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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.

coming and going now red now pale so that all the humours appear to be enflamed especially choler and the spirits hurried this way and that way sometimes thrust outward and presently haled in again by which violent motions an unnatural heat in the spirits and corruption in the humours are ingendered Hereupon many times follow burning Feavers Palsies violent Bleedings loss of Speech and sometimes Death it self Nerva the Emperor being highly displeased with one Regulus fell into such fury against him that he was stricken therewith into a Feaver whereof he died within a few dayes after Wenceslaus King of Bohemia in a rage conceived against his Cup-bearer would needs kill him presently with his own hand but his indeavour was his own deaths-man striking him with a Palsey that shook him shortly after into ashes Valentinianus the Emperor in a fierce fury would needs destroy the whole Country of Sarmatia but his unruly rage brake a vein within and his own life-blood ended his bloody design Fear likewise gathers the heat and spirits to the heart and dissolves the brain making the moisture thereof shed and slide down into the external parts causing a chilness and shaking over all the body and falling upon the gullet makes one to swallow when they should speak It abuses the fancy and sences brings a Lethargy upon the organs of motion and condemns the heart to deadly sufferings As Cassander the son of Antipater upon the sight of Alexander the Great 's Statue was stricken with such a terror that he could hardly make his legs leave trembling so much as to carry him out of the place This Fear hath in it a very strange operation having bereav'd several of their senses on others diseases as a Feaver c. which Feaver hath afterwards turn'd into the Plague so that this Fear though it doth not arise from danger of infection yet it will draw it on how much more then doth the fear of the same cause work it Instead of bringing Examples for the proof hereof I shall only give you a Reason for it Fear of all Passions is the most pestilently pernicious for it enforceth the vital spirits to retire inward to the heart by which retiring they leave the outward parts infirm as appears by the paleness and trembling of one in great fear So that the Walls being forsaken which are continually besieged by the outward air in comes the Enemy boldly the best spirits that should expel them having cowardly sounded a retreat In which withdrawing they draw in with them such evil vapours as hang about the outward Pores even as the Sun draws towards it the vapours of the Earth And hence it is that fear brings infection sooner then any other occasion This therefore and all other passions by a wise watching over our selves be beaten off whensoever they but offer to set upon us But these are diseases of the soul whose Physicians are Divines They must purge out the love of this world and the distrust of Gods providence minister the Cordials of Faith Hope Patience and Contentedness and ordain the strict Diet of holy Exercises We that are Physicians to the Body are but Chyrurgions to the Soul we can but talk of Topical Remedies Thus have I run through the first part of my Method which is the way of Preservation now shall I discourse on the second part which is as followeth The Manner Signs and Symptoms of such that are infected by the Plague IT s usuall manner is at the first infection to strike at the heart which is apparent by the sinking and languishing of the vital faculties the whole strength of the body is likewise suddenly turned into weakness the vital spirits being greatly oppressed and discouraged whereas the animal faculty commonly remains for a while in good plight and perfect in the use of Sense Understanding Judgement Memory and Motion The Natural faculty also is not so presently hurt but there is concoction and all other functions performed by the Liver Stomack Guts Reins Bladder and other parts as nature requires though indeed in a little time the venom being very strong these and the brain are also overcome as appears by the symptoms that follow as Lethargies Frenzies Vomitings Fluxes c. Take notice therefore that as soon as the venemous matter strikes to the heart the Contagion hath now found out the Prince of the vital parts who if he want armour of proof to resist either of natural strength or forged out by Arts Cyclops the Physician is presently taken Prisoner by his venemous enemy who soon after takes possession of the arteries and veins In this conflict the Pulse which useth to be the truest intelligences of the heart 's well or ill fare becomes now languishing little frequent and unequal Languishing by reason that native heat lessens and a heat contrary to nature increaseth little because oppressed frequent from natures strife unequal partly from the Fever and partly from the malignant vapour that besiegeth the heart Concerning the Pulse thus writes Rodericus à Castro concerning the Plague that was at Hambrough Manus duns Medico porrigunt Pulsum quodam modo retrahuntur cum tremore quod à veneno sit cor ipsum pungente signum mihi diutina experientia indubitatum est ut eo solo saepissime pestilentem affectum cognoverim That he observed the sick stretching out their hands to the Physician to feel their Pulse they would after a certain manner pull them back again with trembling which might be from the venom pricking the very heart which was an undoubted signe he saith by daily experience by which alone he oftentimes knew a person infected pestilentially From this ground did I finde another that never failed me If in reaching out the hand the former signe appeared not then if I suspected it to be the Plague I would touch the Pulse something hard and if it were the Plague the hand would not fail to tremble and twitch back The reason is the stopping of the course of the pulse drives the venom something back to the heart by which is caused a kind of sudden Passion The next signe is the enemies Ensigne hung out at the windows the eyes I mean for then they will be various in turning and sometimes fiery shining the looks sad and the face changing colour which shew that the radical humours begin to vaste and the spirits to wax dry and enflamed Then followeth lightness or giddiness of the head drowth and bitter taste in the mouth which proceed from the superfluity of choler aggravated by the mixture of the venemous vapours vomiting likewise of vicious matter being according to the redency of any of the humours of flegme sometimes waterish of choler sometimes yellow or greenish of melancholy leaden or blackish But this is from the virulency of the venom vexing the veins and fibres in the coat of the stomack not from any strength of nature to expel the poyson as it appeareth in that no ease but