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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A33533	Hygieinē, or, A plain and practical discourse upon the first of the six non-naturals, viz, air with cautionary rules and directions for the preservation of people in this time of sickness, very necessary for the gentry and citizens that are now in the country to peruse before they come into London / by Tho. Cock.	Cock, Thomas.	1665 (1665)	Wing C4791; ESTC R24767	18,295	42

Cautions and Directions added but I intend no more then what are familiar practical and necessary Besides the chief business I aim at is the Preservatory part which as it consists in avoiding those things 1. That occasion Infection So 2. In fortifying the Principal parts against Infection The former we have done with and take it for granted as it is agreed on all hands that corrupt Air whether from Coelestial or Terrestrial Causes being drawn into the body is one principal cause of Infection especially in Pestilential times and because this Discourse is intended for People returning and already returned out of a good Air into a bad I shall only insist upon some farther means and Remedies as relates to the correcting Air infected and the preserving quo ad nos both by inward and outward means Persons from Infection To the first sort as general and more common doth belong the ringing of Bells firing and letting off great Guns Fires and Bon-fires made severally both with Wood and Coal as before directed the cutting open the Pipes in great Streets for the running of clean and fresh Water Allies narrow Streets and Lanes to be kept sweet and clean and free from the annoyance of Dunghils Jakes and other nastery the carkasses of Dogs Cats and other Carrion to be deep buried and not to lye rotting and poysoning the Air. Where the Air is thus corrupted we commonly see people there die in greatest numbers and where these greivances are not nor can be reformed 't is good to stay within doors as much as possible may be and to smoke the House well with Rosin Tarre Turpentine and other materials directed in the Colledge Books good large fires also in infected houses rather then in those that are free would be very advantageous to neighbours that dwell next to them Lastly leave no Window open to the South to the North you may in quiet pleasant and clear dayes but keep them all constantly close shut after the Sun is down in regard they only then draw like Cupping-glasses bad air into the rooms unto which they do belong neither go out too soon in a morning especially fasting or some Preventive taken of which hereafter nor be abroad too late at night not only because the Sun then hath drawn off its beneficence and blessing from the Earth but because people will make most bold then to be throwing out of doors and windows whatever infectious and noisom things incumber their houses Thus far for Generals and things more common against infected Air next are things more peculiar and special both inward and outward of which sort are Antidotes Issues Amulets and Odoraments under which are comprehended Balls Boxes Nosegaies Pomanders and all manner of Nasals The first of these we will reserve till the last and as for Issues they are without controversie of great value and worth and inferiour to no Topical application whatever If I should write all that they may justly challenge there would be no end of their consideration and I have and do advise all my friends Old and Young Fat and Lean Weak and Strong without any exception to use them this being the only 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the world may boast of Amulets have not as yet gained that universal and uncontrolled repute in the World Galen saith as Deleteries they are inimical to Nature especially if the party that wears them be given to much labour exercise or motion neither can I advise such if any with hope of good success to use them but suppose they be made of Alexeteries then Galen nor any judicious person doth or ever did dispute or question them And those that have written and argued not without cause against Deleterious and poysonous Amulets made of Toads Arsenick Quicksilver c. yet do they highly allow of such as are Alexiterical and Cardiack And such as shall deny their safe and effectual operation with this distinction deny for want of better understanding a manifest truth in common practice The next thing to be considered is the vulgar use of Balls Boxes Nosegaies Pomanders c. which to speak impartially and as I suppose most peoples experience by this time may tell them are poor impotent foppish and impertinent things the very form manner and moderum of them being insignificant people having them to seek and grope for when the occasion may be at hand or while it is past all persons are not nor indeed can any be so compleatly wise as to know the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the unluckie minute precise time and place when where and wherefore he should apply his nasal whereas this manner of application I now propound viz. in rubbing the Nostrils with some convenient Alexiterion is remedium perpetuum alwayes doing good sleeping and waking eating and drinking at home and abroad like a Watch wound up in the morning whether you think of it or no still goes on and doth its work The greatest consideration and provision that can be made will be little enough to avoid the occasions of infection which may surprize you instanti in a moment the twinckling of an eye ere you can say What 's this and therefore there cannot be too much done to keep the passages at which the Enemy must enter to take us And of Topicks and outward helps there is none extant as yet or ever will be thought on more effectual in stead of Balls Boxes and Nosegaies c. than the rubbing the inside of the Nostrills with a little Venice Treacle Mithridate but above all Diascordium as being more agreeable to the Tone and temperature of the brain or take a piece of Sponge or Wool cut it fit for the occasion dip it in Vinegar and smear it with Venice or Common Turpentine that it may stick and put it up the Nostrills And I do solemnly advise all persons that have any respect to their health and safety when they come within a mile or two of London to keep constantly a Lozange in their mouth how to use them is hereafter directed and to put up into their Nostrills some Diascordium if a little Bole Armenack be mixt with it 't is the better The Mouth and Nostrils being secured you are as safe as Natural helps can make you these being the two passages at which Infection must enter Continue doing this for three or four weeks at least longer is necessary but people grow weary of well-doing by this means there will be little or no danger in your coming to and living in the City And having made this provision I can confidently advise all persons Cito Tuto speedily and safely according as their lawful and necessary affairs shall permit to return to their former habitations But here a grand Query and Objection of the Times is to be taken notice of and that is Whether sweet or foetid scents are best against Infection That which occasions the scruple by all that I can observe is a supposition that sweet scents attract and

