cure which the Pox have they proceed of cholerick and melancholie bloud The cause of the Pox and Measels The primitive cause as Valetius saith is by alteration of the aire in drawing some putrified and corrupt quality unto it which doth cause an ebullition of our bloud The cause antecedent is repletion of meats which do easily corrupt in the stomack as when we eat milk and fish together at one time or by neglecting to draw bloud in such as have accustomed to doe it every year whereby the bloud doth abound The conjunct cause is the menstruall bloud which from the beginning in our mothers wombs wee received the which mixing it self with the rest of our bloud doth cause an Ebullition of the whole The efficient cause is nature or naturall heat which by that menstruall matter mixing it self with the rest of our bloud doth cause a continuall vexing and disquieting thereof whereby an unnaturall heat is increased in all the body causing an Ebullition of bloud by the which this filthy menstrual matter is seperated from our natural bloud and the nature being offended and overwhelmed therewith doth thrust it to the outward pores of the skin as the excrements of bloud which matter if it be hot and slimie then it produceth the Pox but if dry and subtil then the Measels or Males But Mercurialis an excellent writer in Physick in his first Book de morbis puerorum cap. 2. agreeing with Fernelius in his Book De is rerum causis c. 12. doth hold opinion that the immediate cause of this disease doth not proceed of menstrual bloud but of some secret and unknown corruption or defiled quality of the aire causing an Ebullition of bloud which is also verified by Valetius and now doth reckon it to be one of the hereditable diseases because few or none doe escape it but that either in their youth ripe age or old age they are infected therewith The contention hereabout is great and mighty reasons are oppugned on both sides therefore I will leave the judgement thereof unto the better learned to define but mine opinion is That now it proceedeth of the Excrements of all the four humours in our bodies which striving with the purest doth cause a supernatural heat and ebullition of our bloud alwaies beginning with a Fever in the most part and may well be reckoned in the number of those diseases which are called Epidemia as Fracastorius in his first Book De morbis contag cap. 13. witnesseth this disease is very contagious and infectious as experience teacheth us There are two speciall causes why this disease is infectious The first is because it proceedeth by ebullition of bloud whose vapour being entred into another bodie doth soon defile and infect the same the second reason is because it is a disease hereditable for we see when one is infected therewith that so many as come neer him especially those which are allyed in the same bloud doe assuredly for the most part receive the infection also CHAP. II. Sheweth to know the signs when one is infected as also the good and ill signs in the disease THe signs when one is infected are these first he is taken with a hot Fever and sometime with a Delirium great pain in the back furring and stopping of the nose beating of the heart hoarsnesse redness of the eyes and full of tears with heavinesse and pain in the head great beating in the forehead and temples heaviness and pricking in all the body dryness in the mouth the face very red pain in the throat and breast difficulty in breathing and shaking of the hands and feet with spitting thick matter When they doe soon or in short time appear and that in their coming out they doe look red and that after they are come forth they doe look white and speedily grow to maturation that he draweth his breath easily and doth find himself eased of his pain and that his Fever doth leave him these are good and laudable signes of recovery When the Pox lye hidden within and not appearing outwardly or if after they are come forth they doe suddenly strike in again and vanish away or that they doe look of a black blewish and green colour with a difficultie and straitnesse of drawing breath and that he doe often swoun if the sick have a flix or lask when the Pox were found double that is one growing within another or when they run together in blisters like scalding bladders and then on the sudden do sink down and grow dry with a hard black scar or crust as if it had been burnt with a hot iron all these are ill signs Avicen saith there are two speciall causes which produce death unto those that have this disease either for that they are choaked with great Inflammation and swelling in the throat called Angina or having a flix or lask which doth so weaken and overthrow the vitall spirits that thereby the disease is increased and so death followeth How to know of what humours this disease