and drink again but without sweating and use some exercise to keep the body warm use this last order twelve dayes together use good Cordials and Restoratives with sirrup and conserve of Fumitory For the green Sicknesse and Jaundies Boyle of Rue and Sage of each a bundle in a quart or three pints of Ale with one scruple of Saffron To cure this disease the Electuary of Steel is excellent if the body be first purged for it doth open all obstructions but the Patient must use some exercise after the taking it to stirre up naturall heat the better the dose is half an ounce at a time to take of it The Steel for the Electuary is thus prepared â„ž Of the filings of the best Iron or Steel as much as you please grinde it subtilly and finely upon a Porphiry or red Marble stone with Vinegar then dry it at the Sun or at the fire and grinde it again with Vinegar as at the first and doe thus seven times one after another and thus you have the Steel prepared fit for you The Electuary of Steel is made up thus â„ž Of the filings of Steel so prepared half an ounce Cinnamon Nutmegs condited of each three drachms of chosen Rubarb two drachms of the species of Aromaticum rosatum half a drachm of chosen Honey and of fine white Sugar of each one pound and one ounce mingle these all together over a soft fire and make it up into an Electuary After the taking of this Electuary let the Patient in all cases use some bodily exercises being first universally purged for this Electuary is most excellent against all obstructions of the Liver Spleen or other disease and for the green Sicknesse For the green Sicknesse or green Jaundies The green Sicknesse or Jaundies cometh of yellow choller mixed with corrupt or putrified flegm and corruption of bloud debility of nature and faintnesse of heart it happeneth also when the Liver is weakened that it cannot convert the nourishment into bloud but the digestion is raw and crude so that the whole body is filled with water and flegm instead of good bloud it is cheifly found in young Maidens who desire to abate their fresh colours and as they conceive to be fine and fair and foolishly feed upon trash which altereth the colour and state of their bodies as of unripe Apples Peares Plums Cherries and raw Fruits and Hearbs or Meale Wheat Barly raw Milk Chalk Lime and the like and they that have this disease are very pale and greenish if they chance to cut their finger no bloud but water will follow they feele great pain in their head with continuall beating are faint short-breathed and their naturall Flowers are stopped and stayed to the prevention and cure whereof the body must first be well and orderly purged as by the Medicines before prescribed The Table for the Child-Bearers Cabinet WHat things are to be taken heed of in the two first Moneths page 1. Orders for the third moneth 2. From the fourth moneth 3. From the fifth sixth and seventh moneth ibid. In the eighth moneth 4. In the ninth moneth 5. A Liniment 6. The Fomentation ibid. The Bath 7. Suffumigations of the Genitals to facilitate delivery ibid. What meat is most usefull 8. What manner of Chamber the woman with child should lye in ibid. What is to be done at the Birth ibid. How and wherewith the child-bed womans bed ought to be furnished 9. To whom the seat may agree and be fit ibid. What the Midwife shall doe in the very moment of the Birth ibid. What to be done when the Infant is come into the world 10. If the Secondines break not readily 11. What is to be done after the child is born if yet the Secondine or after-Birth be retained ibid. Another approved Remedie for drawing them forth 12. Another Receipt ibid. To draw forth a dead child ibid. How the bellies of Child-bearing women being costive or bound may be loosned 13. What things are to be applyed to the naturall or Secret Parts ibid. The Fomentation ibid. Another 14. An Ointment ibid. A Girdle for the Belly ibid. The order from the seventh day after the woman is brought to bed 15. On the eighth day ibid. On the ninth day ibid. A Liniment to scatter and disperse the Milk ibid. When and whath Bath they must use 16. Another 17. Against the gripings of the belly in Children ibid. Outward Remedies for the same ibid. Inward helps in their meats ibid. A Drink ibid. The government of the Nurse 18. The Care of the Infant 19. A Bath of sweet water very profitable for Children as by whose meanes they may grow up and increase 20. The diseases of Infants 21. The diseases and symptomes proceeding from the birth in women with child ibid. Against the Rupture of the Cods and perinaeum and the part between the rising of the Yeard and the Fundament which proceedeth from difficulty of bringing forth 22. For windinesse or Collick of the Belly 23. For the Itch. ibid. For the Flux of the bloud 24. For falling down of the Matrix from the birth ibid. For the Piles after the birth 25. Against pain of the Breasts contracted by too much Milk ibid. For