a little Cassia for stronger purgatives will endanger abortion But these ought to be directed by a good Physitian Young children For young Children also with a Violet comfit for a Suppository dipped in sweet sallet oyle or else a little Cassia newly drawne dissolved in a small draught of Chicken-broth or a little Manna in the like broth or in posset-drinke Beware of Bathings Bathings especially in open standing waters within the Region of the Aire infected If Vrine or Menstrua stop Courses stopped repaire speedily to the Physitian for counsaile Fly Venus Venus as farre as you may for in these times she has but an ill name Sweat Sweat comming easily of it selfe and within dores the house being well aired is good so it exceed not But abroad it is dangerous Lastly it is good to keepe open all Issues Issues and running sores because Nature will labour to expell any venom to such a Common-sewer The fourth Point is Exercise and Rest Lazinesse encreaseth superfluous humours and over-violent labour wasteth away the nourishing ones But moderate exercise Exercise how ad ruborem non ad sudorem stirreth up and nourisheth Naturall heate helping Concoction and Evacuation if also it be used in seasonable times and convenient places What. The best Exercise is walking with a little stirring of the armes Where The Time in the morning and the place eyther in a pure ayre abroad or in a purified ayre at home in some large roome where is little or no company by the heate of their bodies and breaths to distemper the Aire But at all times beware of taking cold for great colds and rheumes doe easily putrid Feavors and they as easily prove Pestilent Sleepe and Watching is the fifth point Sleepe eyther immoderate or unseasonable hindereth digestion and causes crudities quels the vitall and dulls the Animall Spirits Watching also over-much dries up and inflames the good Bloud and weakens all the powers of Nature Let your sleepe therefore be seasonable and not superfluous Not upon your dinner unlesse custome commands it and then take it but vapping for halfe an houre or so sitting in a Chaire upright Three houres at least after a light Supper goe to Bed where let five or sixe houres suffice for sleepe Lye conveniently warme the Chamber dores and windowes being shut to exclude the night ayre But beware of sleeping or lying on the ground or grasse for the nearer the earth the more deadly is the Aire And the immediate stroake of the cold vapors rising from the ground is dangerous at all times The Sixt Point of Diet is Passions of the Mind All kindes of Passion Passions if they be vehement doe offer violence to the Spirits yea though they be of the better and more naturall sort As Laughter Laughter if unbridled doth runne even life out of breath and greatly perplexeth the Body in so much as the brest and sides are pained the breath is straitned and sometimes the Soule it selfe is as I may say laughed out of her skin For so it is recorded of CHRYSIPPVS Examples That onely upon the sight of an Asse eating Figges he brake into such an unmeasurable laughter that he fell downe and dyed And XEâ—XIS that excellent Painter who made a most curious beautifull Picture of the Spartan HELEN upon the sight of a very ill-favoured old woman burst out into such a profuse laughter that he laugh'd himselfe to death Now this is a disease of the Spleene called Risus Sardonius with which I have knowne some of my acquaintance not long agoe grieved But sometimes immoderate Ioy Ioy. lives not to the age of Laughter when it bindes the vitall Spirits so close together that it choakes the heart instantly For so SOPHOCLES the Tragedian receiving a wonderfull applause of the people for the last Tragedy he wrote was so over-joyed at it Examples that he became a Tragedy himselfe and dyed upon it The like is recorded of one RHODIAS DIAGORAS who when he saw his three Sonnes all at one time crowned with victory at the Olympian games ranne to meet them And while hee embraced them in his armes and they planted theyr Garlands on his head hee was so overcome with joy that he turned theyr Ensignes of victory into the penons of his Funerall Sorrow Sorrow on the other side afflicts the Heart disturbes the Faculties melts the Braine vitiates the humours and so weakens all the principall parts yea sometimes sinkes the Body into the grave Examples As ADRASTVS King of the Argives beeing told of the death of his Sonne was taken with so violent a Sorrow that he fell downe and dyed immediatly And so IULIA the Daughter of Iulius Caesar and wife to POMPEY when shee heard the tydings of her Husbands death made that houre the last witnesse that she had liv'd only to heare it Anger Anger is also so furious a Passion that it violently disturbes the Spirits and Faculties as appeares by the shaking and tossing of the Body too and fro the fierie sparkling of the Eyes the colour comming and going now red now pale so that all the humours appeare to be enflamed especially Choller and the Spirits hurried this way and that way sometimes thrust outward and