cometh If it come of bloud then they appear red with generall pain and great heat in all the body If they come of choler then will they appear of a yellowish red and clear colour with a pricking pain in all the bodie If they come of flegm then will they appear of a whitish colour and scaly or with scales If they come of melancholie then will they appear blackish with a pricking pain CHAP. III. Sheweth the meanes to cure the Pox or Measels THere are two speciall meanes required for curing this disease the first is to help nature to expell the same from the interior and principall parts unto the exterior the second is to preserve both the interior and exterior parts that they may not be hurt thereby For the first intention if the age and strength of the sick will permit and that the Pox or Measels appear not it were then good in the first second or third day to draw bloud out of the Basilica veine in the right arme if he be not under the age of fourteen years but the quantity must be at the discretion of him that draweth it either more or lesse as occasion is offered but for children and such as are of tender years and weak bodies it were not good to draw bloud out of the arme but out of the inferior parts as the thighes hams buttocks and the Emeroidall veines especially if the party be melancholie or else to apply ventoses to the loynes buttocks or hams which may boldly be used both before and after they do appear either with scarification or without as cause requireth which is a speciall good meanes to draw that Ichorous matter from the interior to the exterior parts but for sucking Children it were best to apply bloud-suckers unto any of the foresaid places which is a thing that may be used with more ease then ventoses neither do I wish either of them to be used unlesse necessity require it which is when
infuse it in one ounce of good Mithridate with as much good Venice Triacle let it be close stopped some few dayâ—… in the infusion before you use it then pour the spirit clear off and reserve it for your use But to discover what opinions other Phisitians have held of that and the like I have annexed hereunto their severall judgements hereafter that amongst so many choise Medicines they may select out the best and safest for their own preservations when need shall require And to give them the better satisfaction I have annexed out of some choise Manuscripts some approved Experiments of some of our London ablest Doctors as also out of some other Authors Severall opinions against wearing of Arsenick Amulets as Preservatives against the Plague THe poysonous vapours of Arsenick being sucked or drawn into the body when they find no contrary poyson with whom to wrestle with as with an enemy for in an infected body there cannot be health but we suppose him to be well whom we desire to preserve so those vapours must needs imprint a malignant and venomous quality on the spirit and heart most adverse and pernitious to nature And by Galens own doctrine all Alexiteries doe in a mannâ—…r if they be used too liberally greatly offend and weaken our bodies how can we then think that ranke Poysons and Dilaetâ—…ries such as Arsenick is being applied as to penetrate inâ—…o the noblest region of all other will no whit violate and wast our naturall vitall and radicall heat Galen libr. de â—…mp cap. 1â—… Nor did Galen or any of the antient Fathers and Professors of â—…hysick use to preserve from the Plague or any other poison by administring some other poison inwardly or prescribing outwardly Applications but proceeded by Antidotes and Alexiteries as will appear in libr. de Theriaca ad Pis. cap 16. Wherefore unlesse we will utterly disclaim or relinguish the method and prescripts of these worthy Antients and prosecute new wayes and inventions to oppose this man-yelling Monster we must attempt it not with Poysons but Antidotes And Galen defineth those to be Poysons which agree not with nature either well or ill affected at any time for though there are some Poysons which if they meet in the body with a contrary venome so fight with it and oppose it that both doe perish in the conflict betwixt them so that the party by their colluctation and strugling together escapes with his life yet all of them agree in uniform opinion together that where they meet with no opposition they ruine the party And therefore conclude that Arsenick worn by a healthy man finding not onely no contrary Poyson to make conflict with but no Poyson at all must necessarily thwart and oppose and make an onset on nature her self And to confirme their opinions I have purposely introduced the judgements of other learned Phisitians concurring with them Gerardus Columbus a learned Phisitian reporteth that it hath been observed that the wearers of these Amulets upon unusuall