there are some Poysons which if they meet in the body with a contrary venome so fight with it and oppose it that both doe perish in the conflict betwixt them so that the party by their colluctation and strugling together escapes with his life yet all of them agree in uniform opinion together that where they meet with no opposition they ruine the party And therefore conclude that Arsenick worn by a healthy man finding not onely no contrary Poyson to make conflict with but no Poyson at all must necessarily thwart and oppose and make an onset on nature her self And to confirme their opinions I have purposely introduced the judgements of other learned Phisitians concurring with them Garardus Columbus a learned Phisitian reporteth that it hath been observed that the wearers of these Amulets upon unusuall heating their bodies have fallen into sudden Lipothimies and Swounings with other fearfull accidents which continued upon them till the Amulets or Placents were removed from them and that others though not instantly yet after some time have by late and wofull experience discovered their malignity by falling into malignant and pestilent Fevers some of them ending with death Franc. Alphanus a Phisitian of Salerne relateth of one who wearing Arsenick and heating himself with playing earnestly at Tennise fell down suddenly dead Mattheus Hessus also thus writeth As Cordiall Bags or Amulets ought not to be disavowed so empoysoned Amulets can be no way commended nor doe I remember that ever any received good from them who abstained from other Antidotes But this I certainly know that divers persons who carry about them Quick-silver in a Nutshell by the vain perswasions of some Imposters have died of the Plague and the counsellours and advisers of such like Amulets have been the first have betaken themselves to their heeles confiding more in their running than cunning and yet these Quacks perswaded the ignorant people with glorious promises and protestations that whosoever carried Quick-silver or Arsenick about his neck should be as safe as if he had purchased a protection from the King of Heaven Historians also report that Caracalla though he were a wicked Emperour prohibited by publick Edict or Proclamation that no man should wear about him superstitious Amulets And Theophrastus the great not without cause esteemed Pericles to have a crazed brain because he saw him wear an Amulet about his neck And hereunto Doctor Francis Herring an able Phisitian as a Corollary to what hath before been written addeth the experience of some London Phisitians who report they have seen foul holes made in the breasts of those that have worn those Amulets and have observed divers to die who have religiously worn them about their necks as well as others And whereas the venters and setters out of these deceitfull wares make them as a scout to discover the infection when it beginneth to seize on a man by clapping close to the heart to guard that principall part as the cheif Tower It is a meer deceit and collusion for whensoever the body is heated this event followeth necessarily though no other infection be near but the poysonous and venomous Arsenick it self whose salutation is rather Joabs imbracing or Juda's kissing than friendly preservatives Causes of the Plague There are two speciall causes of the Plague First An infected corrupted and putrified air Secondly Evill and corrupt humours ingendered in the Body The air is infected when the tâ—mperatenesse of the air is changed from his naturall state to excessive heat and moisture which is the worst temperament of the air the vapours drawn up by the heat of the Sun being unconsumed rot putrifie and corrupt and so with the venome infect the air Also dead Carkases lying unburied as it often chanceth in Warres evaporations of Pooles Fens Marishes stinking and noysome sents and Kennels and Astronomers say Aspects Conjunctions and Oppositions of ill Planets and Eclipses of the Sun and Moon Also disordering ones self either in diet or exercises bringeth one into the Pestilence therefore in time of contagion outrages and surfets are to be avoided as also all excesse of eating drinking sweating bathing lechery and all other things that open the pores of the body and enter thereby ill aires which invenome the lively spirits Signes of the Plague The signes which declare one infected already are many but the secret token of all to know the infected of the Plague is if there arise botches behind the eares or under the arme-holes or about the share or if Carbunkles suddenly arise in any member for when they appear they betoken strength of nature which being strong laboureth to drive the poyson out of the body but if botches doe not appear it is more dangerous for it sheweth that nature is weak and feeble and not able to expell and thrust forth the venomous humours and then you must have respect to the signes before rehearsed The infection of the Plague entereth into a man after this sort In a man are three principall parts that is the Heart Liver and Brains and each of these hath his cleansing place If they appear in the neck they shew the Brains to be cheifly vexed if under the arme-holes the Heart but if they appear in the share the Liver is most infected For when a man hath taken infection it presently mingleth with the bloud and runs to the heart which is the cheif part of man and the heart putteth the venome to his cleansing place which is the arme-holes and that being stopt putteth it to the next principall part which is the liver and it passeth it to his cleansing place which is the share and they being stopt passe it to the next principall place that is the braines and to their cleansing places which are under the eares or under the throat and they being stopped suffer it not to passe out and then it is moved twelve hours before it rest in any place and if it be not let out within the space of four and twenty hours by bleeding it brings a man into a pestilentiall Ague and causeth a botch in one of those three places or near unto them The Cure of the Plague When thou feelest thy self infected bleed in the first hour or within six hours after drink not and tarry not above twelve hours from bleeding for then when the bloud is flitting too and fro the venome is then moving and not yet setled and after it will be too late those that are fat may be let bloud or else not If the matter be gathered under the arme-holes it comes from the heart by the Cardiacall vein then bleed on the same side by the Basilica vein the innermost vein of the arme If the botch appear behind the eares above the chin or in any other part of the face or neck bleed out of the Cephalica vein on the same side you may bleed with cupping Glasses and Sacrification or Horseleeches If the botch appear in the share bleed in the ankle on