presently halled in againe By which violent motions an unnaturall heat in the Spirits and corruption in the humours are ingendered Hereupon many times follow Burning Feavors Palsies violent Bleedings losse of Speech and sometimes Death it selfe Examples NERVA the Emperour being highly displeased with one REOVLVS fell into such a fury against him that he was stricken therewith into a Feavor whereof he dyed within a few dayes after WENCESLAVS King of Bohemia in a rage conceived against his Cup-bearer would needs kill him presently with his owne hand but his endeavour was his owne deaths man striking him with a Paâ—sey that shooke him shortly after into ashes VALENTINIANVS the Emperour in a fierce fury would needs destroy the whole Country of Sarmatia but his unruly rage brake a veyne within him and his owne life-bloud ended his bloudy designe In the yeare of our Lord 1523. A poore old man in the North part of Devonshire dwelling in a part of a little Village called Little Podderidge came to a Worthy Knights house Sir THOMAS MONKE by name dwelling in the same Parish which was called St. Merton in whose house I at that time was And the old man standing at the Buttery hatch to receive some Beere because the Buttery mayd did not presently fill his Tankerd at his call he fell into such a fury against her that with the very passion hee presently fell downe was taken up for dead was with much a doe by me recovered to life and sence but never spake againe and dyed within two dayes after Feare Feare likewise gathers the heat and Spirits to the heart and dissolves the Brayne making the moysture thereof shed and slide downe into the
of Athens that was called the Tunnell for his filthy delight in Drinke and drinking in a Tunnell What doe many in this Land too too many in this Citie but rise to Drinke drinke to fall fall a sleepe of necessity and ere they are halfe sober fall a drinking drunke againe That as VALERIVS AVRELIANVS the Emperor was wont to say of BONOSVS a Spaniard Such are borne not to live but to drinke If any of that Luxurious sect beate this time sober The dangers of Surfetting let them but listen to the testimonies of learned Experience and they will tell them into what bodily dangers they plunge themselves by this detestable disorder HIPPOCRATES has an Aphorisme to this purpose Lib. 2. Aph. 17. that Meate and Drinke immoderately taken causeth Sicknesse PAVLVS AEGINETA goes yet further saying De Re Medica lib. 1. c. 32. That the Veynes being filled too full are afflicted distended or else broken obstructed filled with winde and over-charged And of all diseases hee affirmeth That over-charging of the vessels is the worst In com 2. Hipp. de Natis 〈◊〉 GALEN affirmes that Drunkennesse and Crudities which arise from intemperance doe breed new diseases Li. de Causis Morborum cap. 3. And in another place he sayes Whereas Wine moderately taken increaseth Naturall heate as being his proper aliment by Drunkennesse commeth Astonishment of the Braine Falling sicknesse or some maime either to sence or motion And so the best meates which afford most nourishment being immoderately eaten ingender cold Diseases De Râ—movendis Nocumentis in Regimina Sanitatis Tract 4. cap. 1. But AVICEN more particularly layes downe the dangers that follow this over-repletion in these words Eating much nourisheth not but fills the Body with Crudities and raw humors stops the pores weakens the powers of Nature causes putrifaction mixed feavors short breath Sciatica and joynt Aches Ibidem cap. 19. Againe in another place hee speakes Drinking thus Much drinking of Wine in Sanguine and Chollerick Complexions over-heats the bloud and causeth Choller to superabound and by too much repletion of the veynes and Vessels there may follow a hot Apoplexie and suddaine death In Cold Complexions it breeds diseases of the Sinewes and that for two causes The first is the over-moystning of the Nerves the other the turning of the drinke into Vineger before it it can passe through the Body So the Nerves are by the former relaxed and by the latter corroded whereupon followes the cold Apoplexie Astonishment Senslesnesse Lethargie Palsey Trembling of the Limbes and convulsions of the Mouth And what these have said of Wine the same is true likewise of all other strong Drinkes I hope these lines will keepe such men the soberer in this dangerous time and in that sober tune the time may touch their hart strings so that Sobrietie may let in Religious meditations which continuall Drunkenesse has lock'd out of doores And then Repentance may draw them to GOD and him neerer to them and so they may become new Creatures Which the Father for his Sonnes sake grant In the meane time Restorative Diet for sick ones let those that are in health eate Flesh but the Sicke the Iuices of them rather because aliment must be made more easie and quicke for their supply And for such weake ones Veale Chicken Caponet Partridge and Pheasant are to be boyled till all the vertue of the meat be boyled out and then the Broth to be strained hard