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A95997	Speedy help for rich and poor. or, certain physicall discourses touching the vertue of whey, in the cure of the griping flux of the belly, and of the dysentery. Of cold water, in the cure of the gout, and green-wounds. Of wine-vineger, in the preservation from, and cure of the plague, and other pestilential diseases: as also in the prevention of the hydrophobia, or dread of water, caused by the biting of a mad dog. &c. Written in Latine by Hermannus Vander Heyden, a physician of Gaunt.	Heyden, Hermann van der, 1572-ca. 1650.	1653 (1653)	Wing V63; Thomason E1305_1; ESTC R30733	79,878	247

Blood For it is certain enough as I have proved in my French Treatise that the Pains in the Gout are caused not by any Cold defluxion of Humors from the Head but by a Hot Humor which is either an Acrimonious or a Salt one proceeding from the Liver and gathered together in some neighboring part till such time as that Nature drives it forth by the Greater Veins into the Capillary as into certain smal Channels by nature designed for the conveighing of humors whence it is conveighed to the Joynts together with the Aliment provided for the nourishment of the parts of the Body and commonly first of all it seises upon the Great Toe and as the cause of the disease increaseth it afterwards seiseth upon other joynts also For this cause therefore my Counsel hath been that a Vein should be opened both in the Great Toe and also in other parts that are nearest to it that so the next Antecedent cause which lies in those Veins and fomenteth the Concomitant Cause lying neare unto it may be taken away which being removed the pain is either asswaged or altogether ceaseth For I cannot beleeve that the Concomitant cause lieth in the very joynt where the Bones are not wrap'd about with any Periostium which is of most exquisite sense for so all Motion must needs be painfull but instead of that are invironed with a Gristle and joyned together with Ligaments that are void of al sense so that the pain must therefore necessarily be attributed to the neighboring parts which are most sensible In the producing whereof seeing that this Antecedent Cause is also to be supposed to cooperate I am clearly of opinion that without any Letting of Blood either by way of Revulsion or Derivation we ought to fall immediately to the opening of a Vein upon the part it self unless the body being very Plethorical or the Patient young or the part lying convenient for Revulsion which had formerly been infested with the same distemper do require the same For in other Cases you must be careful how you let Blood both because my opinion is that people ought to be let Blood once or twice a year by way of Prevention and especially in the aforesaid Great Toe or what other part of the Body hath usually been most afflicted with this disease as also because that when it hath seised upon several joynts at once the violence of it seems to require the opening of a Vein where neither the Age of the Person nor any other impediment is against the same And seeing it is confessed and assented to by all Physicians that Contraries are cured by Contraries why may I not lift up my voice and make use of my Pen in the just Praises of this our Cold Water Especially seeing I am able to produce Experience on my side who is the best Mistress in all Sciences whatsoever and that back'd with Reason two I shall not here speak of Young men or of those of Perfect Age but I shall onely here have to do with Old men who by reason of the Saltness of Humors wherewith they commonly abound are very much subject to this terrible Disease many of whom when they either already felt or were in feare of these Tormenting pains have by my Counsel had recourse immediately to this drinking of Cold Water which drinking constantly for many days weekes yea and moneths together it hath succeeded so well with them as that many of them who have been very far stricken in years have found very great ease hereby and that too without any offence to the Stomack or hinderance of Digestion and have continued thus now for some years space together only drinking a draught of it off every morning which course they also resolve to continue while they live And some that had used to drink Wine constantly did the same drinking Water at their Meals but moderately And although that in an Inveterate Gout or where the Party is very old or where there are other either Manifest or Occult Causes hindering it I have said that the use of it would do very little or no good at all yet in very many of this kinde of patients where I have judged the use of it to be convenient I do here testifie to the world that I have had very good success And as for all other Medicines whether they be those they call Anodyna that is Mitigatives of paine or those they call Discussives that is such as dispel the cause of the disease in the Gout as I have made little mention of them in my French Treatise so in this where I commend so much the use of Cold Water and Letting of Blood do I make as little because as the aforesaid Mitigative Medicines by too much relaxing of the parts Affected do open an easie passage for the return of the sharp Humor back again upon them so the Discussive by over-drying the parts dispose them toward the Knotted Gout Yet those that either cannot or will not patiently endure the tormenting pains of the Gout and yet abhor to drink Cold Water or to be let blood upon the part Affected they may make use of the common Poultess made of White Bread which they must make of