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A06182	A treatise of the plague containing the nature, signes, and accidents of the same, with the certaine and absolute cure of the feuers, botches and carbuncles that raigne in these times: and aboue all things most singular experiments and preseruatiues in the same, gathered by the obseruation of diuers worthy trauailers, and selected out of the writing of the best learned phisitians in this age. By Thomas Lodge, Doctor in Phisicke.	Lodge, Thomas, 1558?-1625.	1603 (1603)	STC 16676; ESTC S108807	56,880	92

and onely reserue some to their ordinarie vse For where there is a pestilent sickenesse in a house it continually infecteth the ayre where it raigneth the garments couerlets bedding and shéetes and all things that are capable thereof or either receiue the breath sweat spittings or vapor that issueth from the sick and al things that are of a slender substance and full of pores are fit to receiue and that verie easily such infection as are woollen linnen cotten and feathers wherefore it behooueth aboue all other things that such houshold-stuffe be carefully cleansed aired washed and purged For if they be once attaynted they long time retaine the infection in them because the venime inbibeth and incorporateth it self in their substance very vehemently by reason of the spongines and thinnest of these things and as oyle pitch and rosin and such like norish conserue and augmēt the fire in that they yéeld it a conuenient matter so likewise doth woollen cotten fethers linnen and such like nourish and entertaine for a long time that infection which is imparted vnto them from the sicke retaining the pestilēt venime conceiued in them for a long time Euen as we sée chists and coffers where we lay swéet bags to perfume our linnen or garments doe long time retaine that odor which we laid on them as lauender roses oringes and such like which sort of odour is maintained a long time in these garments and linnen as experience teacheth vs which also we sée in Cotton wherein a man hath wrapped muske or ciuet which keepeth the said odour an infinite time The which the Poet Horace hath aptly expressed in this verse Quo semel est imbuta recens seruabit odorem Testa diu The vessel long time will retaine The odor which it first did gaine Since therefore such infection may long time remaine hidden in the things aforesaide wée ought very diligently to cleanse them after this forme that ensueth The garments of such as are dead of the plague if they be rich ought to be burned according as the custome is in Italy or if poore whose misery is such as they cannot buy new let the cloathes they haue vsed be bucked and washed in lie and oftentimes exposed to the northerly winde and sunne and perfumed with rosemary Iuniper and such like and in time of drith be exposed to the Northerne ayre which drieth al infectious vapors for the garments that are infected may retaine the same foure yeares nay the feather-beds seauen yéeres as Alexander Benedictus testifieth Note also that feather-beds cannot be cleared except the tikes be opened and the downe be ayred till a moneth or forty dayes be past in which time they may be purified Let each bench wenscote and other tables of the house be thorowly washed with water and vineger so that no sluttish corner be left Let the windowes by day be kept open to the north and shut when the south wind bloweth Thus in xxiiii dayes may the wooden implements be ayred If any sicke man hath afore worne a furr'd gowne let each man beware how he weareth it after for furre is too apt to take infection as appeareth in those xxv hie Almaines of whom Hierome Fracastorius maketh mētion who in the yeare 1511. in Verona died one after another til al were made away by wearing of that gowne The surgeon that hath assisted the sicke after xl dayes triall may be admitted to conuerse the Citty and so the rest after sixty so preseruatiues and purges haue béene obserued and especialy so mirth ioy and pleasure haue been their companions if men obserue these precepts they may by Gods helpe and by kéeping good order auoyde the plague by those meanes I haue discouered by which helps there wil be no humors capable of infection and where there is no matter fit to receiue the same there can it not surprise any man Generall rules to bee obserued by all men in the plague time FIrst must we call vpon God desiring him to defend vs secondly but especially when we are fasting we ought to flie from the conuersation of those that are infected Let the wind be betwéene thée and the person that is sicke or some perfume be kindled or hold in thy hand some odoriferous perfume Fly the narrow wayes and stréets where are dunghils hant no vaine assemblies of feasts but if thy meanes be to follow Hippocrates