1. c. Half of any thing thus ss A Pound or Pint thus lib. 1. Twenty Graines make a Scruple Three Scruples make a Drachm Eight Drachms make an Ounce Twelve Ounces a Physick Pound Ana. is of either of them so much P. ae is equall parts or parts alike S. a. Secundum Artem according to Art So much as shall suffice is marked thus q. s A defensative against the Plague The first Treatise CHAP. I. What the Plague is THe antient Phisitians in times past have greatly doubted what the essentiall cause of this disease which we commonly call the Plague or Pestilence should be yet all doe agree that it is a pernitious and contagious Fever and reckoned to be one of the number of those which are called Epidemia chiefly proceeding of adusted and melancholy bloud which may be easily perceived by the extream heat and inflammation which inwardly they doe feel that are infected therewith first assaulting the heart and astonishing the vitall spirits as also by the exteriour Carbunkles and botches which it produceth whose malignity is such both in young and old rich and poor noble and ignoble that using all the meanes which by Art can or may be devised yet in some it will in no sort give place untill it hath by death conquered the party infected therewith CHAP. II. Cause of the Plague THere are divers causes whereof this disease may proceed as sundry Writers doe alledge as by over great and unnaturall heat and drought by great rain and inundations of waters or by great store of rotten and stinking bodies both of men and beasts lying upon the face of the earth unburied as in the time of warres hath been seen which doth so corrupt the air as that thereby our Corn Fruits Hearbs and Waters which we daily use for our food and sustenance are infected also it may come by some stinking dunghils filthy and standing pooles of water and unsavory smels which are near the places where we dwell or by thrusting a great company of people into a close narrow or streight room as most commonly we see in Ships common Gaoles and in narrow and close lanes and streets where many people doe dwell together and the places not orderly kept clean and sweet But most commonly in this our time it is dispersed amongst us by accompanying our selves with such as either have or lately have had the disease themselves or at least have been conversant with such as have been infected therewith But for the most part it doth come by receiving into our custody some clothes or such like things that have been used about some infected body wherein the infection may lie hidden a long time as hath been too too often experimented with repentance too late in many places It may also come by Dogs Cats Pigs and Weasels which are prone and apt to receive and carry the infection from place to place But howsoever it doth come let us assure our selves that it is a just punishment of God laid upon us for our manifold sins and transgressions against his divine Majesty for as Seneca saith Quicquid patimur ab alto venit What crosses or afflictions soever we suffer it cometh from the Lord either for a triall of our faith or a punishment for our sins Wherefore to distinguish any farther thereof I think it needlesse for my intent is in brief sort so exactly as I can to shew the meanes how to prevent the same as also how to cure it when we are infected But before I enter to treat thereof I think it not amisse to shew what forewarnings and tokens are given us before hand of the coming thereof thereby the better to prevent the same by prayer and repentance CHAP. III. Warnings of the Plague to come AVicen a noble Physitian saith that when wee see the naturall course of the ayre and seasons of the year to be altered as when the spring time is cold clowdy and dry the harvest time stormy and tempestuous the mornings and evenings to be very cold and at noon extream hot these do foreshew the Plague to come Also when we see fiery impressions in the firmament especially in the end of summer as comets and such like and that in the begining of harvest we see great store of little frogs red toades and myse on the earth abounding extraordinarily or when in summer we see great store of toades creeping on the earth having long tailes of an ashy color on their backs and their bellies spotted and of divers colours and when we see great store of gnats swiming on the waters or flying in great companies together or when our trees and hearbs do abound with Caterpillars Spiders Moaths c. which devoure the leaves on the trees and hearbs on the earth it sheweth the ayre to be corrupt and the Plague shortly after to follow Also by the beasts of the field we may perceive it especially sheep which will go mourning with their heads hanging down towards the ground and divers of them dying without any manifest cause known unto us Also when we see young Children flock themselves together in companies and then will faine some one of their company to be dead amongs them and so will solemnize the buriall in a mournfull sort this is a token which hath been well observed in our age to foreshew great mortality at hand Also when we see rivers of water to overflow without any manifest cause or suddenly vanish away and become dry And when clear well-springs do suddenly become foule and troubled Also when the small-Pox doth generally abound both in young and old people all these do foreshew the Plague to come CHAP. IIII. Sheweth how to prevent the Plague THere are three principall meanes how to prevent this contagious disease The first and chiefest is to acknowledge our manifold sins and wickedness unto almighty God our heavenly Father with a hearty repentance and amendment of our former sins committed against his divine majestie The second means is to fly far off from the place infected and as Rondoletius saith not over hastily to return thither again for fear of an after-clap which saying is confirmed by Valetius in these words Non enim morietur in bello qui non est in illo and the farther from it the safer shall we be yet were it a very uncharitable course that all which are of abillity should do so for then how should the poor be relieved and good orders observed but for Children it were best to send them far off from the place because their bodies are most apt to receive the infection as also for that they cannot so continually use antidots and preservatives which by their great heat may indanger them almost so much as the disease it self The third meanes consisteth chiefly in three points which are these Order Diet and Physicall helps For the first you shall have a care that your houses be kept clean and sweet not suffering any foule and filthy clothes or