heating their bodies have fallen into sudden Lipothimies and Swounings with other fearfull accidents which continued upon them till the Amulets or Placents were removed from them and that others though not instantly yet after some time have by late and wofull experience discovered their malignity by falling into malignant and pestilent Fevers some of them ending with death Franc. Alphanus a Phisitian of Salerne relateth of one who wearing Arsenick and heating himself with playing earnestly at Tennise fell down suddenly dead Mattheus Hessus also thus writeth As Cordiall Bags or Amulets ought not to be disavowed so empoysoned Amulets can be no way commended nor doe I remember that ever any received good from them who abstained from other Antidotes But this I certainly know that divers persons who carry about them Quick-silver in a Nutshell by the vain perswasions of some Imposters have died of the Plague and the counsellours and advisers of such like Amulets have been the first have betaken themselves to their heeles confiding more in their running than cunning and yet these Quacks perswaded the ignorant people with glorious promises and protestations that whosoever carried Quick-silver or Arsenick about his neck should be as safe as if he had purchased a protection from the King of Heaven Historians also report that Caracalla though he were a wicked Emperour prohibited by publick Edict or Proclamation that no man should wear about him superstitious Amulets And Theophrastus the great not without cause esteemed Pâ—…ricles to have a crazed brain because he saw him wear an Amulet about his neck And hereunto Doctor Francis Herring an able Phisitian as a Corollary to what hath before been written addeth the experience of some London Phisitians who report they have seen foul holes made in the breasts of those that have worn those Amulets and have observed divers to die who have religiously worn them about their necks as well as others And whereas the venters and setters out of these deceitfull wares make them as a scout to discover the infection when it beginneth to seize on a man by clapping close to the heart to guard that principall part as the cheif Tower It is a meer deceit and collusion for whensoever the body is heated this event followeth necessarily though no other infection be near but the poysonous and venomous Arsenick itself whose salutation is rather Ioabs imbracing or Iuda's kissing than friendly preservatives Causes of the Plague There are two speciall causes of the Plague First An infected corrupted and putrified air Secondly Evill and corrupt humours ingendered in the body The air is infected when the temperatenesse of the air is changed from his naturall state to excessive heat and moisture which is the worst temperament of the air the vapours drawn up by the heat of the Sun being unconsumed rot putrifie and corrupt and so with the venome infect the air Also dead Carkases lying unburied as it often chanceth in Warres evaporations of Pooles Fens Marishes stinking and noysome sents and Kennels and Astronomers say Aspects Conjunctions and Oppositions of ill Planets and Eclipses of the Sun and Moon Also disordering ones self either in diet or exercises bringeth one into the Pestilence therefore in time of contagion outrages and surfets are to be avoided as also all excesse of eating drinking sweating bathing lechery and all other things that open the pores of the body and enter thereby ill aires which invenome the lively spirits Signes of the Plague The signes which declare one infected already are many but the secret token of all to know the infected of the Plague is if there arise botches behind the eares or under the arme-holes or about the share or if Carbunkles suddenly arise in any member for when they appear they betoken strength of nature which being strong laboureth to drive the poyson out of the body but if botches doe not appear it is more dangerous for it sheweth that nature is weak and feeble and not able to expell
and the Plague shortly after to follow Also by the beasts of the field we may perceive it especially sheep which will go mourning with their heads hanging down towards the ground and divers of them dying without any manifest cause known unto us Also when we see young Children flock themselves together in companies and then will faine some one of their company to be dead amongs them and so will solemnize the buriall in a mournfull sort this is a token which hath been well observed in our age to foreshew great mortality at hand Also when we see rivers of water to overflow without any manifest cause or suddenly vanish away and become dry And when clear well-springs do suddenly become foule and troubled Also when the small-Pox doth generally abound both in young and old people all these do