rule Fuge longe cito Tarde or if thou must néeds stay be temperate aduised deuout and God shal blesse thée to whose mercy and thy harty praiers I humbly commend me FINIS A Table or Index A. ANgelica roote to prepare it fol. 7. Aptham how to helpe it fol. 26. B. BLoud when and where it is to be drawn fol. 17 18.40 Bolarmoniake how to prepare it fol. 19. Botch in the throte to cure it fol. 17. Botch how to know where it will be although no signe appeare fol. 18. Botch the generall cure thereof fol. 30. Botch that is hard and will not come to maturation how to helpe it fol. 32 Botch how to draw it from one place to another fol. 34 Botch when hee strickes in againe how to bring him out fol. 33. Botch how to draw him frō one place to another fol. 34. C. Carbunkle or blayne how to know him as also to cure it fol. 35. Carbunkle with paine and inflammation to helpe it f. 36 Chickens how to applie them fol. 17 Cordiall preseruatiues fol. 4. Cordiall to be taken after purging fol. 26. Costiuenes how to helpe it fol. 8.9 D. Digestiue for a botch how to make it fol. 30.31.33 Dyet to be kept in time of the plague fol. 11. Dyet for them that haue the small pockes fol. 41. E. EAres how to preserue them from the pockes fol. 41. Eares running of them what you must do to it fol. 47 Epithemation to comforte the harte fol 2.42 Epithemation for a botch fol. 34. Exercise and orders to be kept in the plague fol. 12. Eyes how to preserue them from the pockes fol 41 Eye paine and burning therein to ease it fol. 41 Eye perle or web therein to helpe it fol. 46 Eyes fastered and clong together to helpe it fol. 46. F. Faynting and pounding to helpe it fol. 23 Face how to preserue it from deformiting in the small pockes fol. 43. Face spotes therein and rednes after the pockes are gone to helpe it fol 46 Feete extreame heate in them with the smal pockes to helpe it fol. 45. Floures of wemen stopt to prouoke them fol. 10.11 Flixe how to stop it fol. 25. H. HAndes and feete extreame heate in them with the small pockes to helpe it fol. 45. Head lightnes and paine therein for want of sleepe f. 25 Holes in the face with the small pockes what is to bee done to it fol. 47 Hoarsnes remayning after the pockes are gone to helpe it fol. 48 I. Issues commended against the plague fol. 11. Iuleps Cordiall to make them fol. 22. Iulep to quench thirst fol. 23.24 L. LAske or flixe how to stop it fol. 25. Longs how to preserue them from the pockes f. 41. M. MAturatiue to ripe and rot a botch fol. 31.32.35 Mouth vlceration therin called Aptham to helpe it fol. 26. Mouth sorenes and vlceration therein with the small pockes how to preuent and cure the same fol. 45. Mundificatiue for a carbunkle or blayne fol. 36. N. Nodule against the plague fol. 7. Nosgaye against the plague fol. 7. Nostrels how to preserue them from the pockes fol. 41. Nostrels stopt and vlcerated with the small pockes to helpe it foll 47. O. Opiat good to expell the plague fol. 19. Oyntment to keepe on sollible fol. 8. Oyntment to prouoke sleepe and ease paine of the head fol. 26. Oyntment to keepe the face from pitting in the small pockes fol. 43. P. Parfumes against the plague fol. 3 Pilles to keepe one sollible fol 9. Pilles to purge the body fol 9. Plague what it is fol. 1. Plague cause thereof fol. 1. Plague forewarnings thereof fol. 2. Plague how to preuent it fol. 2 Plague how to cure it fol. 16. Plague how to expell it fol. 18. vnto 21. Pomanders against the plague fol. 6. Potion to purge the body fol. 10. Potion to expell the plague fol. 20. Preseruatiue against the plague fol. 4. Pouder to purge the body fol. 10. Pouders to expell the plague fol. 18.19 Pockes and measels whereof they proceede fol. 38 Pockes and measels how to cure them fol. 40 Pockes why they are infectious fol. 39. Pockes how to maturate them fol. 44. Pockes or measels that are slowe in comming forth to helpe it fol. 42. Pocks and measels how to vse them when they are come forth fol. 43. Pockes vlcerated how to cure it fol. 44. Purgation for a strong body fol. 24 Purgation for a plethoricke body fol. 24. Purgation for a weake body fol. 25. Purging when it is tollerable fol. 24 Q Quilte against the plague fol. 5. Quilte for the harte after sweate fol. 22. R Rauing and raging to helpe it fol. 26. Raysins laxatiue how to make them fol. 8 S Signs to know whē one is infected with the plague f 15 Signes of recouerie in the plague fol. 15 Signes of death in the plague fol. 15. Signes to know whē one is infected with the smal pox f. 39. Signes laudable and ill signes in the small pockes f. 39. Scabes which chance to come after the pockes are gone to helpe them fol. 48. Sleepe when it is tollerable fol. 23. Sleepe an oyntment to prouoke it fol. 26. Sounding how to helpe it fol. 23. Suppository how to make it fol. 8. T Thirst a Iulep to quench it fol. 23.24.43 Throte botch therein to helpe it fol. 17 Throte how to preserue it from the pockes fol 41. Throte vlceration therein to helpe it fol. 45. V Ventoses when and where to applie them fol. 18. Vessicatorie how to make it fol. 32. Vesicatorie of the sicke fol. 14. Vnguent defensatiue against the plague fol. 21. Vlceration of the small pockes to helpe it fol. 44. Vnguent for spots and rednes of the face fol. 47. Vomiting extreamely to helpe it fol. 28. W Water good against the plague fol. 20 Water for spots and rednes of the face after the small pockes are gone fol. 46. Y Yexing or yoxe how to helpe it fol. 28