and Lavender-water that the child may be the more strengthened thereby She may every day eat toasted bread that nothing may grow to the childe The naturall parts may also be gently stroaked down with this Fomentation The Fomentation Take three ounces of Linseed Of Mallowes and of marsh-Mallowes sliced of each M. i. Let them be put in a bag and boiled moderately Let the woman with child every morning and evening take the vapour of this decoction in a hollow stoole taking great heed that no wind or air come to her in any part and then let her wipe the parts so annointed with a linnen cloth that she may annoint the belly and groins as at the first Being near her time to bring forth so that she be within ten dayes thereof if the woman with child shall begin to feel difficulty and pain let her daily use this Bath The Bath Take of Mallowes Marsh-Mallowes ana M.i. Cammomil Mercury hearb Maiden-hair ana M. ss Of. Linfeed four ounces Let these be boiled in a sufficient quantity of water as may suffice to make a Bath therewith But let not the woman sit too hot on the seat nor higher than a little above her Navill nor let her sit longer on it than about half an hour least her strength languish and decay for it is better to use it often than to stay too long at once in it But if she cannot indure to sit over the water let her cherish her naturall parts with a spunge or with clothes wet in it A Laconick and sweating Bath is not convenient at that time but hurtful though we think women may use it After the Bath she shall alwayes annoint her natural parts of her loines her flankes navil sides and other parts adjoyning thereto with the ointment or fat made of the fore-prescribed thing or cherish them with the fat marrow And also fats melted sometimes and rightly put up into the natural parts with a spunge or glister-pipe if the womb be hot and dry and the party with child be of a lean and slender body Fumes also used applied to the womb conduce to facilitate delivery Suffumigations of the genitals to facilitate delivery Musk Ambergreace Gallia Moscata Aloes-wood put upon hot coales and also sweet Hearbs Mint Penniroyal Calamint Origanum Majoram are of a pleasant and grateful smell and open womens passages and draw down conception But we must beware that such sweet smells of this kind be not used to the nostrils but rather Balls of Galbanum Assa foetida Mirrh or Rue What Meat is most usefull Then Pottage of Hens Capons and such like are most in use and I should advise them then to drink thinne generous Wine allayed with water What manner of Chamber the woman with child should lye in It doth not a little avail to the happy delivery that the Chamber wherein the Child-bearing woman lyeth be temperate and be neither too cold nor too hot for that shutteth up the mouth of the womb and this disperseth and digesteth the strength In Summer time therefore if heat scorcheth the Chamber may be strowed with Willow leaves and Vine leaves and Rose-water with a little Vinegar In Winter a high or upper Chamber moderately kept warm shall be convenient which shall be kept warm with a continued fire as is accustomed to be done in Italy France and other hot Countries But this is expedient every where that the natural parts and those nearest unto them be moderately rubbed with hot clothes CHAP. VII What is to be done at the birth THe birth being at hand and paines oppressing them it shall be fit if the belly doe fall down of its own accord but if it be bound it must be provoked with a gentle Glyster for the excrements being cast out the womb and the passages thorough which the Child issueth are lesse pressed and so the birth followeth more easie These things being well prepared the child-bed woman must be put into bed if tender weak grosse and fleshly but it ought to be made ready after this manner How and wherewith the child-bed womans bed ought to be furnished A large boulster made of linnen cloth must be stuffed with straw and be spread on the ground that her upper part may lye higher than her lower on this the woman may lye so that she may seem to lean and bow rather than to lye drawing up her feet unto her that she may receive no hurt CHAP. VIII To whom the seat may agree and be fit LEt the strong and lusty women be placed in a chair which also must have the lower part not upright but stooping a little that the child-bearing woman may sit as it were bending backward clothes or close compassing garments being cast about their backs In this the belly together with the whole burthen may sooner goe down than in a bed but it often cometh to passe that the whole Babe lyeth at the mouth of the womb before that it shall get forth more loosly and openly with the adjoyning places and by that meanes is compelled to stick longer there from whence ariseth no small danger of life CHAP. IX What the Midwife shall doe in the very moment of the birth VVHen now the pangs of child-bearing women increase more and more let the Midwife inwardly annoint the secret or natural parts with oyle of Cammomil and white Lillies nor let her set the woman in the seat before she perceiveth the womb to be loosed and resolved and the humours to flow over more plentifully Moreover she may not bring her to labour and strugling before the birth shew it self to her view for they doe but labour in vain and doe violently distort and wrest away the strength of the labouring woman that afterward when she shall have need it will not be able to work it forth But she shall sit fitly over against the woman in labour and shall diligently observe on what part the birth moveth it self for if it come the right way she shall annoint and cherish the secret parts with odoriferous Oils and if it declineth to the sides she shall with both hands govern and dispose the belly that it may fall to the mouth of the womb And if the hand or feet shew it self first the Midwife with a soft and gentle hand moistened with broth of Fenugreek and Linseed shall gently reduce it into the place Certain women have the mouth of their womb so streightned that without great help scarce or never they can part with the child And that cometh to pass by reason of divers causes for either some strong heat coming from the natural parts doth two much streighten the inward parts or the Creature is to big or the child-bearing woman is to grosse and fat or the child is dead who cannot by motion be furthering and helping to nature or else cold for the most part in the winter especially in young ones who have a narrow passage of the womb doth more a stringe and bind
