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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42397	A mite cast into the treasury of the famous city of London being a brief and methodical discourse of the nature, causes, symptomes, remedies and preservation from the plague, in this calamitous year, 1665 : digested into aphorismes / by Theophilvs Garencieres ...	Garencières, Theophilus, 1610-1680.	1665 (1665)	Wing G255; ESTC R16663	7,254	15

A MITE Cast into the TREASURY Of the Famous City of London BEING A Brief and Methodical DISCOURSE of the Nature Causes Symptomes Remedies and Preservation from the PLAGUE in this Calamitous Year 1665. Digested into Aphorismes by THEOPHILVS GARENCIERES Doctor in Physick LONDON Printed by Thomas Ratcliffe 1665. To the Right Honourable Sir JOHN LAWRENCE Knight Lord Maior of the City of LONDON With the Right Worshipfull the ALDERMEN his Brethren MY LORD It shall not be said of me that I worship the Rising Sunne for this sheet of Paper cometh to kisse your hands upon your declination And as for ye Right Worshipfull my respect hath been alwayes such to your Honourable Court in general and to all the Worthy Members of it in particular that the truth is I would have done it sooner but that I expected God Almighty would have been pleased to remember his mercy and to stay his avenging hand and that people would have been more carefull of their own preservation but seeing the calamity to continue and the infatuation of the Vulgar to be such still as to suffer themselves to be deluded by every frivolous praescriptions of Physick and perswasion of ignorant men I have here undertaken to rectifie their understanding and to shem them there is means in Nature both for the Cure and praeservation from this Disease and to this purpose I have forced my self to appear upon the Stage and to do that which no body hath yet attempted which is to give some fea short and perspicuous rules whereby every one may know how to cure himself and his family with a small charge My Lord and Right Worshipfull You shall find nothing but Truth in this Paper neither would I have been so impudent as to praefixe so many Honourable Names to a Thing that were illusory and of this consequence The only aim I have in it is the Publick good and that ye may know I am Your most humble and affectionate Servant GARENCIERES A Mite cast into the Treasury of the famous City of LONDON c. Aphorisme I. THE Plague is an acute contagious epidemical and poisonous Feaver accompanied with either a Botch a Carbuncle or Red-spotts like Flea-bites vulgarly called the Tokens II. That it is Acute is seen by the effects for it killeth within foure or five days at the most it is Contagious because its poison is easily imparted and communicated from one to another it is Epidemical because it seazeth upon all kind of people indifferently it is Poisonous because it slighteth all remedies by which other diseases are cured that proceed either from intempery obstruction or putrefaction III. Thoughthe Plague cometh unawares and seaseth upon a man on a sudden yet such is the infinite mercy of God and the providence of Nature that it giveth alwayes warning enough to any one that will be curious to observe it IV. The warnings are either a sudden Head-ache or a Vomiting or a Faintnesse with a chilnesse or a loosenesse V. Each of these Symptomes sheweth what part of the body hath been first infected the Head-ache indicates the Braines the Vomiting the Liver because of its proximity to the Stomach the Faintnesse the Heart and the Loosenesse the Stomach and the Gutts VI. When therefore any one upon a sudden and without evident cause findeth himself seised with either of these foure Symptomes let him conclude he is in infected and fly to remedies without the losse of a moment of time Nèserò sapiant Phryges VII The Plague is one of the easiest diseases in the world to be cured if it be taken within four hours after the first invasion otherwayes and for the most part mortal This is the chief and principal cause of so many mens losse If people would observe this rule I would undertake by the grace of the Almighty and without bragging I believe most men that know me will believe me to cure nineteen of twenty and therefore I say that people perish not so much by the difficulty of the cure as because God Almighty hath taken away their judgment that they should not see nor believe the means he hath appointed for them Quos perdere vult Jupiter priùs dementat VIII The causes why so few escape are these The scarcity of able Physitians willing to attend that disease the Inefficacy of common remedies the want of accommodation as cloaths fire room dyet attendants the wilfullnesse of the patient his poverty his neglecting the first invasion and trifling away the time till it be too late A vapouring Chymist with his drops an ignorant Apothecary with his blistering plasters a wilfull Surgeon an impudent Mountebanke an intruding Gossip and a carelesse Nurse IX Is it not a strange infatuation for people so to flight their lives as to cast them credulously upon the trial of a drop of I know not what of a water of I know not whom and to neglect those remedies which for the space of 1600 or 1700 years have been found grounded upon reason authorised by the best Physitians in all ages and approved certain by a constant experience X. Let every one beware of those that set up bills for the curing of this and other diseases Good wine needs no bush the wonders they promise lay an ambush to your purses and their care of your health is lesse then that of your wealth XI Let no body think that the causes of the Plague proceed from any Intempery in the elementary qualities of humane bodies or from any ordinary putrefaction It is either the immediate will of God who sendeth us that scourge for the punishment of our sins as appeareth in the holy Scripture by the Aegyptians and the Jews or from a peculiar and mediate disposition and configuration of the Starrs and Planets XII He that shall consider that the seasons of the year are not always equal but some summers are cool others hot others moist and so of the rest of the seasons That some years bring forth one kind of vermine others another Some a peculiar murrain to horses others to sheep which will not hurt mankind will not deny but that also some diseases may happen to mankind which will not be hurtful to beasts and that some position of Planets and Starrs may bring Warrs others inundations others pestilences c. which changes are most commonly preceded and forewarned by some extraordinary Meteor as this sad Plague hath been by the last unhappy Comet XIII If the Starres and Planets being in a benigne position do cheer up and preserve the life of all things why then being in a malignant aspect shall they not produce and send forth things that are enemies to our lifes Therefore let it be concluded that from whence comes first the safety and preservation of all things from thence also proceeds their death and destruction XIV As there is a peculiar disposition in the heavens which causeth and sendeth forth the seeds of Pestilence so there must also be a special preparation in Countries