it to the inferior bodies Let vs therefore cast off this vaine and sottish opinion whereby we are induced to beléeue that the Plague procéedeth from the heauens that is to say from the influence of the starres as by the vanitie of time we haue had inducements But let vs confesse that it procéedeth from the secret iudgements of God who intendeth by this scourge to whip vs for our sinnes as it appeareth in Leuiticus and Deuteronomy To conclude we say that the cause of the Plague is a malignant alteration and corruption of the ayre infecting our bodies as it hath bene declared in the beginning of this Chapter CHAP. III. Of the signes of the Plague both impendent and present with the good and euil signes appearing in pestiserous sicknesses THe signes whereby a man may know the infection of the aire which threatneth vs with Pestilent sicknesses are when as we sée the same continuall and accustomably troubled with thicke cloudy moyst and ill smelling vapours the Skie vnaccustomed to Northren windes but sollicited with Southerly blastes The aire full of fogges and vapours making a showe of raine without any showers For such signes as are of that nature engender corrupt Feuours as Aristotle saith in his Probleames If the winter be hote and moyst and obserue not his naturall temperature and when the Spring time is very dry without raine and notwithstanding colde and after for many dayes charged with Southerly windes troubled aire and then cleare and afterwards suddainly ouercast the nights colde and the day very hotte and soultry It signifieth that we shall haue an euil Plague the Sommer after Moreouer if at that time there appeare any increase of such creatures as are engendred of putrifaction as wormes of the earth flies gnattes eales serpents toades frogs and such like foretokening corruptiō and putrifaction in the earth and waters and when the aire the same day chaungeth from faire to foule and from cleare to cloudy when the Sunne shineth and afterwards hideth his head in cloudes in one and the same day it is a signe that the temperature of the aire is altered And when as Rats Moules and other creatures accustomed to liue vnder ground forsake their holes and habitations it is a token of corruption in the same by reason that such sorts of creatures forsake their wonted places of aboade And when as the Birds of the aire fall downe dead or forsake their nests it is a signe of great corruption and contagion in the same Long and continuall raines accompanied with Southerly windes dispose the ayre to sicknesses and putrifaction as Hipocrates and Galen testifie in their Epidemies When as Feuers are accompanied with small Poxe or Mesels with spots or red markes like to the biting of Fleas it is a signe of a pestilent Feuer When the sicke is very much tormented with the passion of the heart vomitings soundings or weaknes or faintnes of the hart without great outward but vehement inward both heate and drought with appearance of swellings botches carbuncles and Mesels without all question he is seized with a pestilential Feuer especially if diuers at the same time and in the same place are attainted with the same griefe and if so be the partie which is infected hath frequented places both contagious and infected Sée heere the the principall signes of the Plague and pestilentiall Feuer The euill dangerous and mortall signes in such as are diseased are féeblenes and weaknes of the regitiue vertue of the body which may be discouered by the pulse when it is weake vnequall disorderly lanquishing and intermittent by often Sincopes or soundings alienation and frenzie blewnesse and blacknesse appearing about the sores and carbuncles and after their appearances the sodaine vanishings of the same cold in the extreame partes and intollerable heate in the inward vnquenchable thirst cōtinually soundings vrines white and crude or red troubled and blacke Colde swet about the forehead and face crampes blacknesse in the excrements of the body stench and blewnes the flux of the belly with weaknesse of the heart shortnes of breath and great stench of the same lacke of sléepe and appetite to eate profound sléepe