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A54963 The plagues approved physitian Shewing the naturall causes of the infection of the ayre, and of the plague. With divers observations to bee used, preserving from the plague, and signes to know the infected therewith. Also many true and approved medicines for the perfect cure thereof. Chiefely, a godly and penitent prayer unto almighty God, for our preservation, and deliverance therefrom. 1665 (1665) Wing P2337; ESTC R220438 7,678 21

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vomit straiteway and when the body and stomacke is empty then take some medicine that can resist poyson as Methrydate or Triacle When the patient hath taken some medicines that wil expel the venome lay him in a warmed bed being made with soft sheets and well covered with cloathes that there he may sweat well for the space of foure or 5. houres or more according to his strength But if by this meanes you can scarsely provoke him to sweate you may use some other meanes as by the heating of tiles and laying them hote to the feete of the patient or with stone bottles filled with hot water and being close stopt with corke that the water spill not and so put into the bed to the sick they will by their heat provoke him readily to sweat And all the time the sicke doth sweate you must take heed that hee neither sleepe eate nor drinke And after hee hath sweat you must wipe diligently off the sweat with very cleane and fine linnen clothes Then afterward let the sicke rise from his bed if he either will or can But let him not come into the open ayre but eschew it as much as may bee Also let the Ayre of the Chamber in the which the sicke doth lie be corrected and amended and purified with odoriferous things and with sweete smelling perfumes such as are before declared Lastly the principall and whole body being clensed by bleeding or cupping and sweating the patient must be very wary and measurable in his diet for in the Fever Acute which is accidentall to this sicknesse it is good to eate no flesh but little chickins sod with fresh water but it is best to give unto him the broath of a chicken two or three houres after he hath sweat and often according to his strength for the sicke and weake must be norished and refreshed by little and little If the broath have in it the juice of lemons Oranges veriuice or viniger it is the better ¶ Preservatiues against the Plague and Pestilence TAke Wormewood and Rew of each a little and lay them in a little Vineger then take a spunge and wet it therein and this you may carry about you in a box or any thing else to smell thereon and this will preserve you from the infected Another ALso take Angelica roote and hold in your mouth for it is excellent good to keepe your body that no corrupted ayre come therein Likewise Sytron pilles is very good to hold in your mouth or Cloves Another IT is good to keepe the head and stomack cleane purged and not to overlay it with eating and drinking nor to eate grose meats but to abstaine from all manner of slimie and grose meates and to purge your selfe as oft as you can with some gentle purge as Cassia pilles or such like Another excellent Preservative TAke a Figge or a Walnut and in a morning fasting take a little Rew and a corne of bay salt and eate them together and this will preserve you that you neeed not feare the infection Another preservative by purging the Blood TAke in you pottage Buglase Burrige Suckory Lettyse and such like hearbs It shall be also very good at your meate to eate the inside of a Cytteron with a little sugar at morning at noone and at night when you goe to bed and it would bee very good to wash your hands and to b●●●e your temples and your pulses with Viniger Rosset and it would bee good to perfume your houses with Vineger and Rew upon a tile-stone being heated in the fire it is very good to hold your head over it it is excellent good to keepe your body that no infected ayre enter therein A prooved remedy for the Plague TAke an Oinon and cut him overthwart or asunder then make a little hole in each peece the which ye shall fill with fine Treakle and set the peeces together againe then wrap them in a wet linnen cloth putting it as you would a warden and so roaste him in the embers seeing it be covered with embers and when it is rosted enough straine out all the juice thereof and give the patient a spoonefull thereof to drinke and it will heale him by the grace of God Take Sorrell and lay it in steepe in Vineger a day and then still it and when the patient feeleth himselfe ill give him a draught thereof and if hee brooke it two or three houres after give him more thereof to drink and by the grace of God he shall be healed Another for those that feele themselues Infected TAke Cardus Benedictus the leafe and dry it then beate it to powder and give the patient to drinke of it and then let him sweate and it will heale him by the grace of God A Preservative TAke London Treakle which you shall have at divers Apoticaries shopps in London which doe make it themselves and in a morning fasting Take as much thereof as a hazell-nut and drinke a little after it and this will keepe your bodie that no venomed ayre enter therein and if you feele your selfe ill at any time take a little thereof and sweat upon it and this will helpe you Also it is good to take some when you go to bed-ward at evening and in the morning fasting You may have it for two pence the ounce and it is excellent good to have it alwayes in a readinesse Approved If there doe a botch appeare TAke a Pigeon and plucke the feathers off her taile very bare and set her taile to the sore and shee will draw out the venome till shee die then take another and set too likewise continving so till all the venome be drawne out which you shall see by the Pigeons for they will die with the venome as long as there is any in it also a chicken or a henne is very good FINIS ¶ A Godly PRAYER to be used in the time of any common Plague or Sicknesse IOEL 2. Rent your hearts and not your garments and turne to the LORD your GOD because He is gentle and mercifull He is patient and of much mercy and such a one that is sorry for your afflictions O Almighty God wee doe confesse and acknowledge that by many and divers sinnes wee have often and grievously offended thee and therefore deserve most heavy Plagues and punishments Wee have all declined and gone out of the way like vile wretches wee have fallen from thy Word and are become vnprofitable servants wee nor our fore-fathers have not kept thy Commandements and Ordinances Notwithstanding which transgressions wee beseech the with a contrite and broken heart of thine infinite mercie for IESVS Christes sake thine onely beloved Sonne not to punish us according to our offences but to have mercy vpon vs according to thy great goodnesse and long sufferance O Lord wee are not unmindfull of the many and great deliverances from time to time even from the jawes of death and destruction for which above all Nations wee are bound to offer our selues our soules and bodies which thou hast delivered to be a living sacrifice unto thee alwaies praysing and magnifying thy mercies in the middest of the Congregation And seeing O Lord that our sinnes have provoked thee dayly to deliver us up to our selves to the noysome pestilence to all plagues and punishments yet wee know that there is mercy with thee that thou mayest be feared in which confidence wee flie unto thee the true Physitian of soule and body beseeching thee for thy Sons sake to blesse all means which thou in mercy hast ordained for the preservation and cure of soule or body Finally heavenly Father keepe us in the faith of thy beloved Son Iesus Christ who is the everlasting perpetuall and dayly reconciliation the pure and perfit oblation and the sweet and accepted sacrifice for our sinnes Amen FINIS