crums of the same or rather of the pouder of the Root of Althaea boyled in new Milk to a Consistence and pounded together with Oyl of Lilies or fresh Butter mixed with a small quantity of Saffron There are some that choose rather to make use of an Oyntment made of raw Yolks of Eggs and Rose-Water heated together over the fire and there are others that say they have found very much ease in putting their feet or hands into a Bath made of Castile Sope made as hot as they can endure it and when it begins to be cold they must take them out There are som also that in this case make use of the Lees of Red Wine An also Oyntment made of Spanish Wine and Oyl of Olives of each a like quantity and boyled till halfe of it be boyled away and so applied hot to the part Affected hath been said to have done good to some which having bin either Casually or seasonably applied nay sometimes if not of it self yet Accidentally have asswaged somwhat the pain Neither is this taking of Cold Water as I have prescribed it useful onely in asswaging and curing the pains of the Gout in the Feet Hands and Shoulders but also the Sciatica or Hip-Gout which is both the most violent and the hardest to be removed of all the rest And who ever shall but grant us that the cause of this Gout proceeds from the self same Acrimony or Saltness of Humors if not from a greater it need not seem so strange a matter to him if while it is yet but newly begun by the taking of Gold Water according to my Prescription either Well-Water or Fountain-water taking it an hour or two before supper because this disease uses commonly to rage most of all

manner also have the most horrid pains of the Shoulder Back and Loynes been cured by my prescribing this Application of Cold VVater as I can testifie from my own certain experience This Application of Cold Water to the parts about the Kidneyes probably may be good against the Stone in the Kidnies And as the Stone is engendred in the Kidneyes and increased also in the same by standing with ones back towards the Fire or if the Parties back be over-heated by lying in a Feather-bed so likewise may the Hot and Dry Distemperature of the same whether proceeding from the aforesaid causes or from any other be in all Probability cured by the Application of a Linnen Cloath dipped in Cold VVater and applied to the part for a pretty while together and so repeating the said Application several times And Children also that through extremity of Pain have not been able to stand upon their Feet by the aforesaid bathing of the Legs as far as to the Knees in Cold Water for a good while together according as I had given direction have often found very much good The Wind-Collick is cured by bathing the Leg In Cold Water By the said continued and often repeated bathing of the Legs in Cold Water and consequently by the repelling of the Blood and Spirits toward the Heart and Liver caused thereby the Wind-Collick hath been discussed although in this case I should rather make use of some other Remedy Neither can I think that any man will refuse to subscribe to the truth of the things before delivered that shall but when occasion is offered make triall himself of the said experiments at least of so many of them as I have said that I my self have proved and found to be true For there are some of them I confess which though being deduced from solid Principles they seem to promise answerable effects and happy success yet for as much as I have not made trial of them my self as where I speak of them I have faithfully confessed I have left them to the further Examination of others Certainly that which at first sight may seem very strange will not yet be found to be dissonant to Reason to any man that shall but seriously consider that this same Cold Water we speak of applied to and part of the body cureth the contrary Diseases of the same as it doth in the aforementioned Benummedness of the Toes and Legs by putting them into Cold VVater whereby the Blood and Spirits being driven back toward the Heart and Liver and after some reasonable long stay thereabout their forces being increased by reason of a doubled Heat in their return they overmaster the Extream Cold distemperature of the Feet and Legs And so again when at another time notwithstanding the Philosophers Axiome which saith that One and the same things so long as it continues the same necessarily produceth one and the same Effect the said Cold VVater being applied to the same part of the body that is Inflamed Bruised and Extreamly Swollen cureth also the Hot Distemperature of the same All which things being considered it was not without some speciall Happy Omen that I fell upon this Perswasion that many kinds of Fresh VVounds Cold Water very safely cures all Green Wounds without any Suppuration at all as well in the Head as in other parts of the body might be perfectly cured in the same manner by the First Intention by reason that by means of this Immersion into or Application of the said Cold VVater the Blood is repelled very far back and its Vessels are by this means closed up and so there is a hinderance of all conflux either of the Blood or of any other Humors to the part Affected which otherwise by reason of its weakness would there be both receaved and through the Heat and Pain of the said part would be also drawn thither and would dispose the same toward the generation of Purulent Matter and sometimes also would cause an Impostumation or an Ery●pelas neither of which is at all here to be feared as it often uses to happen when the Periostium or thin Skin that immediately