the Imposthume of the Breasts ibid. What is to be administred to the Child after it is born for the first thing it taketh 27. For Infants troubled with wind and flegm 28. A most excellent Medicine to cause Children to teeth easily ibid. For Agues in Children ibid. For Wormes in Children ibid. For Heart-Wormes 29. The Cure ibid. To cause a young Child to goe to stool ibid. Another certain Experiment .. ibid. The Table of the Cures for severall Diseases FOr Ach in the bones 33. For all Aches and lame Members ibid. An Ointment for all Aches which come from cold causes shrunken Sinewes straines in man or beast it is incomparable and will keep forty yeares but it must be made onely in May. 34. To counterfeit beyond-Sea Azure ibid. To know good Azure and pure 35. For an Ague ibid. For a Tertian or a double Tertian Ague ibid. For a short Breath ibid. An Electuary for the shortnesse of Breath .. 36. For a Bruise or Squat ibid. A Restorative for the back 37. For Aches in the Back ibid. For bleeding at the Nose ibid. For burning or Scalding ibid. For a Cough of the Lungs 38. For purging of Colds Coughs and Comforting the Lungs ibid. A Julep for a Cough 39. Another ibid. For a Canker in the Mouth ibid. For a Consumption and Cough of the Lungs 40. For Collick and paines in the Back ibid. For the Cramp 41. For a Canker ibid. Another ibid. For a Canker in the Lips ibid. A water for a Consumption ibid. For the Cough 42. For a Cough or shortness of Breath ibid. For a Consumption ibid. For the Dropsie 43. Another ibid. For pains in the Eyes ibid. For sore Eyes by salt Rheum ibid. To cleer the Eye-sight 44. For the Flux ibid. Another
as by ease and sloth they are augmented Also copulation of the Nurse exceedingly offendeth and hurteth the Child as that which cheifly retracteth and diminisheth the Milk and maketh it of an unsavory taste tasting hot and rank or goatish which bringeth no small inconvenience and hurt to the Child For which cause in times past Husbands were driven away from their Wives and restrained from their companies But if the Milk decrease Pultesses of Bean meal and Rise are meet to be used also like paps made of Bread with Milk and Sugar to which may be added a little Fennel-seed And if the Milk be thick it must be made thinne with slender diet and subtill Wine and Sirrup of Vinegar as also with exercises But if it be too thinne and waterish grosse and strong meats and longer sleeps will be convenient and meet For the corruption of the Milk a little Mugwort grosly bruised and put into a linnen cloth and so into broth with a little Honey added thereto will doe very much good The care of the Infant And if the Childes belly be loose the food ought to be more grosse and strong and her sleeps longer But children may suck so long as till they have brought forth sharp and great teeth But if you suffer them to drink Wine or strong drink or other Potions before they have toothed them they will be corrupted but when they have gotten these teeth their armes and back bones are gently to be rubbed after their sleep CHAP. XVIII A Bath of sweet water very profitable for children as by whose meanes they may grow up and increase THey are fasting to be bathed in water before meat for the space of a quarter of an hour yet so that the belly may first goe down or be emptied and then they are to be annointed with oyle of Olives made hot And it is not of little concernment in what swadling clothes children are wrapped for when they are not tied up at all or the clouts are too loose they are subject to Fluxes Imposthumes apt to be crooked backt and other discommodities but especially when their knees are too strictly tied and bound up and their thighs left at liberty they are lamed When they cry or feel pain or will sleep they are to be pacified either by shewing the breast or by singing or by rocking either in Cradles or hanging Beds or by carrying up and down But we must observe that children may lie strait whensoever they lie down and ought not to be covered too much or hot with coverings nor yet with too few least they may catch cold Moreover let the linnen cloth wherein they are wrapped be neat and clean for children are offended and infected by foul and filthy excrements From three years of age till the seventh they are to be educated gently and kindly not to be severely reprehended chidden or beaten for by that meanes they be made throughout their whole life after too timorous or too much terrified astonished and sotted Being yet in their first years they are not to be compelled to going for seeing all their bones are soft as Wax and the body fall the heavier they either become lame or universally resolved in their feet Food must be daily given them thrice a day till they are three years old for if they be much filled they are subject and accustomed to be troubled with Convulsions and other diseases In the sixth or seventh year of their age they are to be sent