to of Ginger â„¥ ss of Nutmegs thirty two a penniworth of long Pepper grossely bruised into the Wine and let it boil one walm then take it off and strein it then put into it a penniworth of Mithridate two penniworth of London Triacle and a quarter of a pint of Angelica water drinke one spoonfull of this every morning fasting one hour after but if the partie be infected then let him drinke two spoonfuls and sweat upon it For the shaking Palsie Take of Cloves two or three ounces as much of Nutmegs pouder them small and mixe them with oyle of Lavender to make them fit for a plaister spread it on Leather and lay it to the nape of the neck and wrists of the hands Or as I have proved Take three penniworth of London Triacle a pennie pot of Neat oyle a pennie pot of Sherrie Sack mix these three things together well and eat a spoonfull or two every morning fasting and at any time of the day after this once or twice a day if you please take a spoonfull or eat it upon new white bread This will help the shaking Palsie and trembling of the heart and make a man cheerfull and merrie Probatum I had the shaking Palsie by working in Mercurie no man more and this in fourteen dayes cured me God be praised Another Steep Mugwort in Rosewater wash the hands therewith and it will cure their shaking and trembling To restore lost Speech Lay a thin peece of raw Beef to the forehead of them that have lost their voice and let it lye one all night To restore speech to an Apoplectick Beat the Kernels of Peach stones together into pouder and give the Patient a good draught thereof in Rennish Wine A Restorative Electuary Take of great Raisins cleansed from their stones lb ii of Licorice scraped and bruised â„¥ i. put these in lb ii ss of cleer water seeth them well and strein them and put into their streining of Mirabolans Hebal Citrine and Indic cleered from their stones ana â„¥ ii of Emblick and Bellerick anaÊ’ ii boyl them presse and strain them then put thereto of pure Sugar lb i. and when they are boyled up to the thickness of a Sirrup adde in the end of choice Cinnamon â„¥ ss Cloves and Galingal anaÊ’ ii of Nutmegs num ii of Fennel and Annise-seed anaÊ’ i. Make it into an Electuarie and put it up into a clean Box agreeable to the complexion of the Patient that shall use it as for the spleen in a Tamarisk or Ash boxe or Juniper for flegmatick persons and so accordingly of others In this Electuary are Medicines for principal Members viz. the Heart the Head Stomack Liver Spleen and Generative parts It is first hot then moist after cold and last dry This Medicine was invented by Arnoldus de villa nova for hindering old age conservation of health prolongation of life it not onely comforteth but purgeth superfluities remaining from the nourishment past keepeth back gray haires strengthneth the stomack and giveth a good colour to the whole body A Restorative good in all diseases Take Elder flours the Eve of S. John Baptist at Midsummer according to the Planet which is Jupiter or according to the Sun diall at twelve a clock Dry these in the East stamp and pouder them then take Borage water and put into it seven or nine grains of the Pissle of a Deer dryed and grated to pouder with a spoonfull of the pouder of the flouers aforesaid Infuse them for 12 houres in three or four ounces of the water for the Patient to drinke for 15. dayes together It restoreth old age and strengthneth the back In fine this is miraculous for all diseases For the Rickets Take of cream two pound and boil it to an oyle or take of unsalted Butter lb ii take three or four good handfulls of Cammomil mince it small and put it into the oyle or Butter and let it boil on a soft fire till the hearbs become crispe and that it be very bitter then strein it and annoint the childs sides downwards and the bottome of the belly and thighes morning and evening Also to give the child thrice a day half a dosen spoonfuls of Harts-tongue water in which you have steped seven or eight Cloves and some brown Sugar Candie to sweeten it If the child mend not with this â„ž Of shoomakers shreds two or three M. boil them in fair water and take off the oyle and annoint the child as before prescribed If the child be not weaned you must wean it otherwise no Medicine will recover it Also you must carry it as little as you can in your armes but when you doe be stirring it and make it try to use the legs if it be of that bignesse Doctor Vanhecks Rosa Vitae â„ž Mercurie sublimate sublimed with â„¥ iv of Roman or Danisk Vittriol Antimonie crude â„¥ ii grinde them well together an hour and half retort these with sand half way up the body of the glasse with a gentle fire five houres and then increase the fire by degrees till with a good fire red begins to come into an Urinal half full of water which precipitates that which is distilled out into a snow white pouder which pouder wash three or four times with fair water till the sharpness be gone Then make an extract of Zedoarie Cinnamon and Galingale ana Ê’ i. and red Sanders Ê’ ii with spirit of Wine â„¥ vi mingle this Extract with â„¥ i. of the foresaid white pouder and grinde them together well and it will dry it self into a red pouder It is given for the French Pox about four grains in the pap of an Apple with butter this will give some five or six vomits It also helpeth Agues and Fevers Dropsie and divers other diseases and is constantly sold for three shillings four pence the dose Probat per me T. S. S A Sear-cloth for divers causes REcipe Of Oyle olive lb i. ss red Lead lb i ss of white Lead lb i. Castile Sope â„¥ iiii Oyle of Bayes â„¥ ii Put your Oyle olive in a Pipkin and put thereto your Oyle of Bayes and the Castile Sope. Seeth these over a gentle fire of Embers till it be well mingled and melted together then strew a little red lead and white being mingled together in pouder still stirring it with a great spatter of wood and so strew in more of your Lead by little and little till all be in stirring it still by the bottome to keep it from burning for an hour and half together then make the fire somewhat bigger till the redness be turned into a gray colour But you must not leave stirring it till the matter be turned into a perfect black colour as Pitch then drop a little upon a wooden trencher and if it cleave not to the trencher nor your finger it is enough Then take long linnen clothes and dip them therein and make your Sear-cloths thereof they will keep 20 yeares let your pouder of your
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
