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A16628	Physick for the sicknesse, commonly called the plague With all the particular signes and symptoms, whereof the most are too ignorant. Collected, out of the choycest authors, and confirmed with good experience; for the benefit and preservation of all, both rich and poore. By Stephen Bradwell, of London physician.	Bradwell, Stephen.	1636 (1636)	STC 3536; ESTC S106184	28,626	62

a little Cassia for stronger purgatives will endanger abortion But these ought to be directed by a good Physitian Young children For young Children also with a Violet comfit for a Suppository dipped in sweet sallet oyle or else a little Cassia newly drawne dissolved in a small draught of Chicken-broth or a little Manna in the like broth or in posset-drinke Beware of Bathings Bathings especially in open standing waters within the Region of the Aire infected If Vrine or Menstrua stop Courses stopped repaire speedily to the Physitian for counsaile Fly Venus Venus as farre as you may for in these times she has but an ill name Sweat Sweat comming easily of it selfe and within dores the house being well aired is good so it exceed not But abroad it is dangerous Lastly it is good to keepe open all Issues Issues and running sores because Nature will labour to expell any venom to such a Common-sewer The fourth Point is Exercise and Rest Lazinesse encreaseth superfluous humours and over-violent labour wasteth away the nourishing ones But moderate exercise Exercise how ad ruborem non ad sudorem stirreth up and nourisheth Naturall heate helping Concoction and Evacuation if also it be used in seasonable times and convenient places What. The best Exercise is walking with a little stirring of the armes Where The Time in the morning and the place eyther in a pure ayre abroad or in a purified ayre at home in some large roome where is little or no company by the heate of their bodies and breaths to distemper the Aire But at all times beware of taking cold for great colds and rheumes doe easily putrid Feavors and they as easily prove Pestilent Sleepe and Watching is the fifth point Sleepe eyther immoderate or unseasonable hindereth digestion and causes crudities quels the vitall and dulls the Animall Spirits Watching also over-much dries up and inflames the good Bloud and weakens all the powers of Nature Let your sleepe therefore be seasonable and not superfluous Not upon your dinner unlesse custome commands it and then take it but vapping for halfe an houre or so sitting in a Chaire upright Three houres at least after a light Supper goe to Bed where let five or sixe houres suffice for sleepe Lye conveniently warme the Chamber dores and windowes being shut to exclude the night ayre But beware of sleeping or lying on the ground or grasse for the nearer the earth the more deadly is the Aire And the immediate stroake of the cold vapors rising from the ground is dangerous at all times The Sixt Point of Diet is Passions of the Mind All kindes of Passion Passions if they be vehement doe offer violence to the Spirits yea though they be of the better and more naturall sort As Laughter Laughter if unbridled doth runne even life out of breath and greatly perplexeth the Body in so much as the brest and sides are pained the breath is straitned and sometimes the Soule it selfe is as I may say laughed out of her skin For so it is recorded of CHRYSIPPVS Examples That onely upon the sight of an Asse eating Figges he brake into such an unmeasurable laughter that he fell downe and dyed And XE●XIS that excellent Painter who made a most curious beautifull Picture of the Spartan HELEN upon the sight of a very ill-favoured old woman burst out into such a profuse laughter that he laugh'd himselfe to death Now this is a disease of the Spleene called Risus Sardonius with which I have knowne some of my acquaintance not long agoe grieved But sometimes immoderate Ioy Ioy. lives not to the age of Laughter when it bindes the vitall Spirits so close together that it choakes the heart instantly For so SOPHOCLES the Tragedian receiving a wonderfull applause of the people for the last Tragedy he wrote was so over-joyed at it Examples that he became a Tragedy himselfe and dyed upon it The like is recorded of one RHODIAS DIAGORAS who when he saw his three Sonnes all at one time crowned with victory at the Olympian games ranne to meet them And while hee embraced them in his armes and they planted theyr Garlands on his head hee was so overcome with joy that he turned theyr Ensignes of victory into the penons