to schoole and committed to the breeding and instruction of courteous and temperate Schoolmasters who may not terrifie them Before these yeares they are not to be compelled or forced to harder labours otherwise they will not thrive well but stand at a stay and keep little or become Dwarfes CHAP. XIX The Diseases of Infants VVHen as the Infant beginneth to grow sick as for example from a cold disease the Nurse is to be nourished with hot and dry meat and drink so that thereby forthwith it may grow well again so also if it be taken with other diseases as with an Ague the Nurse shall use plantain water and such like things Paps made for children of crums or morsels of bread broken or sliced are more wholesome than made of meal or flour Till two years old give them Honey often for that keepeth them from Convulsions and costivenesse of the belly and that the milk they eat hurt them not When Infants cast up their milk a Corrall should be hung about their neck down to their middle for it is usefull for them in teething and Ivory also is good for the same purpose Diseases and Symptomes proceeding from the birth in women with child Gripings and pangs come often upon women from their birth for the womb as a wild beast by reason of her suddain evacuation and emptinesse by wandering up and down hither and thither disposeth it self Therefore the belly must be covered all over with Barly meal and the white of an Egg mixed together wirh juyce of Elder also drinking of hot Wine wherein Cummin hath been boyled is very convenient and usefull Also Suffumigations of Styrax calamita Frankincense and Smallage seed of each one drachm will very much availe CHAP. XX. Against the Rupture of the Cods and perinaeum and the part between the rising of the Yeard and the Fundament which proceedeth from difficulty of bringing forth TO help the Rupture of the naturall parts which ariseth from hardnesse in bringing forth the powder of the great Comfery root dryed with Cummin and Cinnamon are very good put up into the womb In some the wrinkled skin of the Cods is broken from the birth so that there is but one hole between the womb and the fundament and the same course whereby oftentimes the womb goeth forth and is hardened therefore the diseased parts must be cherished with hot Wine in which Butter hath been resolved untill the Matrix be softned and then it must be gently put up after the Cod skin is broken in three or four places it must be sowed up with a silken thred presently let a linnen cloth be put upon the belly according to the largenesse of it lastly let it be annointed with Tar for the womb by reason of the evill scent is drawn in again At last we heal the Rupture with powder of both Comferies and Cummin sprinkled upon them But a child-bed woman is to be put to bed so that she may have her feet lie the higher let her lie there eight or nine dayes continually and let her take her meat ease her self and make water there She must abstain from bathing so long as possibly she may also from all those things which may provoke coughing and from meats which cannot easily be digested And for preventing this danger in bringing forth let a long ball of linnen cloth be made and put up into her Fundament and as often as the child-bearing woman striveth to bring forth the Infant let her strongly compresse and
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 be cause 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 the matter lieth lurking in the interior parts not offering it self to appear outwardly otherwise I hold it better to leave the whole work unto nature specially in sucking children for when we see that nature is ready or doth endeavour to expell the malignity which is in the interior parts to the exterior which may be perceived by reviving of the Spirits and mitigating of the Fever here we ought not to use any meanes at all but leave the whole operation to nature which we must onely help by keeping the sick body in a reasonable heat being wrapt in a scarlet stammell or red cloth which may not touch the skin but to have a soft linnen cloth betwixt them both and then cover him with clothes in reasonable sort and keep him from the open ayre and the light except a little and also from anger using all the meanes you can to keep the sick in quietnesse and if the body be very costive then to give an easie Glister A Glister â„ž Barley two handfuls Violet leaves one handfull Boyle these in three pints of water untill half be consumed and strein it then take of the same decoction twelve ounces Oyle of Violets three ounces red Sugar and Butter of either one ounce Mix them together and give it to the sick warm you may encrease or diminish the decoction or ingredients according as the age of the party requireth but if the sick have great heat then may you add one ounce or four drachms of Câ—ssia newly drawn unto it and when he hath expelled the Glister then rub the armes hands legs and feet softly with a warm cloth which is also a very good meanes to draw that chorous matter from the interior to the exterior parts when all this is done then if the body be inclined to sweat you must further the same by covering him with warm clothes having a care that you lay not more on him then he can well endure for otherwise you may cause faintnesse and swouning which are ill in this case yet must you alwaies keep the sick warm and suffer him not to sleep or permit very little untill the Pox or Measels do appear and here
