humors ingendered in the body The aire is corrupted and infected divers wayes as Astronomers say by the influences aspects conjunctions and opposition of ill planets the Eclipse of the Sunne and Moone through the immoderate heate of the Aire where the temperature of the aire is turned from his naturall state to excessive heate and moisture which is the worst temperament of the Aire vapors being drawne up by the heate of the Sunne remaining unconsumed doe rot putrifie and corrupt an so with the venome the Aire becommeth corrupted and infected Also the ayre is often corrupted by the evaporation of dead carcasses lying unburied as it often chanceth in the warres as also by the evaporation of Pooles Fennes Marishes stinking and noysome sinkes and kenells A man falleth into the Pestilence by disordering of himselfe either in diet or with other exercises Therefore during the time of this contagious sicknesse hee must have a speciall regard to keepe himselfe from all outrages and surfets to wit from all excesse of meate drinke sweating bathes letehery and all other things that open the pores of the body and causeth the bad ayres to enter which entring invenome the lively spirits of man and infect and indanger the whole body And seeing it is evident that the Plague or Pestilence is not caused but through the breathing in of pestilent and corrupt Ayre there cannot be a more safe and present remedy to preserue one then by flying from that corrupt Aire there is no other meanes to avoid the pestilent Aire because whether wee will or no wee must draw in such Aire unlesse wee get us away into some other place where the aire is not corrupted nor infected but pure and good neither must you returne home againe from that place over-soone ¶ Observations to be used preserving from the Plague BVt if upon vrgent occasion of businesse you may not flie then have a speciall care that the house in which you must tarry be cept cleane and sweete without all kind of stinke filthinesse or sluttishnesse let the windowes be kept close and shut especially in clowdy and rainy weather that the pestilent aire enter not in but if you will open them doe it about mid-day You must come abroad as seldome as you can and not if you may except the element be cleere and bright but before you come abroad you must take some medicine which is able to preserve you from infection as the roote of Angelica Pimpernell c. chewed in the mouth Also you must make fires daily in your houses that thereby the corrupt aire that is in the house may be the better purged and amended for there is a marvelous great vertue and strength in fire to purge correct amend the rottennesse and corruption of the ayre Also if you burne Juniper Tamariscus Bay-leaves Rosemary and such like are very good to purge the house of all ill aires and to sweeten or take a Chafindish of coales and strow upon it the powder of Rosemary Sage Rew Betonie Wormwood Majoram Origaen Juniper-berries Mirrh Frankincence and Masticke Cipresse-barkes Angelica the root or leaves Lavander wood of Aloes Gallia Muschata Cloves or any one of all these are very good to aire your house withall It is best in hore weather to correct and purifie the aire with cold things as with Roses Violetts Water-lillies Vine-leaves and branches of Willowes c. and to sprinkle the floore with cold water mixt with Viniger Roses or Sorrell c. It is very good when one goeth abroad to have something in their hands to smell too the better to avoide those noysome stinkes and filthy savors which are in every corner therefore it is very good to carry in the hand a branch of Rew Rosemary Roses or Camphire and the smell of Viniger is very good or a Pomander somthing like this Take of Lapdanum three drachmes Take of Storax calamintae two drachmes Take of Cinomon of each a drachme Take of Cloues of each a drachme Take of Nutmegs of each a drachme Take of Wood of Aloes a scruple Take of Spiknard halfe a scruple Take of Mirh of each halfe a drach Take of Mastik of each halfe a drach Take of Frankencense of each halfe a drach Take of Muske of each three graines Take of Amber of each three graines Make them to powder and searce them and take Majoram-water and Rose-viniger wherein gumme Arabike is disolved and so make it up in a Pomander Seeing also that gluttony excesse and drunkennesse is at all times to be shunned so at this time of infection is most dangerous breeding the humors and corrupting the body Therfore they that love their health let them use temperance in their diet and choose such meats as engender good blood and bee not ready to putrifie and rot but bee of easie digestion and eate with them sharpe Sauces as Viniger or the juyces of sharpe things as verjuyce juyce of Citrons Lemonds Oringes c. Also use for pot-herbs Sage or otherwise Parcely Marjoram Balme Hysope Buglose Endiue Succorie and Lettuce Also hee must refraine from eating of much fruit for it doth breede corrupt blood and if he eate any it must be sowre Also hee must eate little garlike Onions or Leeks for these cause unkinde heate Also suffer not thirst greatly and when thou doest thirst drinke but measurably and that but small and thinne drinke or barly water or clarified whey sod with coole hearbs Another speciall regard must bee had in exercises vbi quomodo quando The place where must be in a wholsome and pure ayre and hee must use them temperately and moderately and must eschew all violent exercises as dancing running leaping and whatsoever such like kinde of exercise that causeth often breathing in of Ayre hee must refraine in the extreame heate of the day and in places where is much concourse of people As for his sleepe and watchings let them bee meane and moderate onely his sleepe must bee sufficient to suffice Nature and in a close Chamber well stopped and