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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A58209	The meanes of preventing, and preserving from, and curing of the most contagious disease, called the plague with the pestilential feaver, and the fearfull symptomes, and accidents, incident thereunto. Also some prayers, and meditations upon death.	M. R.	1665 (1665)	Wing R45; ESTC R217714	13,667	27

THE MEANES OF Preventing and Preserving from and CURING of that most Contagious Disease called the PLAGUE WITH The Pestilential Feaver and the fearfull Symptomes and Accidents incident thereunto Also some Prayers and Meditations upon Death By one who desires it may bee for the glory of God and the good of all People Amos 3.6 Shall there bee evil in the City and the Lord hath not done it LONDON Printed for H. Million at the Half Moon in the Old Bayley 1665. THE EPISTLE TO THE READER Kind Reader I Must begge one thing of thee if God by his Providence glance thine eyes upon this little peece to read it throughout for it is intended for the general good of all and especially for the Poor I desire thee not to slight this opportunity put into thy hands for thou knowest not how few dayes may pass over thy head but thou thy self or some of thy Friends may perish for want of such Directions as this small Treatise can afford thee which under God may bee an Instrument of much good unto thee or thy Friends This I do promise thee that when thou hast bought it thou wouldest not be without it for three times what it cost thee Therefore neglect no opportunity wherein thou mayest bee doing good Some may say this is a little Pamplet there bee greater Volumns both of Physick and Chyrurgery published by men of known Abilities To this I may answer that the wisest men seldome judge of things by bigness but trying all things they embrace the best And again the poor are locked from them several waies First they are in Latin so that the poor cannot read them Or suppose there 's are enough to be bought in English sure I am the prices of them are so high rated that the poors purse will not bear it Here kinde Reader thou mayest have Directions that tend for the good of thy soul as well as thy body And if thou reapest any benefit by this little piece return the praise and the glory of all unto God then have I attained the expected end of this my labour Farewell M. R. THE Means of Preventing and Preserving from and Curing of that most Contagious Disease called the PLAGUE The Plague what it is THe Plague is a Disease Venomous and Contagious and hateful to mankinde and deadly for the most part accompanied with grievous sores as Carbunkles Botches Blains and also spots and discolourings of the skin by antient Writers called Pestities and in English Gods Tokens For the Pestilential Bubo and Carbunkle are more manifest signes of the Plague than the spots for spots are seen in Feavers which are not Pestilential The Plague may bee fitly called the Rod of God for the sins of the World The word Plague signifies a wound a stroke or a hurt for whosoever hath this disease hee is wounded plagued strucken and that by God it is a killing Disease fearful to man unawares seizeth upon mans Body sleeping or waking and being once entred produceth deadly accidents it is compared with the Basilisk that killeth man by his sight looking upon man The Plague killeth those whom it breatheth upon no man can account himself free from it Many learned Writers testifie this Disease proceeds from the influence of the Heavens so that by their great distemperature the Ayre is Poyloned and infected which wee are enforced to receive into the secret Closets of our Bodies What safety have wee then or what can be a more fearfuller enemy to man than Pestilential Feavers which seizeth upon man as a Thief at unawares and lurks in every corner of the House in his Secret Chambers threatning to take away his life when hee least mistrusts yea when fast asleep Such is this horrid Disease from which God in his mercy deliver us and our Land Of the parts of Mans Body the Plague invadeth Three parts Subject to Infection the Animal Vital and Natural faculties which have their Seats in the Brain the Heart and the Liver on one or all these the Infection seizeth upon and once entred tryumpheth over the whole body of man to his destruction if God bee not more merciful in his Preservation The Plague is a Feaver hee that hath it is not without a Feaver neither is hee freed from the danger of this Feaver till one or more than one of the Crisis happen for until the Botch Carbunkle Blain or Spots manifest themselves no account can bee given what will become of the Patient Wee may expect death the distemper continuing Symptomes of Recovery The first is this If a digestion in Nature follow and the Feaver cease the sick rest a Botch come to good perfection a Carbunkle to separation and the Blains drying and withering and chearfulness appearing then wee may hope the worst is past The causes of this Disease And that is the sins of all people Sin makes God Execute this Judgement upon a Nation Shall there bee evil in a City and the Lord hath not done it Now God can put the Host of Heaven in order to fight against us and wee have no way to escape his Judgements but by Prayer and true Repentance and this is that which brings a blessing upon the means you use for your Recovery The terrestrial Causes of the Plague are these Vapours from stinking Ponds Ditches Dung-hills Sinks Channels Vaults unclean Slaughter-houses of Beasts dead Carkasses of Men Stinking Fish Fowle any thing that hath contained life and is putrified and in great Cities as in London unclean keeping of Houses and Lains Alleys and Streets from these recited and the like venomous Vapours by the warmth of the Sun exhailed Infects the Bodies of Men and produceth the Plague which once produced is too apt to spread it self and become popular as experience sheweth The Accidental signs of the Plague They are various and uncertain not in all persons alike but to speak in general The first appearance of the Plague it appeareth cold pain in the head and in the stomach and sometimes in the back and them took for an Ague and little feared Those whole pains begins in the back all these kinde of beginnings are more hopeful of healing then when it beginneth with pain and giddiness of the head and stomach 2 Others complain of Pain with great heat inward in the stomach and intrails When the outward parts are chill and cold ready to shake Again Some in the beginning complain of great thirst others of shortness of breath swelling and soreness of the throat Again some are taken with desire of sleep and unfrequent yawnings and it is unsafe to let these sleep before they are well sweated And therefore my desire is that you would not delay but apply this Medicine Take of Zedory In powther half a dram common Treacle half a spoonful white-Wine Vinegar three spoonfuls Take this upon any Infection of the Plague as soon as you are sensible of it and sweat upon it as long as the spirits will bear it Repeat this