chaunging of colour in the face exchaunged to palenesse blacknesse or blewnesse cogitation or great vnquietnes All these signes betoken either certaine death or daunger thereof in the Plague euen as contrariwise the contrary foretoken recouery of the sicknesse by reason they testifie vpon the regitiue power and vertue of the bodie goodnesse of the complexion and vertue of the same with strength of the hart For as Auicen sayth They that are manly and confidently beare out their sicknesse without any showe of feare they are those which for the most part escape Likewise to haue a good appetite to sléepe in repose without disturbance of the body it is a good signe The Botches and Carbuncles to retaine a good colour and without great paine to be brought to ripenesse and supponation to haue a moderate heate mayntained through all the body The vrines in disgestion colour substance contents to be good To haue easie breathing swet warme vniuersall through all the body appearing on a decretory or criticall day All these signes appearing in the infected person giue great hope of his recouery These bée the signes and tokens by which you may gather a sure and vnfained iudgement of that which shall befall him that is attainted with the Plague CHAP. IIII. A Rule and instruction to preserue such as be in health from the infection WHen as by the will of GOD the contagion of the Plague is gotten into any place Citie or Countrey we ought to haue an especiall regard of the generall good and by all meanes to study for their preseruation who are in health least they fall into such inconueniencie First of all therefore it behooueth euery man to haue speciall care that he frequent not any places or persons infected neither that hée suffer such to breath vpon him but as Galen hath learnedly aduised in his Booke De Differentijs Frebrium Chap. 2. Estrange himselfe as farre as him lyeth from their societie The first and chiefest remedie then is to chaunge the place flie farre and returne late Hipocrates likewise in his Booke De Natura humana saith that wee ought to forsake the place whereas a generall sicknesse rangeth according to the common Prouerbe Cito longe tarde And if necessitie constraineth vs to frequent the infected either to be assistant to our friends or otherwise euery man ought to demeane himself in such sort that the sick mans breath doo not attaint him which may very easily be done if a man haue the skill to choose take the winde that properly bloweth towards the sicke infected and not from the infected to the healthfull And therefore in that case the healthfull ought to kéepe themselues vnder not ouer the winde The first part of preseruation is to purifie and purge the ayre from all euill vapours sentes

stench corruption putrifaction and euill qualitie For which cause it is necessary to make good fumes in our houses of swéet and wholesome wood as Rosemarie Iuniper and Lawrell or Bayes and to perfume the whole house and chambers with the fume of Rosemary Iuniper the parings of Apples Storax Beniamin Incence dried Roses Lauender and such like both Euening and Morning It is not amisse likewise at euery corner of the stréet at least twise in the wéek to make cleare and quicke Bonefires to consume the malignant vapours of the ayre according as Acron the great Phisitian commaunded to be done during the mortall plague in Greece As Paulus Aegineta testifieth in his second Booke Chap. 35. It is good also to weare swéet sauors and perfumes about vs such as in Winter time are Marcorame Rosemarie Storax Beniamin or to make a Pomander after this sort that ensueth and to weare it about vs to smell too vpon all opertunities Take of the flowers of red Roses of Violets of Buglos of each halfe a little handfull of the thrée Sanders of each a Dramme of the rootes of Angelica Gentian and Zedoary of each foure scruples of white Encens Cloues Nutmegs Calamus Aromaticus of each a dram of Storax Calumit and red Beniamin of each a dramme and a halfe of orientall Muske a scruple of Amber-greece halfe a scruple of Ladaum infused in Rose-water one ounce mixe all these together in Rose-water where in the Gum Dragacanth hath béene infused and with a little of Rose-vinegar make a paste of which you may forme certaine rounde Pomanders to weare about your necke and smell vnto continually Or take of Rose-water thrée ounces of white Vinegar of Roses ij ounces of white Wine or pure Malmosie two spoonfuls of the powder of Cloues of the roote of Angelica and Storax of each halfe a dramme mixe them all together and with this liquor it shall not be amisse to wash your hands bedeaw your forehead nostrils and the pulces of your armes for such an odour and of so wholesome a qualitie vehemently repulceth the venome that assaileth the heart and altereth the pestilence