foreshew the Plague to come CHAP. IIII. Sheweth how to prevent the Plague THere are three principall meanes how to prevent this contagious disease The first and chiefest is to acknowledge our manifold sins and wickedness unto almighty God our heavenly Father with a hearty repentance and amendment of our former sins committed against his divine majestie The second means is to fly far off from the place infected and as Rondoletius saith not over hastily to return thither again for fear of an after-clap which saying is confirmed by Valetius in these words Non enim morietur in bello qui non est in illo and the farther from it the safer shall we be yet were it a very uncharitable course that all which are of abillity should do so for then how should the poor be relieved and good orders observed but for Children it were best to send them far off from the place because their bodies are most apt to receive the infection as also for that they cannot so continually use antidots and preservatives which by their great heat may indanger them almost so much as the disease it self The third meanes consisteth chiefly in three points which are these Order Diet and Physicall helps For the first you shall have a care that your houses be kept clean and sweet not suffering any foule and filthy clothes or stinking things to remain in or about the same and in summer season to deck your windowes and strow your floors with sweet and wholsom hearbs floures and leaves of Mints Balme Penniroyall Lavender Time Majoram red-Roses Carnations Gelliflowers and such like for your windowes your floors to be strowed with green Rushes and Mints Oaken and Willow leaves Vine leaves and such like your windowes which stand towards the North and East do you alwaies keep open in the day time if the ayre be clear and that no infected and unsavory smell be near the same as Fogs dunghils c. and every morning before you open either your doors or windowes as also in the evening when you go to bed cause a good fire to be made in your Chamber and burn some odoriferous oâ—… sweet perfumes in the middest thereof as hereafter I will shew you or in stead thereof some Juniper Frankincense Bay leaves Rosemary Lavender Majoram or such like which you must alwaies have dried in a readinesse and so in the fume or smoke thereof to breath and perfume the clothes which you are to weare A good perfume in summer season â„ž Rose water and Vinegar of either six spoonfulls Rinds of sower Citrons and Lemons Bay-leaves of either the weight of two pence which is ℈ i. Camphire the weight of three pence which is Ê’ ss. The hearbs and rinds must be dried and put alltogether in a perfuming pan or instead thereof a peuter dish set on a chafer of coles will serve the turn Another good perfume in winter â„ž Red-Roses Majoram and Myrtles of either a little handfull Callamint Juniper berries Laudanum Benjamin Frankincense of either Ê’ i. which is the weight of seven pence The hearbs berries and Roses being dried must be made in grosse powder as also the gumms and so mixed together and when yee list cast some part thereof on a chafer of coales and receive the fume thereof CHAP. V. NOw having received the fume as aforesaid before you go forth of your chamber eat some Cordial electuary or preservative as hereafter you shall find choise which I have alwais used with good and happy success after taking of the Cordial wash your face and hands with clean water wherein you must put a little Vinegar and then if you list you may break your fast with some good bread and butter and in winter season a potch'd Egg is good eaten with some Vinegar and for plethorick and melanchole bodies it were good to drink a draught of wormewood wine in the morning fasting because it resisteth putrefaction in the plethorick and purgeth bilous matter in the melancholie An excellent good preservative which I have alwaies used with good successe â„ž Conserve of Roses and Borrage floures of either two ounces Minardus Mithridate Andromachus triacle of either half an ounce Dioscordium two drachms Dialkermes one drachme Powder of the seed of Citrons pilled one drachme Sirrup of Lemons and sower Citrons of either halfe an ounce Compound all these together in the form of an opiat you may eat hereof every morning the quantity of three beanes and drink a draught of Rennish wine Beer or Ale after it but for Children and such as are of tender years so much as a bean thereof is sufficient and give them onely Beer or Ale after it the taking hereof every second or third day will suffice if you go not into any suspected company Another excellent good preservative â„ž Kernils of Wallnuts and Figs of either four ounces Leaves of Rue one ounce and half Tormentill roots four drachms Rind of sowr Citrons one drachme right Bolarmoniak six drachms