this water following Take Vine leaves two handfuls Beane-flower Dragons wilde-tansey of either one handfull Camphire three drachms two Calves feet the pulpe of three Lemons a pint of raw cream You must shred the hearbs small as also the Lemons and break and cut the Calves-feet small then mix them together and distill it in a glasse still also the water of May-dew is excellent good for any high colour or rednesse of the face For spots in the face remaining when the Pox are gone Take the juice of Lemons and mix it with a little bay-salt and touch the spots therewith oftentimes in the day for it is excellent good A good ointment for the same purpose Take oyle of sweet Almonds oyle of white Lillies of either one ounce Capons-grease Goats-tallow of either four drachms Sarcocoll half a drachm Flower of Rice and of Lupins of either one drachm Litharge of gold one drachm and half Roots of Brionie and of Ireos of either one scruple Sugar-candy white one drachm Make powder of all those that may be brought into powder and searce them through a searce then put them all in a morter together and labour them with a pestle and in the working do you put the water of Roses Beane-flower and of white Lillies ana a great spoonfull which must be put in by little and little in the working of it and so labour them altogether untill it come to an unguent You must every evening annoint the face therewith or hands and in the morning wash it away in the water wherein Barley Wheaten-bran and the seed of Mallowes hath been boyled For holes remaining when the small Pox are gone For helping of this accident I have shewed many things yet never could find any thing that did perfectly content me but the best meanes that I have tried is one day to wash the place with the distilled water of strong Vinegar and the next day with the water wherein Bran and Mallowes have been boyled and continue this order twenty daies or a moneth together Running of the eares how to help it Sometimes the eares do run very much in this disease which in any wise you may not go about to stop in the beginning but suffer it so to run and the eares to remaine open but if there be great pain in them then wet a spunge in warm water and oyle of Roses mixt together and lay it upon the eares For stopping of the nostrills to help it Sometimes the nostrills are greatly pestered by stopping them with the Pox growing in them which doth oftentimes cause ulceration in them therefore to prevent the same take red-Rose and Plantaine of either one handfull Mirrh in powder half an ounce Boyle all these in a quart of water untill half be consumed and so being warm cause the sick to draw the fume thereof into his nostrills oftentimes Also if the sick doth oftentimes smell unto Vinegar it is good For hoarsenesse remaining when the Pox are gone Take Licorice Sebesten Jujubes of either two ounces Fat-Figgs four ounces clean water four pints Boyl all these together untill half be consumed then strain it and give one spoonfull thereof to the sick oftentimes and it helpeth For filthy and moist scabs after the Pox are gone Take Lapis calaminaris Litharge of gold and of silver of either two drachms Quick brâ—mstone and Ceruse anaÊ’ ii Bring all these into fine powder and then labour them in a morter with so much Barrowes-mort or grease as shall be sufficient to make up an unguent and annoint the place therewith every morning and evening FINIS Some other few additionall observations concerning the passages in this latter Treatise PAge the eighth of this precedent Book a Quilt or Bag is commended to be very excellent it is reported to be Pope Adrians Bag which he used against infection and in the great last Sicknesse in London it was commended to many great Persons of worth by some Apothecaries who kept it as a great secret and affirmed it would prevent infection and preserve them safe in that dangerous time and thereupon sold it unto them at a very great rate But that you may not be deluded in the prescription I have set down the true receit thereof as it was delivered unto me from the hands of a very noble friend A Preservative against the infection of the air and the Plague often approved by Pope Adrian and many others of great rank and credit Take Arsenick two ounces Auripigmentum one ounce make little tablets thereof with the whites of Eggs and Gum Dragacanth and hang them about the neck against the heart I have also set down a red Cordiall water very good against infection which I had also from that noble friend Take a quart of good spirit of Wine or very good Aqua-vitae infuse it in one ounce of good Mithridate with as much good Venice Triacle let it be close stopped some few dayes in the infusion before you use it then pour the spirit clear off and reserve it for your use But to discover what opinions other Phisitians have held of that and the like I have annexed hereunto their severall judgements hereafter that amongst so many choise Medicines they may select out the best and safest for their own preservations when need shall require And to give them the better satisfaction I have annexed out of some choise Manuscripts some approved Experiments of some of our London ablest Doctors as also out of some other Authors Severall opinions against wearing of Arsenick Amulets as Preservatives against the Plague THe poysonous vapours of Arsenick being sucked or drawn into the body when they find no contrary poyson with whom to wrestle with as with an enemy for in an infected body there cannot be health but we suppose him to be well whom we desire to preserve so those vapours must needs imprint a malignant and venomous quality on the spirit and heart most adverse and pernitious to nature And by Galens own doctrine all Alexiteries doe in a manner if they be used too liberally greatly offend and weaken our bodies how can we then think that ranke Poysons and Dilaetories such us Arsenick is being applied as to penetrate into the noblest region of all other will no whit violate and wast our naturall vitall and radicall heat Galen libr. de simp cap. 18. Nor did Galen or any of the antient Fathers and Professors of Physick use to preserve from the Plague or any other poison by administring some other poison inwardly of prescribing outwardly Applications but proceeded by Antidotes and Alexiteries as will appear in libr de Theriaca ad Pis cap 16. Wherefore unlesse we will utterly disclaim or relinguish the method and prescripts of these worthy Antients and prosecute new wayes and inventions to oppose this man-yelling Monster we must attempt it not with Poysons but Antidotes And Galen defineth those to be Poysons which agree not with nature either well or ill affected at any time for though