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 or 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 3. 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 Iâ—audanum 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 there of 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 Benedictus water Also so much Triacle of Andromachus description eaten every morning as a bean with a little conserve of Roses is a very excellent good preservative Valetius doth greatly commend the taking of three or four grains of the Bezar stone every morning in a spoonfull of Scabios water I cannot here sufficiently commend the Electuarie called Dioscordium which is not onely good to resist the infection but doth also expell the venemous matter of those which are infected being taken every morning and evening the quantity of a bean and drinke a draught of Rennish or White wine after it in winter season but in Summer a draught of Beer or Ale is best In strong and rusticall bodies and such as are dayly labourers Garlick onely eaten in the morning with some Butter and Salt at breakfast drinking a cup of beer or ale after it hath been found to be very good which is greatly commended by Galen who calleth it the poor mans Triacle but in the sanguine daintie and idle bodies it may not be used because it over-heateth the bloud causeth head-ach and universally inflameth the whole body CHAP. VI. NOw when you have taken any of the foresaid Preservatives it were good and necessary to wear upon the Region of the heart some sweet Bag or quilt that hath power to resist venome and also to carry in your hand some sweet Pomander Nodule or Nosegay that will comfort the heart resist venom and recreate the vitall spirits as here following is specified and set down An excellent quilt or Bag. â„ž Arsenike cristaline â„¥ i. Diamargaritum frigidum ℈ ii Diambrae ℈ i. You must grinde the Arsenike in small powder and then with some of the infusion of Gum Dragagant in Rose water you must make a paste then spread it on a cloth which must be six inches long and five inches broad and spread it thick then cover it with another cloth and so quilt it together which being done fasten it in another bag of crimson taffetie or Sarsenet and so wear it against the heart all the day time but at night leave it off and here you must take heed that when you sweat you doe take
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 Hop-buds 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 goe forth 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 â—un 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 from place to place Fifthly Command that the excrements and filthy things which are voided from the infected places be not cast into the streets or rivers which are daily in use to make drink or dresse meat Sixtly That no Chirurgians or Barbars which use to let bloud do cast the same into the streets or rivers Seventhly That no Vauts or Privies be then emptied for it is a most dangerous thing Eighthly That all Inholders do every day make clean their stables and cause the dung and filth therein to be carried away out of the City for by suffering it in their houses as some do use to do a whole week or a fortnight it doth so putrifie that when it is removed there is such a stinking and unwholsome smell as is able to infect the whole street where it is Ninthly To command that no Hemp or Flax be kept in water near the City or Town for that will cause a very dangerous and infectious savour Tenthly to have a speciall care that good and wholsome Victuals and Corn be sold in the markets and so to provide that no want thereof be in the City and for such as have not wherewithall to buy necessary food that there to extend their charitable and godly devotion for there is nothing that will more increase the Plague then want and scarsity of necessary food Eleventhly To command that all those which do visite and attend the sick as also all those which have the sicknesse on them and do walk abroad that they do carry something in their hands thereby to be known from other people And here I must advertise you of one thing more which I had almost forgotten which is that when the infection is but in few places there to keep the people in their houses not suffering any one of them to go abroad and so to provide that all such necessaries as they shall need may be brought unto them during the time of their visitation and when it is staied then to cause all the clothes bedding and other such things as were used about the sick to be all burnt although at the charge of the rest of the Inhabitants you buy them