enwrappes the Shin-bone is inflamed by a Wound or Bruise so that the neighboring parts come thereby to Gangrene and putrifie and all life in them being quite extinct and afterwards by degrees all life also throughout the rest of the whole body the Carkasse is in the end brought to the grave And these Accidents which sometims befall young people but old folk very often I have the more largely dilated upon that men might take the better notice of the most evident Danger in this case which yet by so facile and a ready Remedy may easily be avoided For it is very certain that the aforesaid Immersion in Cold Water if it be duly made use of so soon as the Wound is receaved or else within some few hours after it will infallibly and perfectly cure the same And I can assure the Reader that for these three and fifty years space for so long it is since I first lighted upon this way of curing of Wounds receaved upon the Leg which I had never before either read or heard of I have never known any of my Patients to have suffered hereby any great pain much less Death but all things have ever succeeded according to my Wish as I have always by most curious Observation found Thus in Autumn in the year 1674 in a Wound almost all along the whole Leg and that where the Party was very old too after he had by my Presumption bathed his Leg a good while together in Cold Water he had not the least feeling of any pain in his Leg neither was there any Purulent Matter bred in the Wound and that by reason of the so effectual Repulsion of the Blood and the other Humors and Spirits as we have shewed before by the said Cold Water Which least by the Patients too rash venturing upon Motion they should by chance be called down toward the part againe it will be necessary that he keep himself quiet for a while To the end therefore that in these and the like Accidents there may be an orderly and a secure way of Proceeding we must be sure to continue this Immersion at the least for half an hour or rather an hours space till such time as the Part Affected shall be reduced to its proper Temperature or be rather brought down to a Colder Temper then its own Natural is that so the aforesaid dangerous Symptomes may with the greater security be hindered Which being done there is nothing at all to be laid upon the Wound save onely some of that small Film or thin Skin that lies immediately under the Shell of an Egg enwraping the whole Egg about which you must be very carefull that it fall not off or be carelesly pulled off or removed from off the Wound till such time as that having lain there for some days or weeks space

doe with their Enemies have either in the same or else in those they have removed to yeilded up both the Victory and their Lives too to these Contagious Dieseases Fol. 184. That the Cures of such Diseases and their Symptomes as are performed by Whey Cold VVater and Vineger as also of the Disease called Cholera may and ought in some sort to be entrusted to those that yet are not Physicians Fol. 198. That the said Diseases neither can admit of Delay nor can expect the Digestion of the Malignant Humours yet neither can the Physician be alwayes presently with the Patient nor indeed in Contagious Diseases for the most part will he though he can Fol. 199. That these Liquors in the aforesaid Cures doe far excell all other the most Precious Remedies that are although Cold VVater is accounted a thing of no value and neither VVhey nor Vineger are of any great Price Fol. 205. THE FIRST DISCOURSE Wherein is treated of the Excellent Vertue of WHEY in the Dysentery and the Griping Flux of the Belly IN the Dysentery and Flux of the Belly that is accompanied with Gripings though there be no bloody Corrosion of the Guts I have especially commended Whey That in a Flux where there is no Griping the Patient must abstain from Whey but where there is with it neither a feaver nor any Gripings I have forbidden not onely the use of it but of all other Liquids also both Meats and Drinks as far as the Constitution of the Patient could endure yet have I allowed them to take some small quantity of Red Wine Where by thè way the Reader is to take notice that since I first commended the use of Whey in Griping Fluxes of the Belly many have without ever consulting the Physitian made use of it indifferently in all Fluxes whatsoever in so much that at Antwerp and Brussels it is by many made and sold onely to get money Whereas in my Treatise written in French I particularly and expressly forbid the use of it in those Fluxes that are accompanied neither with a Feaver nor Gripings in the Belly Because that in this Flux the Acrimony or Saltness of the Peccant Humor which is the true cause of a Griping Flux are supposed to be wanting The true Interna and External causes of the Griping Flux which are caused by the excess of the inward heat of the Body and for the most part of the Liver or else from the heat of the Sun Violent Exercise over sharp Meats and Drinks or else from Purging Medicines Which Hippocrates seems not to allow of either in or immediately before the Dog-days unless necessity so require because it is then an unseasonable time for Purging And no marvel for while the weather is so extream hot our Bodies are too much dried and consequently the Humors grow very Acrimonious and the Medicines themselves having also for the most part a peculiar Acrimony of their own do sometimes cause a Dysentery and therefore the same Hippocrates in another place insinuates That seeing Purging Medicines somtims cause the Dysentery upon the very day of Purging the Patient