all other drink then what is ordained And be very carefull of his diet for if this Taberdilla which we call here in England Gods Tokens come againe unto the Patient he can hardly escape it And it is no lesse Infectious then the usuall English Plague The Espinlas IS a strange sicknes usuall in those parts to such as take cold in their Breasts after great heat or travell It comes most times to those that lye with their breasts upon the ground especially in the night To know the Espinlas The Party having it will be giddie in the head and have pain and pricking at his breast as with many thornes from whence I thinke it is called for Espina in Spanish signifies a thorn and there will be upon the Focell being the upper bone of his arm a hand breadth above the wrist a little kernell by the which it is certainly known He that hath this disease will have appetite neither to meat nor drinke nor can digest meat though he be invited and moved to take it To cure the Espinlas The Espinlas appearing by the former signs take presently oyle Olives and therewith chafe the kernell upon the Patients arm using so to doe twice every day untill it be dissolved and laying oyle likewise upon his breast stroke it upward somewhat hard with the hand then spread fine flaxe upon it and the kernel making it fast with a rowler and within two or three dayes the diseased will be recovered thereof whereas else it is very dangerous to deprive them of life Camera de Sangre LAxativeness or Blondy Flux proceed in those parts of divers causes As by eating Grapes Oranges Limons Melons Plantains and especially a great fruit growing in the West Indies called Pina like a Pine-apple but bigger then four of the greatest which I have seen which the Spaniars hold for the most delicate fruit that is there and many other fruits Also by sudden cold or sitting being very hot upon a cold stone or being hot by drinking water abundantly And also eating of Butter Oyle and Fish is so hurtfull to the parties that have it that they must refrain to eat thereof and whatsoever else that may ingender any slimie substance in the Intrals The Cure of the Bloudie Flux There is more possibility of cure by how much more expedition the medicine is ministred and detracting it the Patients often die suddenly without feeling much grief For speedy and assured remedie the Patients bodie must be cleansed of the sliminess ingendred in the passages of the nutriments before any sustenance can remain in his bodie To that purpose purge him in the morning with halfe a pint of white wine cold wherein half an ounce of Rubard being smal cut hath been sodden putting some Sugar Candie to it to sweeten it and immediatly after he hath so purged keep at his navell Rosemary sod in strong Vinegar applyed in the morning and evening very hot untill it be stayed giving him often Quinces bruised and rouled in Marmalade like Pills which he should swallow whole and none of the fruits or meats before recited nor any more white wine but red wine of any sort And if it be one the land use the Livers of Goats especially Sheeps or Bullocks rosted not willingly permitting the Patient to eat any other meat And if at Sea Rice onely sodden in water rather then any thing else usuall there untill the infirmitie bee perfectly asswaged The Erisipela REigneth much in those Countries proceeding from the unwholsome aires and vapours those hot Countries doe yeeld whereof many perish and if it bee not prevented by Medicines presently ministred to the Sick Patients it proveth incurable To know the Erisipela Hee will be swoln in the face or some part of him and it will be of yellow colour mixed with red And when it is pressed with the finger there will remain a sign or dint of the same and then by degrees it will fill again to the former proportion It speedily infecteth the inward parts because such swellings come sooner unto perfection in hot places then in temperat Countries and therefore the diseased thereof must immediatly be provided of remedie To Cure the Erisipela The Savage people first found out perfectly how to cure this disease though it is the Spanish name of the Maladie by bruising so much Tobacco as will yeeld four spoonfuls of juyce and to drinke it presently after they are infected therewith and to launce the places swollen thereunto putting Casade wet and made into paste continuing in cold and shadie places neer Rivers and not to travell and labour till they bee recovered The Spaniards in India doe recover themselves by taking the same juyce of Tobacco and setting so many Ventoses upon the swoln places as they can contain scarifying them and drawing out the corrupted humour so congealed using the like in two or three other parts of the bodie where the disease doth not appeare The juyce of Tobacco is very excellent to expell poison and is the ordinary remedie used by the Indians and other Savages when they are poisoned and bitten with Scorpions or other venemous creatures But they make presently some incision where they are bitten or stung and wash it with the juyce of Tobacco then applying the same bruised thereunto two or three dayes they heal it up with dried Tobacco The Tinoso or Scurvie IS an infecting disease sufficiently known unto Sea-fayring men who by putrified meats and corrupted drinks eating Bisket flourie or foul crusted and wearing wet apparrel especially sleeping in it and slothfull demeanour or by grosse humours contained in their bodies get the same To know the Scurvie Many have perished when they returned out of hot Regions into cold Climates where they have had the parts of their bodies which with heat were nimble and tractable to every motion of the Spirits dulled and benummed with cold which is a token that this disease is ingendring in their joynts and soonest appears by swelling of their ankles and knees and blackness of their gums or looseness of their teeth which will sometimes come forth when there is no remedie used in season Preservatives against the Scurvy You must have a care to preserve those things before rehearsed well conditioned the badnesse whereof in part breed this disease they must use exercise of body and such as are exempted from doing of labour must hang or swing by the armes twice or thrice every day they must not have scarcity of drink in hot climates and coming into the cold must be daily releeved with Aqua vitae or Wine It is also an assured Medicine against this disease to have such quantity of Beer brewed with graines and long Pepper as in the morning twice every week there may be given a good draught to a man proportioning three quarters of a pound of graines and three quarters of a pound of long Pepper to a Hogshead of Beer Also white Wine or Syder boyled and brewed with graines and long
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