â„ž Rhab. elect Ê’ ii Agarici tros Ê’ i. Croci ℈ ss Aquarum scabiosae Borraginis Card. B. ana Ê’ iiii Infuse these together twelve hours in a warm place then strain them strongly and add thereto Sir ros lax Mannae Calabriae ana â„¥ i. Decoct col â„¥ ii vel â„¥ iii. Mix all these together and take it as the other before A good purgation for a weak body â„ž Fol. sennae Ê’ iii. Rhab. elect Ê’ i. Sem. anis Ê’ ss Schenanthi ℈ ss Aquae Acetosae â„¥ v. Boyle them a little then take it from the fire and let them stand infused together twelve houres then strain it out strongly and add thereto Sir ros lax â„¥ i. and then drink it as the other before Another gentle purgation â„ž Aquarum scabiosae Card. B. Aquae ad pestâ—m ana â„¥ i. Rhab elect Ê’ ii ss Cinamomi Ê’ ss Infuse them together twelve hours and strain them strongly then add to the straining Sir ros lax â„¥ i. Sir de limonibus four ounces Mix them together and so drink it as the other before you may either add or diminish of the Rubarb unto any of these potions as you list Now when you see the purgation hath done working then give the sick some Cordiall thing as hereafter followeth which he must also take the next morning following A good Cordiall to be taken after Purging â„ž Conserva Burrag Bugloss Mali Citri anaÊ’ iiii Confect AlkermisÊ’ i. Boli Veri Ê’ ss Specierum diarhod abb ℈ ii Diamarga frigid Ê’ i. Manus Christi perlati â„¥ i. Sir de Lemon Ê’ iiii Mix all these together and give the sick thereof so much as a chestnut at a time you must oftentimes eat thereof if the sick be in no great heat Another good Cordiall to be given where great heat is â„ž Conservae Borag Ê’ iiii Conservae fol. acetosae â„¥ i. Bolarm veri Ê’ i. Manus Christi cum perlis â„¥ i. Sir de Lemonibus q. v. misce You must oftentimes give of this where great heat is so much as three beanes at a time A good Cordiall potion â„ž Aquarum buglossae Acetosae ana â„¥ i. Pul. diamarga frig Ê’ ss Confectio alkermis G. ii Sir de aceto Citri vel de Lemon â„¥ i. misce All this you may take after purging as aforesaid at any time And here you must understand that if it be in a plethorick body full of ill humors it were good that you purge him again the next day CHAP. III. Sheweth what symptoms often chance and how to help them FOr that in this contagious disease there are divers dangerous symptoms which do oftentimes chance I will here shew you good meanes how to help the same For lightnesse of the head through want of sleep â„ž Hordei mundi P. i. Amigd dul depilatum â„¥ i. ss Sem. iiii Frigid ma. mund ana ℈ i. Aqua font q. 5. fiat decoctio Decoct col l. i. Sir de Lemonibus de Papa ana â„¥ i. ss Sacchari perlati â„¥ i. Boyl them together a little and then keep it to your use you must often times give two or three spoonfulls thereof to drink and anniont his temples with this ointment Oyntment to provoke sleep â„ž Vnguent popillionis Ê’ iiii Vnguent Alabastrini Ol. Nenuphariae misce ana Ê’ ii This oyntment is not onely good to provoke sleep but will also ease the pain of the head if the place grieved be annointed therewith For raveing and raging If the party rave then give him one scruple of the powder of Harts-horn burnt with half an ounce of the sirrup of Violets and Lemons and apply this sacculus following to the head A good Sacculus for raving and raging â„ž Florum Nenupharis P. i. Cort. Pap. Ê’ ii Santali albi Rub. Citri ana Ê’ i. Florum ros rub P. i. Florum Viol. P. ss Florum camomil Betonicae anaÊ’ i. Shread them all small then pound them grosly and quilt them in a bagg and apply it to the head and it will help you Aphtham to help it In this contagious disease there doth chance an ulceration of the mouth which is called Aphtham it cometh by means of the great interior heat which the sick is oppressed with in the time of his sicknesse which if it be not well looked unto in time it will greatly endanger the body for Remedy whereof use this Gargarism A good Gargarism for the mouth â„ž Clean barley one handfull wilde Daysie leaves Plantaine leaves Strawberry leaves Violet leaves of either one handfull Purslane seed one scruple Quinse seed one scruple and half Licorice bruised four drachms Boyle all these in a sufficient quantity of water untill the water be half consumed then strain it and take one pint and half thereof and add thereto Sirrup of Roses by infusion and sirrup of dried roses of either four drachms Diamoron two ounces Mix these together and gargarize and wash the mouth therewith oftentimes being warm and it helpeth Vomiting extreamly how to help it If it come in the beginning of the disease as most commonly it doth there is no better means to stay it then by giving of Cordials and by sweating by