of his Funerall Sorrow Sorrow on the other side afflicts the Heart disturbes the Faculties melts the Braine vitiates the humours and so weakens all the principall parts yea sometimes sinkes the Body into the grave Examples As ADRASTVS King of the Argives beeing told of the death of his Sonne was taken with so violent a Sorrow that he fell downe and dyed immediatly And so IULIA the Daughter of Iulius Caesar and wife to POMPEY when shee heard the tydings of her Husbands death made that houre the last witnesse that she had liv'd only to heare it Anger Anger is also so furious a Passion that it violently disturbes the Spirits and Faculties as appeares by the shaking and tossing of the Body too and fro the fierie sparkling of the Eyes the colour comming and going now red now pale so that all the humours appeare to be enflamed especially Choller and the Spirits hurried this way and that way sometimes thrust outward and presently halled in againe By which violent motions an unnaturall heat in the Spirits and corruption in the humours are ingendered Hereupon many times follow Burning Feavors Palsies violent Bleedings losse of Speech and sometimes Death it selfe Examples NERVA the Emperour being highly displeased with one REOVLVS fell into such a fury against him that he was stricken therewith into a Feavor whereof he dyed within a few dayes after WENCESLAVS King of Bohemia in a rage conceived against his Cup-bearer would needs kill him presently with his owne hand but his endeavour was his owne deaths man striking him with a Pa●sey that shooke him shortly after into ashes VALENTINIANVS the Emperour in a fierce fury would needs destroy the whole Country of Sarmatia but his unruly rage brake a veyne within him and his owne life-bloud ended his bloudy designe In the yeare of our Lord 1523. A poore old man in the North part of Devonshire dwelling in a part of a little Village called Little Podderidge came to a Worthy Knights house Sir THOMAS MONKE by name dwelling in the same Parish which was called St. Merton in whose house I at that time was And the old man standing at the Buttery hatch to receive some Beere because the Buttery mayd did not presently fill his Tankerd at his call he fell into such a fury against her that with the very passion hee presently fell downe was taken up for dead was with much a doe by me recovered to life and sence but never spake againe and dyed within two dayes after Feare Feare likewise gathers the heat and Spirits to the heart and dissolves the Brayne making the moysture thereof shed and slide downe into the

but sometimes of a blewish or leaden colour but then it is apt to turne to a Carbuncle and when it runneth affords filthy matter of the like complexion Round about the Blister there is a red fierie circle yet nothing so fiery as that of the Carbuncle the whole taking up the breadth of a groat sixe pence or nine-pence I have seen the breadth of a large shilling but very rarely These will rise in any part of the Body or limbes sometimes one alone sometimes two or three but never many When the matter is runne out the hoven skin falls and dryes up to a crusty scab and so falls off These shew that Nature is strong to expell the venom speedily and that the humors infected are not superaboundant For many that have these are not sicke at all and the most recover with good looking to The Carbuncle The Carbuncle is a little venemous pustle with a broad compasse of a deepe rednesse about it wonderfull angry and burning like a fire-coale thence comes his name Carbunculus It rises like a little Blyster producing an ash-coloured or else a blackish crust Sometimes it rises in many pustles like burnt blysters on the outer skin which being broken and the matter runne out the like crusty escar growes over it till it fall off It appeares in any ●●rt of the Body or Limbs many times on the Breast sometimes in the face I have seene one on the very tip of the nose With it goes alway these evill companions Itching Inflamation and Irrosion for it is so full of burning poyson that it consumes the flesh and will in a short time if it be not well looked to eate so deepe and large a hole as if the flesh were hollowed with a hot iron It ariseth from the same cause with the Botch but the Bloud is more hot blacke thicke and faeculent proceeding for burnt Choler or adust Melancholly The Spots otherwise called Gods Tokens The Tokens are commonly of the bignesse of a flea-bitten spot sometimes much bigger Their colour is according to the praedominancie of the humor in the body namely Red or reddish if Choler Pale-blew or Darke-blew if Flegme and Leaden or Blackish if Melancholy abound But they have ever a circle about them The Red ones a purplish-circle and the others a redish circle They appeare most commonly on the the breast and backe and sometimes on the neck armes and thighes On the Breast and Back because the vitall Spirits strive to breath out the venom the nearest way In some bodyes there will be very many in some but one or two or very few according to the quantity of the venom and the strength of the Spirits to drive them out They usually shew themselves on the 3. 