must drink a draught or two of Whey that when any would Purge their Bodies they should first make them moist and fluid And for this reason I advise my Patients at what time of the year soever they chance to take Physick upon the very day they take a Purge especially if they have any Gripings in their Guts to drink a draught or two of Whey that by this means they may repel the Acrimony whether of the Humor or of the medicines Which as it immediately cures the Griping Diarrhoea and the Dysentery it self so it is also a great Preservative against them So that it evidently appears from hence that Whey hath as wel a Curing That Whey is also a good Preservative as a Preserving faculty And certainly it is a wonderful thing how much VVhey excels all other Medicines in the cure of the Griping Flux if it be taken in a great quantity cold and at any time of the day or night either fasting or at meats or after meat or late at night and especially at the beginning of the disease when it ought to be taken in the greatest quantity And this is the reason that Dioscorides considering how agreeable to our Constitutions the nature of VVhey was though there were neither a Griping Flux nor any other Necessity yet prescribed the use thereof every Spring for some time beginning at first with a Pint and a half And this he did probably to allay the heat of the Blood which at that time begins both to grow hot and to encrease and withall to prevent those diseases that are caused thence such as are the Pleurisie Quinsie and the like And Hippocrates also himself in his Book De victus ratione in some diseases prescribes no less then 12. Cotylae of boild Asses Milk which is very serous and in case the Constitution of the Patient would bear it he saies that he may take 16. Cotylae and yet a Cotyla contains 9. Ounces We are to consider also that from our very birth we are brought up with Milk the greatest part whereof by much is VVhey Neither are we to be afraid of VVhey as being too cold seeing that a very Learned Author to whom yet I cannot assent maintains that it is hot for I conceave that it is cold in some degree Whey is cold and somewhat cleansing and withall something cleansing And I remember once when the Humor was very Acrimonious I prescribed my Patient that was sick of a Dysentery to take within the space of Four and twenty hours Eight cups of Whey which within the said space of time as appeared by exact observation he did with very good success And as by this means the further Corrosion of the Guts is stopped so is the growing of any Ulcer in any part hereby also prevented in case it be speedily taken Yet my Rule is to prescribe a Moderate quantity only of Whey in this Flux And those that have not any VVhey at present may make use of scim'd Milk which is made up of Whey and Cheese and that you may make a separation of them you must put some Rennet into the Milk while it is over the Fire and so you make your VVhey And for as much as there is no greater danger then from the delaying the use hereof you are therefore to have no regard at all as appears by constant experience whether your Patient be a Woman that hath her Courses upon her That no regard is to be had either to Women that have their Courses or are with Child That the Peccant Humor is to be purged out the very first day of the Flux or perhaps is great with Childe And therefore the very first day of the Flux the Peccant Humor is not onely by proper Medicines to be purged out but the Acrimony of it also is to be allayed by drinking a

you must abate some of the quantity in his Mornings draughts and his Wound also is to be washed very clean with the said Decoction being questionless first made warm and then rubbed with a litle Oaken Stick fitted for that purpose that so the Wound may be always kept open and consequently may be hindred from healing up And they think that during that space of time there needs no more to be done but onely that the Party must all that while be sure to abstain from eating either of Beans Pease or Hogs-flesh Now I confess I should advise that immediately after the Party is bitten besides the aforesaid Cupping-glass and Scarifications there should be some stronger Drawing Medicaments applied to the Part then those before spoken of and that according to the opinion of Authors and amongst the rest I should make choice of a Live Hens Fundament rubbed all over with Salt And I should also apply a Caustick to the Part and then come to Scarifications upon it that whatsoever Venom is yet left behinde by this continued Application of Attractive Medicaments may the more effectually be drawn forth as I have more largely shewed in my French Treatise where I have also set down some Remedies in this Case I must needs here adde that I know no reason why immediately after the Party is bitten when the Cupping-glass is applied there should Vineger also be made use of and if the Wound be very deep why the Cupping of the Part should not be reiterated also But for as much as that what I have here spoken touching the effectualness of his Remedy and the good success that have followed upon the Trial of it I have received onely but by Relation though I confess it was such as I might very well give credit to and have not at all made experiment of the same my self I shall therefore leave the Examination of the same to others neither dare I as yet perswade any to the Practise of it unless where other Convenient Remedies are wanting The Vertue of Wine Vineger in the Scurvy VVine-Vineger is also highly commended in the Scurvy and especially if it be