which meanes that venomous matter which is the cause thereof is expelled and breathed out but if after Cordials given and sweat it doth not stay it is a very ill and dangerous signe yet what means I have used to stay the same I will here shew you A good bag for the stomack â„ž Dried leaves of Mints Elder Origanie Wormwood Calamint Mugwort Thime Balme Pellemountaine tops of Dill of either a little handfull Seeds of Carduus Benedictus Fennell Annis of either four drachms Roots of Ciperus Calamus aromaticus of either four drachms Nutmegs Cloves Mace of either half a drachm Make all these in gross powder then put it into a linnen bag which must be made so broad and long as will cover the stomack then take Rose-water and strong Vinegar of either ten spoonfulls wherein do you dissolve one ounce of Mithridate then must you first wet the said bag in two parts of clean water and a third part of White or Claret-wine and let him soak therein a little while the liquor being first warmed on a Chafer and coales and then wet him in the Rose-water and and Vinegar being warm and so apply it to the stomack and when he waxeth cold warm him therein againe and let him remain half an hour in all and then take him away and dry the stomack with a warm cloth and then annoint it with this ointment following â„ž Chymicall oyles of Rosemary Sage of either one drachm Vinegar Mithridate of either one drachm Mix all these together and so use it and if the party be costive then were it good to give him a glister wherein dissolve two drachms of Mithridate it is also good to apply Ventoses unto the buttocks and thighes Yoxe or yexing to stay it â„ž Dill seed two scruples and half White Poppy seed Purslane seed of either one
running the better it will be and at length heal it up as other Ulcers are cured Now so soon as you have applyed the Vesicatory you must presently epithemate the botch with this Epithemation Epithemation Take Mallowes Violets Cammomill Dill and Mellilot ana M. i. Hollehock roots three ounces Lin-seed one ounce and a half Boile all these in a sufficient quantity of water untill halfe the water be consumed in this decoction you must wet some unwashed Wooll or Flax made clean and well beaten then being wrung out a little apply it warm to the place and renue it every hour during the time that the Vesicatory is in working and when you have opened the blister that is made thereby then onely apply this Cataplasme to the botch it self Take Mallowes Violets and Cammomill floures of either one handfull Boil them in water untill they be tender then cut them very small with a shreading knife and add thereto Oil of Cammomill and Lillies of either two ounces Barrowes mort two ounces Wax one ounce Mâ—lt the Wax in the Oiles and then put it to the Hearbs and boile them together a little then take it from the fire and adde thereto Barly and Bean flower a handfull of either of them and so mix them altogether and apply it to the greif renuing it twice a day which within three or four dayes will resolve and discusse the botch but if it doe it not by that time then use all the meanes you can to bring it to supparation as before is sufficiently shewed you CHAP. VIII Sheweth how to know a Carbunkle or blain as also the cure of the same THe Carbunkle or blain doth first begin with a little Pustula or wheal and sometime with divers Pustulaes or wheales together with a great burning and pricking pain in the place which Pustulaes are like a scalding bladder seeming to be full of water or matter yet when you open it little or nothing will come out of it and when they are broken will grow to a hard crust or scarre as if it had been burnt with a hot Iron or Caustick with a great ponderosity or heavinesse in the place In some it comes in the beginning without any Pustula at all to be perceived but with a hard black crust or a scarre sometimes it lyeth hidden in the inward parts without any outward appearance at all as if it be in the lungs then there is a difficulty of breathing with a Cough and foul spitting If it be in the Liver or Spleen then the party feeleth a great pain and pricking in the same side if in the Kidneyes or Bladder it doth chance then is there suppression or stopping of the Urine or great pain in the making of water if it be in the Brain then a delirium followeth but howsoever it chance to come the party infected therewith hath a Fever with other accidents as before in the 13. Chapter of the first Treatise is declared if it begin with a green black or blew colour or of divers colours like the Rainbow then is it a deadly signe and so is it if once it appear and then suddenly vanish away but if it be red or yellowish so it be not in any of the principall parts or emunctuaries of the body as the heart stomack armpit flanke jawes or throat then it is laudable otherwise in any of these places very desperate and dangerous to be cured but wheresoever it doth chance unlesse it