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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02444	A nevv treatise of the pestilence, containing the causes, signes, preseruatiues and cure thereof The like not before this time pubished [sic]. And therefore necessarie for all manner of persons, in this time of contagion. S. H. Studious in phisicke.	Hobbes, Stephen.	1603 (1603)	STC 12577; ESTC S117905	5,729	16

A NEVV TREATISE OF THE PESTILENCE containing the Causes Signes Preseruatiues and Cure thereof The like not before this time pubished And therefore necessarie for all manner of persons in this time of contagion S. H. Studious in Phisicke LONDON Printed by Iohn Windet for Mathew Law and are to be sold at his Shop at the signe of the Fox in Paules Church-yarde 1603. A TREATISE OF the Pestilence HAuing an intent to write certaine Precautions and preseruatiues against the pestilence I thinke not necessarie to be ouer tedious or so precise as those that write exquisitly and perfectly of the same disease onely I am determined to set downe such things as shall be necessary for to be knowne by those which in this case shall haue neede And first I will make a true description of the pestilence what it is Secondly the causes thou the Signes and lastly precautions and remedies against the same The pestilence is nothing else then a rotten or pestilent feuer which being ingendred by a rotten and corruptayre by a hidden and secret propertie which it hath doth kill and destroy mortal creatures The causes are said to be foure fold as the first chiefest cause is supernaturall as being immediately sent from God for the punishment of sinne and disobedience of mankind as doth appeare in Deut. 2● 15 If thou wilt not obey the voice of the Lord thy God to keepe and to doe all his commandements and his ordinances which I command thee this day then all these curses shall come vpon thee and ouertake thee Cursed shalt thou be in the towne and cursed in the field c. The Lord shal make the pestilence cleaue vnto thee vntill he haue consumed thee from the Land which thou goest to possesse c. Moreouer we reade that the sinne of Dauid was the cause that the Lord sent his Angell which did kill the pestilence in a small time threescore and ten thousand soules Now this may be proofe sufficient that sinne is the originall and chiefe cause of this most cruell disease of the pestilence The second cause is attributed to an euill constellation which Astronomers affirme to proceede by the placing of the Sunne Moone and Stars being in the firmament or circles of the heauens by their coniunctions oppositions and other Aspects the one to the other The third cause is attributed to the corruption of the ayre which being corrupted is apt for infection of mans body for all liuing creatures drawe their breath from the ayre that is round about thē which if it be stinking wenomous and corrupt the bodie of man liuing therein is in danger to be corrupted whereby often times the pestilence is ingendred The fourth cause is the aptnesse of the body of man through corrupt and rotten humours fitte to receiue the effects of a venomous ayre putrifying and corrupting the body whereby the pestilence is ingendred And this aptnsse to infection proceedeth by the abuse of the six things which are called by the Phisitions not naturall which are 1. Ayre 2. Meate and drinke 3. Sleepe and watch 4. Exercise and rest 5. Emptinesse and repletion 6. The perturbations and affections of the minde Now as the true vse of these things that are called not naturall doth maintaine and cherish health so the abuse thereof is the occasion of disease sickenesse For which cause I counsell all manner of persons in this time of contagion to flie surfeting gurmandizing and other vnseasonable banketings whereby the health of the body is at all times impayred for who knoweth not that great and often feeding breedeth cruditie and rawe watrish humours in the body which cruditie is a fitte sediment or subiect for the venomous and corrupt ayre to worke on For which cause the learned Phisitions as well Auncient as moderne giue counsell that in the time of pestilence and contagion those bodies that are humid and moyst must bee by all manner of meanes made drie and those that are dry to be kept and preserued in their drinesse for by obseruation it is very well knowne that the Phiegmaticke and sanguine body is sooner subiect to infection then the Choloricke or Melancholike and experience doth dayly teach vs when for the most part women children and men of yoong yeares are those that die in this disease of the pestilence as those bodies that are hot and moyst and thereby fittest to receiue putrif●c●ion But for as much as I promised in the beginning not to be ouer-tedious as those that make a long discourse I purpose to proceede briefly vnto the signes whereby a man may know and perceiue when the contagion hath taken hold of him and thereby run speedily vnto such meanes helps as by the rules of Phisicke shall be to him discribed The signes to know when the body is infected are for the most part an Apostum or tumor about the eare necke vnder the arme holes or flancke with a feuer and sometimes there ariseth in some other parts of the body a darke greene or euill coloured sore These signes for the most port doth appeare but not alwaies But for the more certainty we must consider these symtomes or signes that follow there hapneth after infection a great pricking and shooting in the body and especially in the necke armeholes and flanckes also extreame heate within the body and in the hands knees and feete very co●d so that there is ioyned with the same a shiuering as in a feuer also their is heauines of the head drynesse of the mouth with extreame thirst also a drowsinesse and great desire to sleepe some againe are so watchfull that they cannot sleepe so that they ra●e as thought they were in a phrens●e there happeneth also great paine in the head faintnesse sluggishnesse weakenesse of the l●mmee pensiuenesse no desire of meat with oftē vomiting the matter being bitter of diuers colours the vrine troubled thicke and stinking for the most part without residence These are the principall signes of infection yet not certaine for sometimes a man may be infected and yet none of these signes apparant And in like maner a man may haue these signes and yet free from infection Some Phisitions are of opinion that there is scarsely any disease where the Pestilence raigneth but that it is either of the nature of the pestilence or apt to be turned into the same And thus much shall suffice as concerning signes of the infection with the pestilence we will now proceed to the preseruatiues and cure Of the cure of the Pestilence AS I haue already declared that there is a fourefolde cause of this cruell disease of the pestilence so also there is a fourefold meanes to cure the same The first consisteth in euacuation and mundification of the body The second in a due obseruation of diet The third in comforting and strengthning of the principall members which are the hart the liuer and the braine with asseueration of the potentiall and operati●e powers