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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A37471	Food and physick for every householder & his family during the time of the plague very useful, both for the free and the infected, and necessary for all persons in what condition or quality soever : together with several prayers and meditations before, in, and after infection, very needful in all infectious and contagious times, and fit as well for the country as the city / published by T.D. for the publick good.	T. D.	1665 (1665)	Wing D88; ESTC R33433	7,540	24

Charcole untill the shell wax yellow then beat shell and all together in a Morter with half a spoonful of Mustard-Seed Now so soon as any suspition is had of Infection dissolve the weight of a French Crown in ten spoonfulls of Posset-Ale drink it luke-warm and sweat upon it in your naked Bed Drink for ordinary Dyet So near as you can let the Patients ordinary Drink be good small Ale of eight dayes old For Vomiting Vomiting is better than Bleeding in this Case and therefore provoke to Vomit so near as you can To provoke Vomit Take three Leaves of Estrabecca stamp it drink it in Rhenish VVine Ale or Posset-Ale For Purging If the Party be full of gross Humours let him blood immediately upon the right Arm on the Liver Vein or in the Median Vein in the same Arm so as no Sore appear the first Day A very wholesome Water to be Distilled Steep Sorrel in Vinegar four and twenty hours then take it out and dry it with a Linnen Cloth then Still it in a Limbeck drink four spoonfulls with a little Sugar walk upon it till you sweat if you may if not keep your Bed and sweat upon it Use this before Supper on any Evening If the Patient happen to be troubled with any Swellings Botches Carbuncles let him sweat moderately now and then Outward Medicines to Ripen the Sore Take the Root of a White Lilly roast it in a good handful of Sorrel stamp it and apply it thereto very hot let it lye four and twenty hours and it will break the Sore Another Take a small quantity of Leaven a handful of Mallows a little quantity of Scabios cut a white Onion into pieces with half a Dozen Heads of Garlick boyl these together in running Water make a Poultess of it and then lay it hot to the Sore Another Take a hot Loaf new taken forth of the Oven apply it to the Sore and it will doubtless break the same but afterward bury the same Loaf deep enough in the Ground for fear of any Infection for if either Dogg ' or any other thing do feed thereon it will infect a great many For Ayring Apparel Let the Apparel of the Diseased Persons be well and often washed be it Linnen or Woollen or let it be ayred in the Sun or over Panns of Fire or over a Chaffingdish of Coals and fume the same with Frankincense Juniper or dryed Rosemary To Preserve from the Infection of the Plague Take Garlick and peel it and mince it small put it into new Milk and eat it fasting To take the Infection from a House Infected Take large Onions peel them and lay three or four of them upon the Ground let them lye ten Dayes and those peeled Onions will gather all the Infection into them that is in one of those Rooms But bury those Onions afterward deep in the Ground Against the new Burning Feaver If the Parient be in great heat as most commonly they will take of fair running Water a pretty quantity put it on a Chaffingdish of Coals then put thereinto a good quantity of Saunders beaten to Powder and let it boyl half an hour between two Dishes that done put a couple of soft Linnen Clothes into a Dish wet the Cloths well in Water and Saunders and apply the same as hot as you can suffer it to your Belly To procure Sleep to the Sick Persons that are Diseased either with the Plague or the hot Feaver Take of Womans Breast-Milk a good quantity put thereunto the like quantity of Aqua-Vitae stir them well together and moysten therewith the Temples of the Patient and his Nostrills lay it on with some Feather or some fine thin Ragg Butter-Milk in this Contagious Time is generally wholesome to be eaten and is a good Preservative against either the Plague or the Pestilent Feaver A PRAYER Against the PLAGVE OMnipotent God and most merciful Father bow down thine Ear to our Requests and let thy gracious Eye look upon the Miseries of thy People A long time have the Vials of thy Wrath been held open and have powred thy Divine Vengeance on our sinful heads O Lord we confess that Sodom and Gomorrah were never so wicked as we have been and are still The Jewes were never so hard-hearted towards thee our God as we are who hourly Crucifie thy Son Jesus Christ in our vile Bodies Yet behold we cry to thee for Mercy we repent what is past and are contrite and sorry that we have been stubborn Children to a Father so mild and ready to pardon Stay therefore thine Arm and let not the Arrow of Death strike our Young Men into their Graves nor our Old Men to the Earth Call home thy Angells of Wrath whom thou hast sent forth and let no more of thy People perish under the heavy Strokes of This Dreadful Plague which is now a Dweller amongst us Grant this our Request and all other whatsoever needful to Soul or Body for his sake in whose Name thou deniest nothing Amen A PRAYER For those that are not Visited OH most Mighty and Merciful Lord God in whose hands are health and sickness who at thy pleasure canst kill and comfort I do confess that my Sins call louder for Justice than I can cry for Mercy and I deserve all Plagues and Punishments in this Life and the Plague of Plagues in the Life to come Damnation both of Body and Soul But O Lord be thou more merciful than I can be sinful and in Jesus Christ be reconciled unto me and purge me and cleanse me from all my sins And I beseech thee Oh heavenly Father at whose Commandement the Angells passed over the Houses of the Israelites when it struck the Egyptians if it be thy blessed will that this present Sickness may pass over me and my Family We do confess O Lord that I and others have deserved the Plagues of Egypt but O Lord howsoever keep us from the greatest Plague which is hardness of heart and if it be thy pleasure withhold thy heavy hand from us Do not correct us in thine anger nor yet chastise us in thy heavy displeasure but in thy mercy release us And if it be good unto thee that I and others should taste of this birter Cup strengthen our Faith increase our Hope augment our Patience that so we may rest in thy Peace rise in thy Power and remain in thy Glory and that for Christ Jesus sake in whose Name we further call upon thee saying Our Father which art in Heaven c. A PRAYER For those that are Visited OH Lord God thou best Physician both of our Souls and Bodies who canst bring to the Grave and pull back again whom thou pleasest which wert moved at the Prayers of Moses for others of Ezekiah for himself O Lord hear me for others others for me and all of us for thy Son and look with the Eye of mercy upon me whom it hath pleased thee at this time to visit with the