that the flesh may be left juicelesse so will all the strength of the meate be in the broth which you may spice with some of these powders following Take of Red Saunders halfe an ounce Cynnamon iij. drains and halfe Saffron halfe a dram Make them into fine Powder Or else Take of Cynamon halfe an ounce Cloves and Saffron of each halfe a dram Red Corall ij Scruples And the weight of all in Sugar Make of them a fine Powder But Women dum Menses ef fluunt must not use Saffron so much For such therefore this Powder is better Take Harts-horne red and yellow Saunders of each ij drams Cloves and Cynamon of each one dram Make a fine Powder Let all be more sparing in Dyet now then at other times Eate little and Drinke lesse But never goe out of doores Fasting Take therefore first of some Antidote Antidotes of which kind the Apothecaries shops are or ought to bee alwayes stored with these That is Theriaca Andromachi Theriaca Londinensis Venice Triacle London Triacle Mitridate Mithridatium Damocratis Electuarium de Ovo Imperatoris Antidotus magna Mathioli Confectio Liberans Dioscordium Of any of these take the quantity of a Nutmeg Confectio Alkernes Confectio de Hiacyntho Of eyther of these take the quantitie of an Hazell nut If you would choose to take a Powder rather Pulvis Contra Pestem Montagnanae halfe a Dram. Of Waters there is Aqua Angelicae Aqua Theriacalis Of eyther of these halfe an Ounce either with white Wine and a few drops of the juice of a Limon Or Aqua Bezoartica Langii Aqua Calestis Mathioli for the richer sort with a drop of Oyle of Vitriol in halfe an ounce of eyther But for such as abhorre the taste of Physicke and had rather take their Antidote in forme of Pills then otherwise let a skilfull Apothecarie make this masse of Pills Pillula Marsilii Ficini Rs. Zadoariae ligni aloes agrimonia croci Aristolochia rotunda Dictamni gentianae cort citri sem citri anascrup 1. Coriandri praeper tormentillae santali rub corallii râ—b spodii Myrobalan Emblic ana drach 2. Terrae sigill drach ij Boli Armeni drach 3. Cum Syrupo ex Acetositate citri fiat Massa Of which ten fifteene twenty or two shillings graines may be taken at once in one or two or three Pills as the party can swallow them in bignesse Those that are offended with the heate of Triacle or other of the hot Antidotes above named may use this Opiate made by an Apothecarie which is excellent for hot complexions Opiata frigida Palmarii Rs. Flor. buglossi borraginis cariophyllorum rosrub horum separatim conditorum ana unc 1. Terra Lemniae boli Armeni scobis cornu cervim una drach ij Margarit praepert drach 1. ambari grisei scrup ss Syr. de succo Buglâ—ssi q. s Fiat Opiata s a. The dose is the quantity of a Nutmeg For Women with childe Neither must women with childe be over-heated with common Antidotes Therefore theirs must be onely of Terra Lemnia Bole Armoniack Harts-horne Conserves and Syrups of Roses Violets and Betony Or a little Mithridate with twice as much conserve of Borrage or Buglosse Likewise the species de gemmis frig or of Diamargar frig in Borrage Buglosse and Carduus water Or else such may have this Antidote made for theÌ„ Rs. Cornu carvi Cynamonni nucis moschatae santalorum omnium ana drach 1. Rad. Angelicae tormentillae Enulae camp ana drach ss f. Pulvis subt
or side Sometime so violently that they have been eyther almost or altogether over-turned and after these and such like stroakes some have dyed and those that recovered escaped without humane helpe For this kind of Plague as it is rare so it is also by all Art of Man incurable The Remedy Therefore no Method but Repentance no Medicine but Prayer can avert or heale this stroake Of all Antidotes for the Body that Triacle which is made oâ— the Flesh of earthly Serpents is the best esteemed But for the Soule that only which is made of the Bloud of that Brazen Serpent that was lifted vp on the Crosse for our sinnes Hee that by a lively Faith applyeth the benefit of our Blessed SAVIOURS Sufferings to the sicknesse of his Soule shall undoubtedly recover if not health here heaven hereafter The Putrid Plague The Putrid Plague is a Popular Feavor venemous and Infectious striking chiefly at the Heart and for the most part is accompanied with some Swelling which is eyther called a Blayne a Botch or a Carbuncle or else with Spots called GODS Tokens This comes of Putrifaction of the Bloud and Humors in the Body which it pleaseth God sometimes to make the Instrument of his punishing Iustice mixing it with the Simple Plague before mentioned This Putrifaction may be caused by the Influence of the Starres The Causes who doe undoubtedly worke upon all sublunarie bodies For Astrologers are of opinion that if Saturne and Mars have dominion especially under Artes Sagitarius The Starres and Capricorn a Pestilence is shortly to be expected Or if these two the most Malevolent be in Opposition to the gentle Planet Iupiter as the Poet singeth Caelitús imbuitur tabe â—ifflatilis aura Mars quando obijcitur Falcitenensque Iovi The Windes The Windes likewise are led into