fine Myrrh two scruples Saffron one scruple Salt half a drachm Sirrup of Citrons and Lemons four ounces The hearbs roots and rinds must be dried the nuts must be blanched and the bolarmoniack must be made in fine powder and then wash'd in the water of Scabios and dried againe you must pound the figgs and wallnuts in a stone morter severally by themselves very small all the rest must be made in fine powder and so mix them altogether in the morter and then add thereto sirrup by little and little and so incorporate them altogether you may give this in the same quantity and in like sort as the other before Another very good â„ž Of the confection aforesaid made with Nutts â„¥ iiii Minardus mithridate four drachms Andromachus Triacle Ê’ ii fine terra Sigillata four scruples Sirrup of Limons â„¥ i. Compound all these together in the morter as the other before you may give hereof the weight of a groat or six pence every second or third day and drink a draught of Rennish or white wine after it in Winter season but in the heat of the yeer Sorrel water is best and in the Spring Scabios or Carduus
doe hold opinion that having once an Issue he must be constrained to keep it alwaies which is most erronious for then those which have had Ulcers running upon them some six ten yea sixteen yeers may not be cured without some Issue to be made in some other place but therein they deceive themselves for my self by good proof have often found the contrary in divers people which I have cured some six some ten yea sixteen yeers past and yet to this day doe remain in perfect good health without any Issues CHAP. IX What Diet we ought to keep FOr our diet as Hippocrates teacheth us we must have a care not to exceed in eating and drinking but to keep a mean therein and in any case to beware of surfeting and drunkenness which are enemies both to the body and soule but as we may not exceed in eating and drinking so to endure great hunger and thirst is most dangerous our meat ought to be of a facile and easie digestion partly tending to a drying qualitie as Cocks Capons Hens Pullets Partridge Pheasants Quailes Pigeons Rabbets Kid Veal Mutton Birds of the Mountains and such like but Beef Pork Venison Hare and Goats flesh is to be refused and so are all water fowls as Duck Swan Goose Widgen Teal and such like because they are hard to digest and do increase ill blood and naughtie juyce in the bodie Lambs flesh because of his exceeding moisture is also to be refused Eggs in the Summer not good but in Winter tolerable All Fishes which are of a hard flesh whether they be of the Sea or fresh Rivers are to be allowed In fresh Rivers the Perch Barble Gudgeon Loch Cool Trout and Pike are good and for Sea fish the Gilthed Turbet Sole Rochet Gurnard Lobster Crab Praunes Shrimps Whiting and such like eaten with vinegar There are some Authors which hold opinion that Fish is better to be eaten then flesh in the great fervent heat of the year because they doe make a more cold bloud in the body then flesh another reason is because they doe live under the water they are not infected with any contagion of the aire as Beasts and birds may be and therefore more wholsome but in my judgement flesh is more wholsome because it doth-breed a more pure and fine Juyce in the body then any Fish whatsoever your bread ought to be made of pure wheat not too new nor too old but of one dayes baking or two at most is best Rie bread is to be eschewed because of his great moisture your drink is best beer or ale not too strong or new but the staler and clearer it is the better at your meals a draught or two of Claret wine is tolerable but in hot weather it were good to allay it with a little water for wine doth warm the stomack help digestion and comfort the heart For your Pottage you may take in the Summer Parsly Lettice Sorrell Endive Succorie Sperage Hopbuds Burnet Burrage Buglosse Thime Mints Hysop but in Winter Balm Bittanie Thime Marigold Hysop Majoram Mints and Rue are good For your Sallets take Pimpernell Purslane Mints Sorrell Hore-hound Yong cole Hop buds Sperage Thime Tops of Fennell Tarregon Lettice and Water-cresses are good Capers are greatly commended being preserved in Vinegar and eaten with a little oyle and vinegar and so are Olives very good also For your sauce the juyce of a Limon Citron or Orange is best the juyce of Sorrell and Vinegar is also good All raw fruits are to be refused except those which tend to sour tast as Pomgranates damask Prunes Pippins red and sour Cherries and Wallnuts Quinces and Peares preserved are very good eaten after meals All kind of Pulse is to be refused as Beans Pease and such like because they increase winde and make raw humours and ill juyce in the bodie Refrain from Garlick Onyons Leeks Pepper Mustard and Rocket because they doe