may be brought to suppuration it is deadly The cure of the Carbunkle First the Universall means must not be neglected as bloud-letting cordials epithemations sweet and gentle evacuation by purging as the time and cause requireth which before in the beginning of this Treatise hath been shewed at large and the same order which is used for the cure of a Botch is also to be kept in the cure of a Carbunkle and to rectifie the ayre of the house by strewing it with vine and willow leaves red Roses and such like as also to sprinkle the floor with Rose water and Vinegar and cause the sick oftentimes to smell unto a cloth wet in Rosewater and Vinegar is very good these things being done then use all the means you can to bring it to Suppuration for which purpose this Cataplasm following is very good A Maturative Cataplasm Take Fat Figs â„¥ iiii Mustard seed â„¥ i. ss Pound the seed small by it self the Figs must first be cut very small and then pounded likewise and then adde thereto so much Oyle of Lillies as will suffice to make it in the form of a stiffe Pultis and apply it warm renuing it twice a day this must be continued untill the scar begin to grow loose and moveable and then apply this following to remove the scar Take unsalted butter the yolk of an Egg and wheat flour mix them together and apply it untill the scar doe fall away then doe you mundifie it with this mundificative Mundificative annodine Take clear Turpentine â„¥ iiii Sirrup of red Roses â„¥ i. Honie of Roses Ê’ iiii Boil them altogether a little then take it from the fire and add thereto Barlie and wheat flour of each Ê’ vi the yolk of a new laid Egg and mix them altogether and apply it three dayes and then use this following Another Mundificative Take clear Turpentine â„¥ iii. Honie of Roses â„¥ ii Juice of Smallege â„¥ ii Barlie flowre â„¥ i. ss Boil them altogether saving the Barlie untill the Juice be consumed then take it from the fire and when it is almost cold adde the Barlie thereto and mixe them together and use thereof to the grief untill it be clean mundified and then incarnate it with Vnguentum Basilicon and lastly sigillate it with Vnguentum de cerusa decocted Sometime you shall find a little pustule to appear without any elevation of the parts adjoyning or outward hardnesse Now here to bring it outwardly you must apply this Cataplasm Take Lillie roots Onyons and sour Leaven of either one ounce Boil them in water untill the water be consumed then bruise them in a morter and add thereto Mustard seed Culver-dung White Sope anaÊ’ i. ss Snails without shels vi in number Mithridate Triacle ana half a drachm Yolks of four Eggs. Mix all these together and apply it warm to the grief renuing it thrice a day this order must be continued untill you see the place elevated tending to suppuration then apply a Maturative and so proceed as next before this is shewed you and during the whole time of the cure I hold it better to use rather Poultises then plaisters because they do not so much stop the Pores but give more scope for the venemous matter to breath out When the Carbuncle doth come with great pain and inflammation how to help it You must first bath and soke the place well with this bag following and then presently apply the Cataplasm ensuing for by this means you shall not onely ease the pain and abate the
45. For the bloudie Flux ibid. Another for the same ibid. Another for the same 46. Another for the same ibid. An Ointment for the Flux 47. For all Fluxes of bloud and other Fluxes pains in the back or Liver and for inward effects ibid. A Powder for the Flux 48. A Clyster ibid. For Morphew or Scurf of the face or Skin ibid. To blanch the Face ibid. To make the Skinsmooth .. 49. For the Morphew and Freckles ibid. For the Gout or Ache in the joynts ibid. For the Gout or Bone-ach ibid. For the Gout or Joynt-ach 50. For the Gout ibid. For the Gout or Bone-ach ibid. Hermes Tree ibid. A Plaister to help any Stitch or Imposthume wheresoever 51. For an Imposthume of the Stomack ibid. A good Oyle to bring in Joynts that have been out for the space of seven years to give strength to veins and sinnews and to keep them brought in in their places ibid. For the black Jaundies 52. Another for the same ibid. To make Hartshorn Jelly .. 53. For the yellow Jaundies .. ibid. Another for the same ibid. For a lame Leg. 54. For the same ibid. For chopt Lips 55. A Drink for the Cough of the Lungs and Consumption ibid. To make a Laxative Whey ibid. A good Laxative for a Child ibid. To cause Loosenesse .. 56. For a costive by burnt Choller .. ibid. For Rheume procuring a Cough of the Lungs ibid. A Drink for the Cough of the Lungs 57. A cooling Almond Milk ibid. A Water to restore Nature ibid. To restore Nature consumed 58. For the French Pox. ibid. Another 59. Another ibid. A Posset good in all cold Agues or Pestilentiall Diseases .. ibid. The Plague Water 60. An Antidote against the Pestilence by Dr. B. ibid. For the shaking Palsie 61. Another ibid. To restore lost Speech ibid. To restore speech to an Apoplectick ibid. A Restorative Electuary ibid. A Restorative good in all diseases 62. For the Rickets ibid. Doctor Vanhecks Rosa Vitae 63. A Sear-cloth for divers causes .. 