theyr motions by the motions of the Starres The Planets especially the Sunne by extracting the earths exhalations which are the substance of the Winds doe set them so on worke And the Windes are some by nature wholsome and some unwholsome The South-wind blowing from the Meridian is of nature hot and moyst and full of showers Now when by the influence of the Planets this Wind bloweth long and bringeth continuall raine it causeth much moysture in all Airie and Earthy bodies and so much the more by how much the milder it is This moysture being in such abundance cannot be digested nor attenuated by the Sunnes heat and therefore setling together it must needs putrifie and that so much the sooner because the heate of the Sunne not being able to extract all does inflame the remnant by which inflamation the putrifaction becomes the greater In this manner are the windes in cause and moreover they doe sometimes transferre the Contagion from one region to another as Hippocrates affirmes the Plague to be brought over the Sea from Aethiopia into Greece by the South-wind The Cure of these Causes is the same with the former Now if the Starres be pestilently bent against us neyther Arts nor Armes Perfumes nor Prayers can prevaile with them who have neyther pitie nor sense nor power to alter their appointed motions But Hee that commandeth their course and altereth them at his pleasure Hee that made the Sunne and Moone to stand still for Iosuah yea drew the Sunne tenne degrees backe for Hezekiah and caused the Starres to fight in their courses against Sisera He and He onely is able to heale all infections that can arise from their influences The Cure of this Cause therefore is the same with the former Common Causes Other Causes there be also of this Putrid Plague Namely corrupt and unwholsome Feeding stenches of unsavorie and rotten Dung-hils Vaults Sinckes Ditches and dead Carions as the Poet affirmes Corpora faeda iacent vitiantur adoribus aurae These are the Maintaining Causes of the Contagion after it is begun So is likewise the unseasonablenesse of the Weather Quum tempestiva intempestivè redduntur as sayth Hippocrates When the weather is unseasonable for the season of the yeare being hot when it should be cold moyst when it should be dry and on the contrary This kind of Plague is by Art curable in as many as it pleaseth GOD to send and sanctifie the right meanes unto The former is most properly called The Plague The Putrid Plague is rightly called the Sicknesse being the immediate Stroke of Gods hand This The Sicknesse because infectious and many times Curable For this therefore doe I intend to prescribe a course of Physicke such as both my much reading and also my manifest Experience in the last great Visitation have preferred to my best approbation Wherein I will first open the way of Preservation The Method of this Treatise after that shew the Signes of being Infected and then the Course of Cure In the way of Preservation Preservation it is first necessary to be considered whether it be Infectious or no And then who are most or least subject according to naturall reason to receive this Infection This Putrid Plague The Plague is Venemous is as I have sayd iâ—â—he Definition venemous which is granted of all both Physitians and Philosophers Now by Venom or Poyson we commonly understand some thing that has in it some dangerous subtle quality that is able to corrupt the substance of a living body to the destruction or hazard of the life thereof This working is apparent in this Sicknesse by his secret and insensible insinuation of himself into the Vitall spirits to which as soone as hee is gotten he shewes himselfe a mortall enemy offering with suddaine violence to extinguish them His subtle entrance his slye crueltie his swift destroying the unfaithfulnesse of his Crisis and the other Prognostick signes and the vehemencie grievousnesse and ill behaviour of his Symptomes all being manifest proofes of his venemous quality For in this Disease the Seidge Vrine and sweat have an abhominable savour the breath is vile and noysome Ill coloured Spots Pustles Blisters swellings and vlcers full of filthy matter arise in the outward parts of the Body Such as no superfluitie or sharpnesse of Humors nor any putrifaction of matter without a venemous qualitie joyned with it can possibly produce But though it may thus by the Learned be acknowledged to be Venemous yet is it by many of the Ignorant sort conceited not to be Infectious It is Infectious To satisfie such I define Infection or Contagion to be That which infecteth another with his owne qualitie by touching it whether the medium of the touch be Corporeall or Spirituall or an Airie Breath Of this kind there are divers Diseases that are infectious though not so deadly as the Plague As for Example Itch and Scabbinesse Warts Measels small Pox the Veneriall Pox these by rubbing and corporeall touches doe infect Also soare Eyes doe by their Spirituous beames infect other eyes And the Pthisick or putrified Lungs doe by their corrupt breath