mixed with the juice of the Blades of Wheat Which Mixture it is said to be of much greater Efficacy then if it be made either with Scurvy-grass of VVater-Cresses or the like which are in common use and this is of speciall use as well where there is only a Putrefying and Stinking of the Gums as in the height of the Disease it self when it is accompanied with all its Essential Symptomes amongst which this Putrefaction is a most inseparable one Now the Party is to take every morning Wine-Vineger and the juice of Blades of Wheat of each two or three Ounces for some certain days together perhaps ten or twenty according to the Exigence of the Disease and he must also use often to take of this Composition and hold it in his mouth for a good while together washing his Gums and some times gently rubbing the same therewith All which aforesaid things together with the Judgement of Authors when I had seriously considered and had withall compared the same with as well the Specifical as the Manifest Quality of Wine-Vineger they so much confirmed me in the Opinion I had before conceaved touching the Vertue of it against the Plague as that I at length thought fit to mix it with all Antidotal Medicines whatsoever as well such as are good to preserve from as those that are of use in the Cure of the Plague that so it might either prevent or correct the Putrefaction or Malignity of the Humors or by its Sudorifical Quality assisted by the Antidotal Medicaments might force out the said Humors through the Pores of the Body according as I have declared more fully in my French Treatise Now what the Plague is and what the Causes of it are as the Nature of it is very Occult and the Qualities of the other very Abstruse so is there a very different Account given of the same by Authors which yet all agree in this that the Plague is a very Extream Acute Disease caused by a Poysonous and Pestilential Air which by its most violent Antipathy seizes first upon the Spirits and so chiefly infesting the Heart it self hinders all the Operations of the Body and by its Destructive Contagion sometimes rageth so excessively that not onely Cities but also whole Kingdoms have thereby been depopulated and laid wast That this Disease therefore proceeds from a Poysonous or Pestilential Aire● appears plainly by this Definition Which Disease the Holy Scriptures testifie is often sent amongst us for the Expiation of the sins of Mankinde as diverse Authors also and those of the Gentiles too have always confessed the same to have proceeded from the Angry Gods which the Christians also to this day confesse to be sent from God as the Pagans suppose it to come from their Idols And hence it is that my Countrimen the Dutch by a pious interpretation call it De Gave Goots that is Gods Gift And that the same is caused also by other means then that of Gods a Vengeance as namely by some Malignant Exhalation issuing out of the Earth or coming from some Standing Waters or else from the Corrupt Vapors that proceed from Houses of Office and Dead Mens Carkasses is affirmed by diverse Authors Others are of opinion that it is caused by the Influences of the Malignant Conjunctions or Oppositions of the Stars to whose opinion I confess I cannot subscribe For it is certain that Almighty God created nothing at all that by its Malignity should tend to the Destruction of Mankinde but should rather some way or other be useful to it and it is as certain that even all Venoms themselves were to the same end created as appears plainly enough by that of Vipers in the Preserving from and Curing of the Plague where we see one Poyson is an Antidote against another Now I shall here adde a Corollary touching the Signs and Symptomes of the Plague None ought to be so improvident as to defer the taking of some Antidotal Medicine till such time as the Principal Symptomes of the Plague appears And first of all I shall advise all persons whatsoever that they be sure that so soon as ever the Disease begins to spread it self in the place where they inhabit they do no neglect the care of themselves till such time as the Principal Symptomes of it appear upon them as namely Tumors Carbuncles or Plague-sores breaking out upon their bodies Neither is it at all necessary that the several Symptomes that here concur should be Vnivocal especially when the Party dwells in a house where some lye sick of the Disease or perhaps have been buried out of it But it is a sufficient warning for him if he feel but any extraordinary Chilness about him or finde himself Feaverish or have any Pain in his Head or Loyns or any Heaviness of his Heart or be taken with

tot homines peste interire quòd plerique tardiùs Alexipharmaca usurpant multosque posse servari si ea citius antequam venenum humores corrumpere incipit assumerent Aliquoties enim observavi in pestilentibus constitutionibus quosdam cum se infectos sensissent statim sumptis Alexipharmacis ad sudorem se composuisse postea nihil mali amplius passos esse imò postridie ad consueta negotia rediisse Contrà si curatio protrahitur horae 8 aut 9 jam elapsae sint antequam Medicamentum aliquod propinetur centesimus vix evadit I am of Opinion saith he that the reason why so many die of the Plague is because they differ the time too long before they take any Preservatives and that many might scape if they had but had recourse to the same before the Venom of the disease had begun to corrupt the Humors For I have several times observed that in a Pestilential season some that have found themselves infected presently betaking themselves to Sudorificall Preservatives