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Medela pestilentiae wherein is contained several theological queries concerning the plague, with approved antidotes, signes and symptoms : also an exact method for curing that epidemicial distemper, humbly presented to the Right Honourable and Right Worshipful the lord mayor and sheriffs of the city of London.
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Kephale, Richard.
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1665
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Wing K330; ESTC R26148
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speaks comfort to him thorow the Grates unlesse hee go in to salute him amongst those fierce companions a good Minister is the common good hee cannot make his life peculiar to one without injury to many in the common cause of the Church hee must bee no niggard of his life in the private cause of a Neighbours bodily sickness hee may soon bee Prodigal a good Father may not spend his substance on one Childe and leave the rest Beggars If any man bee resolute in the contrary I had rather praise his courage then Imitate his practice I confesse I fear not so much Death as want of warrant for Death Quest How far publick persons are bound to visit particular men under the Infection Ans I Find no ground in sacred Scriptures to bind publick persons to hazard their life in particular mens cases they are set over a society not over one or two particular persons Indeed every particular member of a Society belongs to their charge and they ought to do what they can to the good of every particular Member under their charge so far as may stand with the good of the whole body and prove no prejudice thereto But if by visiting particular persons they should bee Infected and by that Infection their life taken away would not this prove a prejudice and dammage to the whole body Is it the way is it the Calling of a publick person to go into a particular mans House that is Infected Private persons may every where bee found out competently enabled to do such duties as are requisite to bee done to such as are Visited with the sickness or at least fit persons that have not publick employments may bee chosen out and set apart to visit the sick in contagious places to comfort them and to see all things meet for them duely performed Quest And whether they may substitute others in their places Ans QUestionless difference may be put betwixt persons some Magistrates are of such use in a Common-Wealth as it is meet they bee as as much as lyeth in man preserved from danger on this ground When David the King would have gone out with his Souldiers to battel the people answered Thou shalt not go forth thou art worth ten thousand of us Wherefore eminent excellent persons may bee exempted from abiding in dangerous places and others substituted in their name and stead to preserve peace keep good order and provide necessaries Provided that they who are substituted bee able and willing to perform the duties whereunto they bee deputed The like may bee said of Ministers yea of Husbands Parents Masters and the like to leave a Wife a Childe a Servant Infected with an Infectious Disease to the tendance of others that are fit and willing to do that duty and faithful in what they undertake is not to forsake wife childe or servant Quest How bold Christians ought to bee in dangers in the time of a Plague when they have a good calling A Good calling is that way wherein God by his Divine Providence setteth a man and wherein hee hath appointed him to walk in that way he hath given his Angels charge over him to keep him where we have the Angels to Minister for us and to encamp round about us what need wee to fear they will either keep us safe from danger in this world or if it seem good to God to take us out of this world they will carry our souls into Heaven as they did the soul of Lazarus For Application of this point it is requisite that wee bee well instructed by Gods Word in the kinde of our Calling whether it be lawful and warrantable or no as for extraordinary Callings they must bee warranted by an extraordinary spirit which is rare if at all in these daies but ordinary Callings have their express warrant in Gods Word As the Callings of Magistrates Ministers Souldiers Husbands and Wives Parents and Children Masters and Servants Nurses and Helpers in all kinde of necessities these may these must in their place and calling expose themselves to danger for performing the work which by vertue of their place belongeth unto them Captains and Souldiers must stand against Enemies though thereby they endanger their lives Magistrates must abide in Cities and other places diseased or Infected with contagious Diseases to see good order kept to take order for supply of such necessaries as are fit for all sorts though by abiding there they be in danger So Ministers must abide in such places to instruct direct comfort and encourage the people under their charge So Husbands and Wives being one flesh must have such a tender respect each of other as not to forsake one another for fear of Infection or other like danger Servants also Nurses and others that in such cases take upon them or by publick authority are appointed to bee helpers to such as are Infected with the Plague or any other contagious and infectious Disease are bound to attend such persons and abide by them yea though it bee with danger of their own lives For it is necessary that such persons bee looked unto to forsake and leave them that are not able to help themselves is more than barbarous inhumanity it is necessary that some abide by them who are more bound than they that have an especial Calling thereto they with greatest confidence may depend on Gods special providence for protection from Infection if they be infected and dye they with greatest comfort may yeild up their souls into Gods hands as dying in that place wherein God hath set them in these cases God hath called them to venture their lives for their brethren and thereby to give evidence of their true brotherly love Of old Christians were so charitable in relieving such as were visited with the plague as willingly they hazarded their own lives for proof whereof I will here set down what Dionysius Bishop of Alexandria reporteth in an Epistle to the Brethren in Aegypt Many of our Brethren by Reason of their great love and Brotherly Charity sparing not themselves cleaved one to another visited the sick of the Plague and attended upon them diligently cured them in Christ which cost them their lives and being full of other mens Maladies took the Infection of their Neighbours and translated of their own accord the sorrows of their Neighbours upon themselves fulfilling indeed the Common saying That Friendship is alwaies to be retained and departing this life they seemed the off scouring of others In this sort the best of our Brethren departed this life whereof some were Ministers some Deacons in great reverence among the common people So that this kinde of Death for their great piety and strength of Faith may seem to differ nothing from Martyrdome for they took the dead bodies of the Saints whose breasts and faces and hands lay upwards and closed their eyes shut their mouths and joyntly with one accord being like affectioned embraced them washed them and prepared their