of the ayre It shall not be amisse likewise to carrie an Angelica roote in your mouth or a Gentian or Zedoary roote or else the rine of an Orange Lemon or Pomecitron which as Auicen testifieth haue soueraine effects in this case The continual vses of these good odors comforteth the heart and vitall spirites driueth away all venemous vapours and rectifieth the ayre that whirleth about vs as Auicen testifieth in his Booke Of the Forces of the Heart For which cause they which desire the continuance of their health ought neuer to be vnprouided of these things Amongst all other medicines that haue the propertie to comfort and reioyce the heart the Easterne Hyacinth béeing worne about the brest and next vnto the naked skin or else held in the mouth is very effectuall as Auicen testifieth in his Booke Of the Forces of the Heart in that Chapter wherein hée entreateth of the Hyacinth where hée saith that the sayd Stone hath not only a propertie to fortifie the heart and quicken the vitall spirites but also to resist all venomes For which I aduise all such as haue both meanes and maintenance to get such a iewel to carrie the same either in their mouthes or continually about their neckes neare vnto the region of their hearts by reason of that excellent propertie which all Authors by vniforme consent attribute vnto the same CHAP. V. The meanes and preseruatiues which are to be ministred inwardly against the Plague GAlen in his first booke of the differences of Feuers and in that Chapter wherein he intreateth of the pestilent Feuer saith That to preserue the body from infection it shall be very necessarie to clense and purifie the same from al corruptions and superfluities by sit purgations and to take away these oppilations and stoppings which are the meanes that naturall heat cannot bee dispersed to dry the body from humidities and to maintaine such bodyes as are drie in their Estates In imitation of whose opinion and direction it shall be good to euacuat and expell those superfluities of humours which abound according to there natures age complexion vertue quantitie and qualitie who are forced with the same superfluous humours It is therefore note worthy in suspected and dangerous times that no accustomed euacuations either by fluxe of Hemeroides or of the belly old vlcers menstruall blood itches or such like should be restrained For those purgations which are of this kinde doo clense the vnnecessary humours and by this meanes maketh the body healthfull whereas such humours being either repressed by astringent medecines or such like ointments might greatly hurt the principall members and produce strange sicknesses in the same And for this cause Galen and Hipocrates write That it is a good signe when as any defluxion is expelled from the inward and principall parts of the body where contrariwise if the same be transported from the outward to the inward parts it is a most euil and sinister signe For which cause in the Plague time it is the surest way rather to suffer those superfluities to haue their course then to stop or stay them by any medecine because by the voydance thereof the body is purged from the same superfluities which being retained might wonderful annoy it Which counsaile of theirs may serue for an aduertisement to all those that shall be so disposed and affected in the time of the Plague It behooueth therefore such as be Sanguine full in loue and youthfull in yeares to be let blood after a competent manner thereby to diminish their replexion and aboundance of blood Those that are chollerique ought to be purged with an infusion of Rubarb if they be wealthy and if poore with the Electuary of the iuice or Roses by taking thrée Drammes or halfe an ounce thereof in Sorrell Endiue or Purslane water or else by Diacatholium Diaprunis Laxatiue the sirope of Roses Cassia or the pilles of Rubarb Femetorie or those that for their gentle working are called by the Phisitians Aureae The Flegmatique ought to be purged with Agaric Diaphenicon Diacarthami the pils Aggregatine Cochiae according to the strength of their bodyes the qualitie of the humor which are offensiue at the discreton of the learned experienced Phisitians by whose directions and prescriptions such medecines are to be ministred not according to the custome of this time by foolish Idiotes and ignorant Emperiques Such as are melancholy should be purged with the infusion of Sena and Epithemum with a little Anice seede and Diacathelicon with the Confection Hamech Diasene Solutiue the pilles of Femitory and Aureae I forbeare to call the pils De lape Armeno and Lasuli into vse because they are too violent and scarcely well prepared Such as are weake and delicate persons As woman with childe children and aged people it shall suffice to purge them with an ounce of