suppresseth and disperseth the Air and keeps off the malignacy if there should be any from entring their bodies and by this means I or any man that hath a lawful call to it might safely enter any Infected or Visited House This being done still keeping the Links burning let them make in every room good fires especially those they intend to lie in smoaking them well with Cloves Cinamon Benjamin Storax Cypress Cedar or Juniper Wood But the following Pastil may supply the defect of all domestick fumes upon all occasions whatever neither is there yet any thing as yet thought on more necessary and useful Next let them air well their beds whether they were or were not infected with such things as are of a drying mundifying attenuating and clensing nature and withal let them be appropriated to the Head Heart and Lungs To this end at Mr. Wilkinson at the Pestle and Mortar in Finch-Lane over against the French Church and Mr. Reeds at the Queens Arms in Fan-Church-Street I have appointed a Pastill which is to be light at the small end with a Candle and to be placed in an earthen Porringer set under the Bed the matteress being taken off that the fume may the better insinuate it self into the Bed all the while they are making stirring and throwing of it These Rotulae Pestilentiales or Pastils being often thus used as a fume for Beds will be found not only beneficial but convenient in regard being lighted at one end they burn like a match without any flame which may prove hazardous under Beds They do not only correct the malignacy of a Contagious Air but also refresh the Vital and Animal Spirits and is of great use for Consumptive Dropical Astmatick persons and such as are troubled with Catarrhs and Defluctions upon their Lungs being used not only as above directed but also to fume their night-Linnen when they go to bed I cannot also but highly commend the use of them in Churches not only upon this occasion but at all times hereafter and was it but once grown formal and customary as an Hour-Glass it would not without cause be contended for in future ages for more than a ceremony and nicety in Physick It is also at all times an excellent expedient in Courts of Judicature also for Shop-keepers to keep them constantly burning by them it would be found a very acceptable and rational Preservative and in all places of common resort where the corrupt putrid and tainted breaths of infirm and sickly persons doth in process of time Intaminate others which some do impute our frequent Consumptions in England very much unto Persons of worth and quality when they have tryed them and know the use and benefit of them I suppose will keep to them and therefore I have ordered them at very reasonable rates to be always in a readiness that all people may be the more encouraged to use them Those that are so extream poor that they cannot go to the price of these cannot for Infected Beds only do better then put a spoonful or two of Salt-Petre amongst five or six spoonfuls of Brimstone to be used as aforesaid Gunpowder also moistned with Vinegar if it could be safely used is good This being done they may securely having devoutly called upon God for protection go into their Peds eating the last thing they take one or two of the Lozanges hereafter mentioned if they rub the inside of the Nostrils also with a little Diascordium it will be the better And in the morning having thankfully worshipped their Maker à quo omnis salus medicina let them use some of the Preventives hereafter mentioned The third Caution That People would be very careful and cautious with whom they converse and deal not only because for some considerable time Infected persons will be frequent in all places with their running Sores and venemous breaths but because also the Goods Moveables Apparel and Housholdstuff of such persons as are deceased and places that have been infected do usually retain the Infection for five or six months or more especially Bedding Linnen and Woollen Oxford was in former Sicknesses twice infected by Commodities carried thither from London Those that will not allow this for an undeniable truth may inform themselves better by many deplored instances too tedious to be here inserted but above all 't is remarkable as upon strict enquiry hath been by some observed that the first occasion excepting Sin of this Pest in and about London was by a parcel of Skins brought out of Holland into St. Giles which by the contiguity and succession of second Causes mediate and immediate hath been propagated to this extremity neither is there any such Authentick Demonstration that it is so much generated by Celestial Influences as propagated by Infection taken and given as is the Itch Pox and Small-Pox amongst Men and Children the Rot and Murrain amongst Cattle and as in Hospitals Prisons and common Gaols Diseases are often generated continued and augmented just so by the steams and breath of dying and infected persons unadvised community with Nurses Bearers and Searchers c. the fomes of this Plague hath been held up and increased And that gross mistake the vulgar made in promiscuous community one with another from the observation of the Plagues abatement in 65. hath occasioned without doubt the destruction of many Thousand persons and had not an immediate Hand of Mercy from Heaven stopt the Execution of us it would surely have run on to our utter ruine If it be here asked Why then were not all persons equally surpized with the Pestilence that breathed in the same Air and conversed daily with sick people received their breaths attended their Cure and drest their Soars as Physitians Chirurgeons c It may be answered because all men had not the like Constitutions and therefore suffered not the same effects suppose for demonstration sic magna cum parvis mans body to be like Tinder but some more dispos'd to take fire then others sometimes the Flint sometimes the Steel sometimes the Tinder it self either too dry or too moist is the cause that twenty blows will not when at another time a touch will serve to set all on fire So sometimes mens bodies with a thought a look a word or sad story shall quickly be overcome and vanquisht whereas others like wet Tinder shall not take withal the Contingencies and Casualties that do attend them So that one great cause besides Gods Providence is the various accidents dispositions forms temperatures customs and inclinations of mens mindes and bodies or else all as well as one that were wet at the same time in a showr of rain should take cold fall sick and die all that were debaucht with Wine should fall into Feavers and have one and the same disease which upon the former and divers others considerations we see dayly to the contrary Multa enim conveniunt morbo quae non conveniunt Individuo There might be many more