ill signs in the disease 52. How to know of what humours this disease cometh 53. How to cure the Measels or small Pox. 54. A Clyster 55. How to preserve the eyes ibid. What is to be done when the Pox or Measels are slow in coming forth 57. Another good drink to expell the Pox or Measels ibid. Epithemation for the heart 58. How to quench the thirst ibid. What is to be done when all the Pox are come out ibid. When the Pox after they be come out doe not grow to maturation how you shall help it 60. How to help ulceration ibid. A very good Vnguent for the same purpose 61. For extream heat and burnings in the soles of the feet and palms of the hands ibid. For to help the sorenesse and ulceration of the mouth ibid. For inflammation and pain in the tonsils and throat 62. Another ibid. How to open the eye-lids that are fastened together with the Pox. ibid. A good Collary for a Web or Ungula in the eye ibid. How to help divers accidents which chance after the Pox are cured and gone 63. For rednesse of the face and hands after the Pox are gone ibid. For spots in the face remaining when the Pox are gone ibid. A good Ointment for the same purpose 64. For holes remaining when the small Pox are gone ibid. Running of the Eares how to help it ibid. For stopping of the Nostrils to help it 65. For hoarsenesse remaining when the Pox are gone ibid. For filthy and moist Scabs after the Pox are gone ibid. The Table of the additionall Observations A Preservative against the infection of the Air and Plague often approved by Pope Adrian and many other of great rank and quality 97. A Cordiall water against the Infection ibid. Severall opinions against wearing of Arsenick Amulets as Preservatives against the Plague 98. Causes of the Plague 100. Signs of the Plague 101. How the infection of the Plague entreth into a man ibid. The cure of the Plague 102. Another 103. Another ibid. Another ibid. Another for Botches Boyles and Tokens 104. Experiments for the cure of the Plague 105. Another approved Remedy ibid. A sweating Powder ibid. The Table of the cure of Diseases in remote Regions THe Calenture 106. To know the Calenture ibid. To cure the Calenture ibid. The Taberdilla 107. To know the Taberdilla ibid. The cure of the Taberdilla ibid. The Espinlas 108. To know the Espinlas ibid. To cure the Espinlas 109. Camera de Sangre ibid. The cure of the bloudy Flux ibid. The Erisipela 110. To know the Erisipela ibid. To cure the Erisipela ibid. The Tinoso or Scurvy 111. To know the Scurvy ibid. Preservatives against the Scurvy 112. To cure the Scurvy ibid. Sennertus his Observations of the Scurvy 113. A water to make a man see within forty dayes though he have been blind seven yeares before if he be under fifty yeares of age 115. For the Web in the eye ibid. For the Wind in the side that maketh the head swim ibid. Against Deafnesse ibid. Contra lupum veniens super oculum aut pedem 116. Pro Cancro lupo ibid. Pro oculis ibid. For bleared eyes 117. Cornes ibid. Apostema ibid. For a cold Stomack ibid. For the pain of the Stomack ibid. For wind or gnawing in the belly ibid. For the small Pox. ibid. For a stroak in the eye 118. Bloudshed in the eye ibid. Pro oculo aure ibid. For a venomed Sore ibid. To make a Swelling break ibid. For the Squinsie ibid For biting of a mad Dog ibid. To break a Botch ibid. For gnawings ibid. To increase Milk ibid. If Milk be thick ibid. A Salve for Botches Wounds and Sores ibid. Venena 119. Pro auribus ibid. Caput-purgium ibid. For the bloudy Flix ibid. For Stomack-Wormes ibid. For a Felon ibid. For the Reins of the Back ibid. For them that cannot goe upright for pain in their Back and Reines 120. For the Stitch. ibid. For the Stitch in the side ibid. To heal Wounds ibid. For swelling of Joynts ibid. To knit Sinewes or Veines that are kickt or broke ibid. Ut virga hominis nunquam erigatur ibid. Verrucae Porri ficus 121. For Cornes ibid. For Warts ibid. For a Wound that bleedeth inwardly ibid. If men have any bloud within them of any hurt ibid. Aqua pro scabie tumore pruritu ibid. An vulneratus vivat vel non ibid. To destroy an Imposthume in what place soever it be ibid. For Warts 122. Oleum Nucum ibid. Unguentum Dialaehaeae optimum pro podagra ibid. For the Collick and Stone ibid. Aqua propter ulcera malum mortuum ibid. Aqua pro ulceribus ibid. Capitis dolor 123. For Bones broken in a mans Head ibid. Capitis dolor ibid. Corvi albi ibid. Ebrii ibid. Acetum ibid. Fistula ibid. Pro virga virili combusta cum muliere ibid. Contra exitum ani ibid. Contra fluxum 1â—4 Plaister of Paris ibid. An virgo corrupta ibid. Ut dens cadat ibid. Pro cumbusto cum muliere ibid. A Drink that healeth all Wounds without any Plaister or Ointment or without any taint most perfectly ibid. Unguentum genistae ibid. Unguentum Augustinum is good for all sore Legs that be red and hot ibid. Unguentum viride is good pro erectione virgae and for the Mormale no Ointment worketh stronger then this 125. Unguentum nigrum for Wounds heating and burning ibid. Unguentum Rubrum ibid. Contra Vomitum ibid. Fluxus sanguinis narium ibid. Contra Sciaticam 126. Freckles of the face ibid. To know if a man be a Leper or no. ibid. For ach in the loins ibid. For a scald head ibid. Ad ornatum faciei ibid. If the Liver rot ibid. For stopping of the Pipes ibid. Two more of the same 127. The Plague Water ibid. A Cordial water good for the Plague Pox Measels all kind of Convulsions Fevers and all pain of the stomack ibid. For a child that hath the Ague 128. For a burning Fever ibid. For the Jaundies black or yellow ibid. To bring down the flowers 129. To stay the flowres ibid. For the Mother ibid. For the stone ibid. For a cold cough Ptissick or any defect of the Lungs ibid. For a Stitch. 130. For a Consumption ibid. For the green sickness ibid. A speciall water for all Sores ibid. For the trembling of the heart 131. For a Flux of the wombe ibid. A Purging drink for superfluous humours for aches in the joynts sinews and for Agues ibid. A precious eye water for any disease of the eyes often proved 132. Tutia is thus prepared ibid. You must mix the Aloes with the water after this manner ibid. To bring the Camphire to pouder with the use 133. If there be any thing grown upon the eye ibid. For any Ague ibid. To make Pills to cleanse the back 134. A Bath ibid. For the cough of the Lungs and defluxions ibid. To cause a woman to have her flowers 135. For the Cough of the Lungs ibid. For Cramp or numnesse ibid. Fir a Cough Wind and a cold Stomack 136. For a Cough and a Consumption ibid. For a cold Dropsie ibid. For the Dropsie 137. For an Ague ibid. To comfort and strengthen the joynts and sinnews ibid. For obstructions of Liver and Spleen 138. For the Palsie in the head ibid. Oyle of Saint Johns-wort for ach and pain 139. For the knitting together and the strengthning of bones ibid. For the Courses ibid. A Cordial excellent good for Melancholy panting and trembling of the heart swouning fainting coldnesse and rawness of the stomack and also for many other griefs arising from a cold and moist complexion often proved with happie successe 140. A sudden way to make up this excellent Cordial ibid. Pills to purge flegm and winde 141 For the Gout ibid. My Lord Dennis his Medicine for the Gout ibid. Another for the Gout 142. To stay the Courses when they come down too violently ibid. For the whites ibid. To keep the body soluble and to purifie the bloud ibid. For the green sickness or yellow Jaunaies 143. An Electuary for the green Sickness ibid. An excellent Powder for the green Sicknesse ibid. Another 144. A singular purging Potion against the green Sickness c.. ibid. FINIS
