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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03111	Certaine rules, directions, or advertisements for this time of pestilentiall contagion With a caveat to those that weare about their neckes impoisoned amulets as a preservative from the plague. First published for the behoofe of the citie of London, in the two visitations, 1603 & 1625. And reprinted for the benefit of the said citie now visited, and all other parts of the land that may or shall hereafter be: by Francis Herring ... Whereunto is added certaine directions, for the poorer sort of people when they shall be visited.	Herring, Francis, d. 1628.	1636 (1636)	STC 13242; ESTC S104003	9,167	22

the aire by the dilation of those arteries which are spread about the skin Now these poisonfull vapours being entred or sucked into the body when they finde no contrarie poison with whom to wrastle as with an enemy for if there were any venom in the body the partie could not enjoy health but we intend him to be in health whom we would preserve they must needs imprint a malignant venomous qualitie in the spirits and heart most adverse and pernicious to nature If by Galens doctrine all Alexeteries in a manner if they be used somewhat too liberally doe greatly offend and weaken our bodies shall wee thinke that ranke poisons and Deleteries such as Arsenicke is if they be so applied as to penetrate into the noblest region of all other will nothing at all violate and wast our native vitall and radicall heate Galen and the ancient Fathers and Masters of Physicke did not use to preserve from the Plague or any other poison either by giving another poison inwardly or by appointing other poisons to be outwardly applied but proceeded altogether by Antidotes and Alexiteries Lib. de Theriaca ad Pis cap. 16. Therefore unlesse wee will disclaime these ancient worthies and ring-leaders method and follow new-found and unsound devises wee must fight against this monster not with poisons but Antidotes Poisons are desined to be such as at no time doe agree with nature either well or ill affected For though there be poisons which if they finde a contratie venom in the body doe fight so with it that by the skirmish both poisons die and the partie by their contention and colluctation escapeth with his life yet it is agreed on by all that where they finde no such adversary or opposition they speed the partie Therefore Arsenicke worne by a man in health finding not onely no contrary poyson to warre upon but no poyson at all must necessarily oppose and set upon nature her selfe Gerardus Columbus a learned Physitian reporteth that it hath beene observed that the wearers of these Amulets upon heating their bodies have fallen into sodaine Lypothimies and soounings with other fearefull accidents which ceased not till the Bagge or Placent was remooved That others though not instantly yet after some time have by late and woefull experience discerned their malignitie falling into malignate and pestilent feavers some of them ending with death it selfe Franc. Alphanus a Physitian of Salerne telleth of one who wearing Arsenicke and heating himselfe at tennise fell downe sodainly dead Matheus Hessus writeth thus As cordiall bagges or Amulets cannot be disallowed so empoisoned can no way bee commended neither doe I remember that any ever received good from them who abstained from other Antidotes This I certainly know that diverse who carrie about them quick-silver in a nut-shell by the vaine perswasion of some impostors have died of the Plague and the counsellers of such like Amulets have beene the first that have betaken themselves to their heeles trusting more in their running than cunning And yet these good fellowes perswaded the ignorant with great words and it may be oaths that whosoever carried Quick-silver or Arsenicke about his necke was as safe as if hee had purchased a protection from the King of heaven Historians report that Caracalla though a wicked Emperour made a publike Edict or Proclamation that no man should weare about him superstitious Amulets Theophrastus the great esteemed not without cause Pericles to have a crased braine because he saw him weare an Amulet about his necke Hereunto as a Corollary wee may adde the experience of some London Physitians who have seene foule holes made in the breast of those that have worne them and observed diverse to die as well as others who have religiously carried them about their neckes I omit for brevitie to answer their reasons who allow them because those that are alledged by Emperickes and ignorant persons are not worthy the answering and those that are produced by some few learned men the whole streame running against them are not comprehensible by the common sort for whose good I have set forth this short Caveat But if any will contend I will either answer him or yeeld up my weapons In conclusion onely remember that whereas the sellers and setters out of these deceiptfull wares make them as a Scout to discover the Infection when it beginneth to seize upon a man by giving a watch-word and clapping close to the heart to guard that part as the chiefe Tower this is a meere deceipt collusion and abusion For whensoever the body is heated this event followeth necessarily as is before declared though no other infection be neare but the infectious poisonfull and venomous Arsenicke who offereth not at that time to the heart a friendly salutation or caveat but rather a Iudas kisse and Ioab-like imbracing Certaine Directions for the use of the poorer sort of people that shall be visited by the Pestilence how to carrie themselves SInce Almightie God by his wise providence hath disposed that there should be poore among us that the richer sort might have fit objects whereupon to exercise their mercy and compassion and hath commanded in the sacred Scriptures both Magistrates and others to take care of them lest they cry to the Lord against us in their misery and their neglect and contempt be imputed to us as one of our haynous and crying sinnes pulling downe vengeance upon our heads Deuter. 15. I would intreate the Governovrs of the Citie of London and all others in the Country with all richmen to take speciall notice of their poore brethren being bone of their bone and flesh of their flesh and as to restraine the idle Vagabonds by whose wandring up and downe the infection may well be spread and increased so to provide for the true and honest poore miserable people that they may be supplyed with food and convenient Physicke if they fall into sicknesse And because I will not perswade others to charitie and my selfe remaine altogether uncharitable I purpose to set downe certaine curative directions for the poorer sort with such parable and cheape Medicins as may come within the compasse of their short and meane abilitie So soone therefore as any of them apprehend themselves taken with the plague let them goe to their warme bed and take this Medicine Take of Verben with the roote dryed and poudred two dragmes the juyce of the same herbe three ounces halfe a small spoonefull of white Wine vineger mixe it and drinke it warme and sweate for two or three houres Let them not sleepe during the time of their sweating whilst they sweat let them hold under their arme-pits and upon the either emunctories especially the groynes a Radish roote divided into two parts the same roote is to be tyed unto the plants or hollow of their feete when they have sweat well for two or three houres according to the strength and age of the partie dry their bodyes well with warme and