4. 5. or 7. day Sometimes not till death the venom yet tyrannizing over the dead carkas Somtimes they appeare together with the sores but for the most part without The cause is the venemous matter condensed and hardened in the act of penetrating the the pores of the skin if they be skilfull dissected in the dead body you may finde some halfe way deep into the flesh some in muskles of the Brest have bin followed with the incision knife even to the rib bones The reason why they are thus congealed is the thicknes of the venemous matter and the coldnesse of it for it is the most Phlegmaticke part of the bloud yet mixed also with the other humors according to the colors They appeare in dead bodies most because Nature fainting in her labor to thrust out the venom through the skin lifes heat going out the privation therof and the nearnesse of the outward aire do congeale thē presently because many times at the last gasp nature gives the stoutest struggle it comes to passe they are not so far thrust forth as to appeare til death All these Symptomes must be looked to very diligently and skilfully As for the Sores there are many good and known medicines and hands skilful enough in Chyrurgical way And I understād the Colledge of Physitians have a Booke now comming forth full of good Medicines Whether the Tokēs bring alwayes certain Death as is believ'd Therefore I will here desist But me thinkes one puls mee by the sleeve and askes me what I meane to say that all these Symptoms must be looked to Doe I meane the Tokens for they were the last of them Yes even the Tokens Mr. IOHN BANISTER my Grandfather in a Manuscript of his of the Plague affirmeth that he recovered some that had the best colored of them and those but few also And I have often heard my Father who was an honest true tongu'd man and a skilfull full Physitian say that in the yeare 1593. my Mother being then visited with this sicknesse had besides a Carbuncle under the tip of her left left eare two Spots on her breast And shee was recovered and lived till the yeare 1629. yet the spots appeared together with the Carbuncle which is accounted a prognosticke to have no hope of curing the soare or caring for the life of the Patient To this let mee joyne an experience of mine owne in the last dreadfull Visitation Anno 1625. My selfe did in Golding-lane recover a woman that was sicke of the Plague in Childe-bed and that very case alone is rarely cured who besides other Symptomes as her suddaine taking faintings and Pestilent Feavor had two Spots on her breast of a reddish colour with purple circles I discouraged not those about her because I meant to try what might by Gods assistance be done the Childe dyed but she recovered and is alive at this day Now if any man shall say these last were spots of a Malignant Feaver onely I answer they were not Purple but Red ones and circled with purple Circles so are not the faint Spots But if my skill in these Spots shall yet bee doubted Know that this was when there dyed betwixt Foure and five Thousand of the Plague that weeke And I will beleeve no man that shall tell mee that any Malignant Feavor must not needs turne to the Plague it selfe within the ayre of London at that time Thus much for the Signes of the Pestilence in them that Live There remaine also some few other Signes besides these Other signes of the dead of the Plague● by which you may know a Body to be dead of the Plague though neyther Soare nor Token appeare HEURNIUS sayes Heurnius de Peste they are knowne from others that dye of the Plague by these Markes The Nose lookes blew sometimes blackish blew as if it had beene beaten or bruised The like Colour is in the Eares and Nailes And their Bodies are ever worse coloured then other dead bodyes bee But adde to this one Signe more approved by Experience and standing with good reason viz. That whereas other dead Bodies must bee layed out straight while they are warme or else when they are cold they will