over-heat the body make adustion of the bloud and cause fumes to ascend into the head Cheese is not good because it doth ingender grosse and thick humors Milk is also to be refused because it doth quickly corrupt in the stomack CHAP. X. Sheweth what Exercise and Order is to be kept YOu must beware of all vehement and immoderate exercise which doth provoke sweat as is Tennis dancing leaping running foot-ball hurling and such like because they doe over-much heat the body and open the Pores of respiration whereby the infected aire hath the more scope to enter our bodies but moderate exercise is very convenient the use of hot houses at this time I thinke very dangerous because it doth too much open the pores Walk not into the open ayre in the morning before the Sun hath had some power to cleanse and clear the same and in any case goe not abroad when great fogs and mists are upon the earth for it is dangerous but if urgent occasions move you then before you goeforth of your doors be sure to eat some preservative first and then take some good and odoriferous Pomander Nodule or Nosegay in your hand as before is shewed you The extream heat of the day is likewise to be refused to walk in because it chafeth the bloud as also in the evening after the Sun is set for then unsavory and unwholsome Fogs arise out of the earth and in any case if you can avoid it come not neer any any place infected but use to walk in the open aire and dry ground Use Venus combates moderately but none at all were better the best time to use them is three or four hours after supper before you sleep and then rest upon them Beware of anger fear and pensiveness of the minde for by their means the body is made more apt to receive the infection Use pleasant and merry recreations either with musick pleasant company to talke withall or reading some good books Bewar of sleeping at noon but specially in the Winter season but in Summer to take after dinner a nap of half an hour or an hour is tollerable in elderly bodies Watch not long in the evenings but two or three hours after supper is a good time to take your rest CHAP. XI Teacheth what orders Magistrates and Rulers of Cities and Townes should cause to be observed FIrst To command that no stinking dunghills be suffered near the City Secondly Every evening and morning in hot weather to cause cold water to be cast in the streets especially where the infection is and every day to cause the streets to be kept clean and sweet and cleansed from all filthy things which lye in the same Thirdly And whereas the infection is entered there to cause fires to be made in the streets every morning and evening and if some Frankincense Pitch or some other sweet thing be burnt therein it will be much the better Fourthly Suffer not any Doggs Catts or Pigs to run about the streets for they are very dangerous and apt to carry the infection
by the Spaniards by the Mexicans Cocalista and by other Indians is named Taberdet and is so exceeding pestilent and infectious that whole Kingdomes in both the India's have been depopulated by it for want of knowledge to redresse themselves of it To know the Taberdilla It first assaults the Patient vehemently with pain in the head and back and the body seeming yellow is some sign thereof and within 24 hours it is so torturous that the possest thereof cannot rest or sleep turning himself on either side back or belly burning in his back most extreamly And when it growes to perfection there will appear red and blue spots upon the Patients breast aâ—…d wrists And such persons as have not presently requisite means applyed to them to prevent it will be by the vehement torment thereof deprived of their wits and many to cease their pain by losse of their lives have despairingly slain and drowned themselves The Cure of the Taberdilla When you perceive it afflict the Patient permit him not to lie very warm nor upon feathers for of what quality soever he bee in Spain having this sickness he is laid upon wheatstraw Then immediatly open the Median Vein first in one arm and the next day in the other taking a good quantity of bloud Let him have water cold wherein Barlie and Annise-seeds have been sodden without Liquorice for the Spanish Physitians hold Liquorice to bee hurtfull unto them so much as he will desire which will be every moment but no other drink nor any raw fruits Assoon as the spots appear give him some Cordiall potion and laying him upon his belly set six Ventoses together on his back between and beneath the shoulders and scarifying them draw out if it be a body of strong constitution 18 ounces of bloud After which and that he hath slept he will find ease within twenty four hours and such alteration in himself as he will thinke he is delivered of a most strange torment Then give him moderately