before Prayers By Perfuming of Apparrel Such apparrel as you commonly wear let it bee very clean and perfume it often either with some Virginia Caedar burned or with Juniper and if any shall happen to bee with them that are Visited let such persons as soon as they shall come home shift themselves and ayre their Cloaths in the open ayre for a time By carrying about of Perfumes Such as are to go abroad shall do well to carry Rue Angelica or Zedoary in their hands to smell to and of those they may chew a little in their mouths as they go in the street especially if they bee afraid of any place It is not good to be over fearful but it cannot be but bad to bee over presumptuous and bold Take Rue one handful stamp it in a Morter put thereto Wine Vinegar enough to moisten it mixe them well then strain out the juyce with a peece of spunge put a toast of brown bread therein tye it in a thin cloath bear it about to smell to Take the Root of Angellica beaten grosly the weight of six pence of Rue and Worm wood of each the weight of four pence Setwel the weight of three pence bruise these then steep them in a little Wine vinegar tye them in a linnen cloath which they may carry in their hands or put it into a Juniper box full of holes to smell to Or they may use this Pomander Take Angellica Rue Zedoary of each half a dram Myrrhe two drams Camphire six grains wax and Labdanum of each two drams more or less as shall be thought fit to mix with the other things make hereof a ball to carry about you you may easily make a hole in it and so wear it about your neck with a string The Richer sort may make use of this Pomander Take Citron-pills Angelica seeds Zedoary red-Rose leaves of each half a dram yellow Sanders Lignum Aloes of each one scruple Galliae Moschatae four scruples Storax Calamint Beusoni of each one dram Camphire six grains Labdanum three drams Gum Tragaranth dissolved in Rose-water enough to make it up into a Pomander put thereto six drops of spirit of Roses inclose it in an Ivory box or weare it about your neck By inward Medicines Let none go fasting forth every one according to their fortunes let them eat some such things as may resist putrefaction some may eat Garlick with butter a clove two or three according to the ability of their bodies some may eat fasting some of the electuary with figs and Rue hereafter expressed Some may use London Treacle the weight of eight pence in the morning taking more or lesse according to the age of the party after one hour let them eat some other break-fast as bread and butter with some leaves of Rue or Sage and in the heat of Summer of Sorrel or Wood-Sorrel Of the Physitians To steep Rue wormwood or Sage all night in their drink and to drink a good draught in the morning fasting is very wholsome or to drink a draught of such drink after the taking of any of the preservatives will bee very good In all Summer-Plagues it shall bee good to use Sorrel sauce to bee eaten in the morning with bread and in the fall of the leaf to use the juyce of Barberries with bread also Mithridate's Medicine of Figs. Take of good Figs and Walnut-kernels of each twenty four Rue picked two good handfuls of Salt half an ounce or somewhat better first stamp your Figs and Wall-nuts well together in a stone Morter then add your Rue and last of all your salt mixe them exceeding well take of this mixture every morning fasting the weight of sixteen pence to children and weak bodies lesse Or Take twenty Wal-nuts pilled fifteen Figs a handful of Rue three drams of Tormentil roots two drams of Juniper-berries a dram and a half of Bole-Armoniack first stamp your Roots then your Figs and seeds then add your Wal-nuts then put to your Rue and Bole-Armoniack and with them put thereto six drams of London Treacle and two or three spoonfuls of Wine Vinegar mixing them well in a stone Morter and take of this every morning the quantity of a good Nutmeg fasting they that have cause to go much abroad may take as much more in the evening two hours before supper It is very good to take Tobacco to eat Raisens of the Sun fasting or to drink a pinte of Maligo in a morning against the Infection For Women with Childe and Children and such as cannot take the bitter things before prescribed Take Conserve of Roses Conserve of Wood-Sorrel of each two ounces Conserve of Borrage of Sage flowers of each six drams Bole-Armoniack shavings of Harts-horn Sorrel-seeds of each two drams yellow or white Sanders half a dram Safferon one scruple sirrop of Wood-sorrel enough to make it a moyst Electuary mixe them well take as much as a Ches-nut at a time once or twice a day as you shall finde cause For the Richer sort Take the shavings of Harts-horn of Pearl of Coral Tormentil-roots Zedoarie true Terra-Sigillata of each a dram Citorn-pills yellow white and red Sanders of each half a Dram white Amber Hyacinth stone prepared of each two scruples Bezoar-stone of the East Unicorns horn of each twenty four grains Citron and Orange pills candied of each three drams Lignum Aloes one scruple white Sugar-candie twice the weight of all the rest mixe them well being made into a dredg-powder Take the weight of twelve pence at a time every morning fasting and also in the evening about five of the clock or an hour before supper With these Powders and Sugar there may bee made Lozenges and with convenient Conserves they may bee made into Electuaries Bezoar-water or Treacle-water is good both alone and in composition with these Antidotes London-Treacle is good to preserve from the sickness as also to cure the sick being taken upon the first apprehension in a greater quantity as to a man two drams and lesse to a weak body or a Childe in Cardus or Dragon-water Or Take the finest clear Aloes you can buy in colour like a Liver and therefore called Hepatica of both Cinamon and Myrrhe the weight of three French Crowns or of two and twenty pence of our mony of Cloves Mace Lignum-Aloes of Mastick of Bole-Oriental of each of these half an ounce mingle them together and beat them into a very fine Powder of the which take every morning faâ—â—ng the weight of a groat in white-Wine and Water Or Take a dry Fig and open it and put the kernel of a Wal-nut into the same being cut very small three or four leaves of Rue commonly called herb-grace a corn of salt then roast the Fig and eat it warme fast three or four hours after it and use this twice a week Or Take the powder of Tormentil the weight of six pence with sorrel or scabious water in Summer and in the Winter with the water of Valerian or common