64. For the Stone 65. For the Stone Strangury and Collick ibid. For the Stone in the Bladder ibid. To break and drive out the Stone ibid. To cause Vrine and break the Stone ibid For the Stone 66. For the Stone in the Râ—ines and Bladder ibid. A Posset for the Stone 67. For the Spleen ibid. Another ibid. For Swelling of Armes Legs and Feet ibid. For Sinewes and Nerves cut asunder 68. For Bruises or streined Sinewes ibid. For shrinking of Sinewes ibid. For Sinewes shrunk and to supple impotent Limbs 69. To cure an old Sore .. ibid. For the Scurvy ibid. To cool the Skin and heal a Sore 70. To help paines in the Stomack ibid. An Ointment for the Stomack ibid. For the pricking of a Thorn 71. To draw a Thorn or Splinter out of the flesh ibid. For the Tooth-ach ibid. To keep Teeth White and kill the Worms ibid. To take away a Wen. ibid. A Table for the Treatise concerning the Plague and Small Pox. VVHat the Plague is 1. Cause of the Plague ibid. Warnings of the Plague to come 3. How to prevent the Plague 4. A good perfume in Summer season 5. A good perfume in Winter Season ibid. An excellent good preservative against the Plague 6. Another preservative ibid. Another very good 7. An Excellent Quilâ— or Bag. 8 Another Bag. ibid. A Pomander good in the Summer time 9. Another for the Winter season ibid. A good Nodule for the Summer season ibid. Another Nodule for the Winter season ibid. A Nosegay for the same purpose 10. A Suppository ibid. A good Clyster 11. How to make Raisins laxative ibid. A good Ointment to keep one soluble ibid. Good Pills to keep one soluble and they doe also resist the Pestilence 12. Pills good to purge 13. A good purging Potion ibid. A Purging powder for such as cannot take Pills 14. Flours stopt how to provoke them ibid. Issues commended against the Plague ibid. What diet we ought to keep 15. What for your Pottage you may take in the Summer 16. What exercise and Order is to be kept 17. What Orders Magistrates and Rulers of Cities and Towns shall cause to bee observed 18. What you must doe when you go to visit the sick 19. The signs of the Infection 21. Good signs ibid. Evill signs ibid. The means how to cure the Plague 23. An excellent Powder to expell the Plague 26. Another good powder ibid. A good Opiat to expel Venome and to provoke sweat 27. Another excellent good means for the same ibid. An excellent good water against the Plague and divers other diseases which is to be made in May or June 28. Directions what the Patient must doe after the taking of the Cordiall ibid. A good defensative Vnguent 29 Epithemation ibid. Another ibid. A Quilt for the Heart 30. A Cordial Julip ibid. Another ibid. A Julip to quench thirst 31. A Julep to quench thirst and to resist Venenositie 32. A good purgation in a strong body 33. Another in a plethorick and full bodie ibid. A good purgation for a weak bodie ibid. Another gentle purgation 34. A good Cordial to be taken after Purging ibid. Another good Cordial to be given where great heat is ibid. A good Cordial Potion ibid. What Symptoms often chance and the manner how to help them 35. For lightnesse of the head through want of sleep .. ibid. An Ointment to provoke sleep ibid. For raving and raging ibid. A good Sacculus for raving and raging 36. An Aphtham to help it ibid. A good Gargarism for the mouth ibid. Vomiting extreamly how to help it ibid. A good Bag for the Soomack 37. Yex or yexing to stay it ibid. Flix how to stop it 38. Epithemation for the heart ibid. The generall cure of a Botch when it appeareth outwardly 39. A good Maturative ibid. Another ibid. Another where no Inflammation is 40. A Digestive ibid. A Digestive Cataplasm ibid. How to bring the Botch out that lieth deep within the body or flesh 41. A good Maturative Cataplasm ibid. Another 42. Another which is sooner made ibid. A Vesicatorie ibid. When the Botch will not come to Maturation but continueth alwayes hard 43. An Epithemation ibid. A Digestive ibid. What is to be done when the Botch strikes in again 44 How to draw a Botch from one place to another and so to discuss him without breaking ibid Epithemation 45. How to know a Carbuncle or blain as also the cure of the same 46. The cure of the Carbuncle 47. A Maturative Cataplasm ibid. Mundificative Anodines ibid. Another Mundificative ibid. When the Carbuncle doth come with great pain and Inflammation 48. A Bag good against it ibid. A Cataplasm 49. The Table of the Treatise concerning the Cure of the Small Pox. VVHat the small Pox and Measels are and whereof they proceed 50. What the Measels or Males are 51. The cause of the Pox and Measels ibid. To know the signs when one is infected as also the good and