and sweating thereupon have immediatly freed themselves utterly from the same and the next day after have gone about their business again Whereas on the Contrary where the Endeavors for Cure have been deferred and put off for a matter of eight or nine hours without the taking of any Preservative there is scarsely one of an Hundred that hath scaped Now the Ordinary Dose of this Sudorifical Preservative is A Dram and a half of the Philosophers Egge The Quantity of the Sudorifical Preservative that is to be taken one Scruple of Confection of Hyacinth six Graines of Oriental Bezoar or ten Graines of Bezoar of Peru and five drops of Oyl of Sulphur Mix these together and take it in a Spoonful of Warm Vineger as hath before been shewed and drink upon it three other spoonfulls of Veneger Warmed And in defect of the Philosophers Egge they may take two Drams and a half of Old Treacle and half a Dram of Confection of Hyacinth and in stead of Bezoar Stone where the people are poor they may take some Grains of the Shavings of Vnicorns Horn. Extracts and Salts which are made out of Scordium Rue Carduus Benedictus and Angelica are used by many in this case taken to the quantity of about a Dram. The spirit of Antimony also so prepared as that it may neither cause Vomitings nor Going to Stoole but may provoke Sweating onely is here very much commended in which as in the former Extracts we may have much the greater Confidence if it be given with a little Warme Vineger and a Dram of Old Treacle at the least lest that part of the Medicine which is principally Antidotal as Vipers Flesh is here should be wanting And for this cause I chiefly prefer the aforesaid Preservatives Which also may be administred in a greater quantity where the strength of the Venom requires the same and therefore in this case they may take two Drams of the Philosophers Egge or three Drams of Old Treacle with the other prescribed Ingredients in like manner as Galen himself also and other ancient Authors were wont to prescribe half an Ounce of Treacle and in case that were not sufficient to expel the Poyson then they appointed the same to be repeated prescribing either the same or a less quantity according to the Constitution of the Patient And I know besides that at Gaunt in the year 1647. this Preservative was administred by Mr. Cortreau a Jesuite to another of the same Fraternity who had a Tumor risen under his Left Arme-Pit and two Plague-Sores broke out in other places whom within the space of twenty hours he caused to take an Ounce and a half of Treacle namely the first time he gave him Two Drams and eight hours after half an Ounce and after the space of other eight hours six Drams more drinking after each several Dose a lusty draught or two of Water of Carduus Benedictus and the like with such Syrups as are proper in this case in the mean time not neglecting the reparation of the Parties strength by convenient and proper Meats About the same time during the raging of the Pestilence there a Surgeon belonging to the Pest-house gave to one that was sick of the Plague and that with very good success too half an Ounce of Treacle with Quantity of the said Preservative seems much more proper to be administred at the first where the disease appears Evidently upon the Party then two Drams onely for this quantity may suffice in the beginning of the disease Although I shall not advise any to take so great a quantity nor yet an ordinary one when the Party Affected is very drowzy and given to sleep in which case some other Sudorifical Medicines may be administred And I have also heard from Persons of very good credit that both in this and other diseases too they have caused their Patients to sweat in a very abundant quantity and with very happy success by administring to them half a Dram of the Powder of a Viper which is thus prepared You must take a Viper and put it in whole and alive with its head teeth tailè and bowels too into an Earthen Pot covered at the top in which cover there must be some holes made for Evaporation and thus you are to set it upon live Coals so that it may only be dried not scortched and this being so prepared may as occasion shal require be made into a Powder and be administred as other things are to be and as I have more largely related in my French Treatise with Vineger Warmed And it would not be amiss if one should adde to this a Scruple of Sudorifical Antimony as half a Dram thereof or else some few Graines of Bezoar And where these things are not to be had they may take five Ounces of Wine-Vineger warmed with a Dram of Nutmeg and a Scruple of Saffron and put them into a Bladder half full of warme Water and so apply it to the Lower part of the Belly continuing this Application so long till such time as some other Preservative Medicine that may be able if need be to cause the Party to Sweat in so great a quantity as in necessary may be procured And for as much as where the Patient is to Sweat in so great abundance as in this disease is very requisite his Shirt and his Linnen about him must necessarily be very Wet and therefore Authors conceave and reasonably enough that these being as certain Recaptacles of the Venom ought to be changed that so the Patient may be freed from the filthy Stench wherein he lyes wrapped up yet I advise all people that they should not be too rash in changing the sick Parties Linnen The Patients Shirts and his other Linnen about him is not to be changed unadvisedly but should rather wipe off the Sweat from them with Towels which are not fresh and newly taken out of the Chest but being