nourishing meats for he will desire to eat much the fourth day give him some convenient Purgations And if in the mean while he is costive provoke him every day by Clisters and warn him to forbear 15 dayes all other drink then what is ordained And be very carefull of his diet for if this Taberdilla which we call here in England Gods Tokens come againe unto the Patient he can hardly escape it And it is no lesse Infectious then the usuall English Plague The Espinlas IS a strange sicknes usuall in those parts to such as take cold in their Breasts after great heat or travell It comes most times to those that lye with their breasts upon the ground especially in the night To know the Espinlas The Party having it will be giddie in the head and have pain and pricking at his breast as with many thornes from whence I thinke it is called for Espina in Spanish signifies a thorn and there will be upon the Focell being the upper bone of his arm a hand breadth above the wrist a little kernell by the which it is certainly known He that hath this disease will have appetite neither to meat nor drinke nor can digest meat though he be invited and moved to take it To cure the Espinlas The Espinlas appearing by the former signs take presently oyle Olives and therewith chafe the kernell upon the Patients arm using so to doe twice every day untill it be dissolved and laying oyle likewise upon his breast stroke it upward somewhat hard with the hand then spread fine flaxe upon it and the kernel making it fast with a rowler and within two or three dayes the diseased will be recovered thereof whereas else it is very dangerous to deprive them of life Camera de Sangre LAxativeness or Blondy Flux proceed in those parts of divers causes As by eating Grapes Oranges Limons Melons Plantains and especially a great fruit growing in the West-Indies called Pina like a Pine-apple but bigger then four of the greatest which I have seen which the Spaniars hold for the most delicate fruit that is there and many other fruits Also by sudden cold or sitting being very hot upon a cold stone or being hot by drinking water abundantly And also eating of Butter Oyle and Fish is so hurtfull to the parties that have it that they must refrain to eat thereof and whatsoever else that may ingender any slimie substance in the Intrals The Cure of the Bloudie Flux There is more possibility of cure by how much more expedition the medicine is ministred and detracting it the Patients often die suddenly without feeling much grief For speedy and assured remedie the Patients bodie must be cleansed of the sliminess ingendred in the passages of the nutriments before any sustenance can remain in his bodie To that purpose purge him in the morning with halfe a pint of white wine cold wherein half an ounce of Rubard being smal cut hath been sodden putting some Sugar Candie to it to sweeten it and immediatly after he hath so purged keep at his navell Rosemary sod in strong Vinegar applyed in the morning and evening very hot untill it be stayed giving him often Quinces bruised and rouled in Marmalade like Pills which he should swallow whole and none of the fruits or meats before recited nor any more white wine but red wine of any sort And if it be one the land use the Livers of Goats especially Sheeps or Bullocks rosted not willingly permitting the Patient to eat any other meat And if at Sea Rice onely sodden in water rather then any thing else usuall there untill the infirmitie bee perfectly asswaged The Erisipela REigneth much in those Countries proceeding from the unwholsome aires and vapours those hot Countries doe yeeld whereof many perish and if it bee not prevented by Medicines presently ministred to the Sick Patients it proveth incurable To know the Erisipela Hee will be swoln in the face or some part of him and it will be of yellow colour mixed with red And when it is pressed with the finger there will remain a sign or dint of the same and then by degrees it will fill again to the former proportion It speedily infecteth the inward parts because such swellings come sooner unto perfection in hot places then in temperat Countries and therefore the diseased thereof must immediatly be provided of remedie To Cure the Erisipela The Savage people first found out perfectly how to cure this disease though it is the Spanish name of the Maladie by bruising so much Tobacco as will yeeld four spoonfuls of juyce and to drinke it presently after they are infected therewith and to launce the places swollen thereunto putting Casade wet and made into paste continuing in cold and shadie places neer Rivers and not to travell and labour till they bee recovered The Spaniards in India doe recover themselves by taking the same juyce of Tobacco and setting so many Ventoses upon the swoln places as they can contain