Inflammation and Fever but also prevent the danger of Gangrena which may chance thereby The Bag. Take Mallowes Violets Plantain Liblong ana one handfull Fat Figs â„¥ i. Hollihock roots Lillie roots ana â„¥ i. Lin-seed â„¥ i. You must shred the hearbs grosly and cut the Figgs and roots small then bruise them in a morter and mingle them altogether then put them into two little bags of linnen cloth and boil them in a sufficient quantitie of clean water untill the water be half consumed then take out one of the baggs and wring out the water a little and apply it to the grief warm and when it is cold take it away and lay on the other and doe so half an hour together every dressing which must be twice a day at least The Cataplasm Take Mallows Violets Sorrell Liblong ana two handfuls Henbane a little handfull Wrap them all in a ball together and roast them in the ashes then bruise them in a morter and adde thereto Mel rosarum â„¥ iiii Triacle Ê’ i. ss Saffron in pouder half a drachm Yolks of five Eggs. Mix them together with the rest adding some Barly flower thereto to thicken it and apply it warm renuing it alwaies before it grow dry and stiffe and every dressing you must Epithemate the grief first with the baggs aforesaid and this order must be continued untill the pain and Inflammation be gone then to bring it unto Suppuration if you adde to the foresaid Cataplasm some oyle of Lillies and sweet Butter unsalted it will be very good or you may make this Cataplasm following Take Soot of the chimney â„¥ iii. Bay salt â„¥ i. ss Yolks of two or three Eggs. Mix all these together in a morter and apply it to the grief warm which must be alwaies renewed and changed before it grow dry and stiffe this order must be continued untill the sore come to suppuration then to remove the scar and finish the cure doe you follow the order prescribed in the beginning of this Chapter There are other dangerous accidents which dâ—e sometimes chance in the botch or Carbuncle which here to treat of would little avail the unexpert people because they know not the means how to execute the same but if any such thing chance then doe I wish you to seek the help of some learned Physitian or expert Chirurgion whose counsell I doe wish you to follow The End of the Second Treatise A Short Treatise of the Small Pox shewing the Means how for to govern and cure those which are infected therewith CHAP. I. Sheweth what the Small Pox and Measels are and whereof it proceedeth FOr that oftentimes those that are infected with the Plague are in the end of the disease sometime troubled with the small Pox or Measels as also by good observation it hath been seen that they are fore-runners or warnings of the plague to come as Salius and divers other writers doe testifie I have thought it good and as a matter pertinent to my former Treatise to shew the aids and helps which are required for the same I need not greatly to stand upon the description of this disease because it is a thing well known unto most people proceeding of adusted bloud mixt with flegm as Avicen witnesseth which according to both ancient and latter Writers doth alwaies begin with a Fever then shortly after there ariseth small Pustulaes upon the skin throughout all the body which doe not suddenly come forth but by intermission in some more or lesse according to the state and qualitie of the bodie infected therewith for in some there ariseth many little Pustulaes with elevation of the skin which in one day doe increase and grow bigger and after have a thick matter growing in them which the Greeks call Exanthemata or Exthymata and after the Latines Variola in our English tongue the small Pox and here some Writers doe make a difference betwixt variola and exanthemata for say they that is called variola when many of those Pustules doe suddenly run into a clear bladder as if it had been scalled but the other doth not so yet they are both one in the cure they doe most commonly appear the fourth day or before the eight day as Avicen witnesseth What the Measels or Males are Avicen saith That the Measels or Males is that which first cometh with a great swelling in the flesh with many little Pimples which are not to be seen but onely by feeling with the hand are to be perceived they have little elevation of the skin neither doe they grow to maturation or end with ulceration as the Pox doth neither doe they assault the eyes or leave any deformity behind them as the Pox doth neither are they so swift in coming forth but doe grow more slowly they require the same cure which the Pox have they proceed of cholerick and melancholie bloud The cause of the Pox and Measels The primitive cause as Valetius saith is by alteration of the aire in drawing some putrified and corrupt quality unto it which doth cause an ebullition of our bloud The cause antecedent is repletion of meats which do easily corrupt in the stomack as when we eat milk and fish together at one time or by neglecting to draw bloud in such as have accustomed to doe it every year whereby the bloud doth abound The conjunct cause is the menstruall bloud which from the beginning in our mothers wombs wee received the which mixing it self with the rest of our bloud doth cause an Ebullition of the whole The efficient cause is nature or naturall heat which by that menstruall matter mixing it self with the rest of our bloud doth cause a continuall vexing and disquieting thereof whereby an unnaturall heat is increased in all the body causing an Ebullition of bloud by the which this filthy menstrual matter is seperated from our natural bloud and the nature being offended and overwhelmed therewith doth thrust it to the outward pores of the skin as the excrements of bloud which matter if it be hot and slimie then it produceth the Pox but if dry and subtil then the Measels or Males But Mercurialis an excellent writer in Physick in his first Book de morbis puerorum cap. 2. agreeing with Fernelius in his Book De abditis rerum causis c. 12. doth hold opinion that the immediate cause of this disease doth not proceed of menstrual bloud but of some secret and unknown corruption or defiled quality of the aire causing an Ebullition of bloud which is also verified by Valetius and now doth reckon it to be one of the hereditable diseases because few or none doe escape it but that either in their youth ripe age or old age they are infected therewith The contention hereabout is great and mighty reasons are oppugned on both sides therefore I will leave the judgement thereof unto the better learned to define but mine opinion is That now it proceedeth of the Excrements of all the four humours in our bodies