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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

infect the lungs of others But the Plague infects by all these waye● and such sicke bodies infect the outward Aire and that Aire again infects other Bodies For there is a Seminarie Tincture full of a venemous quality that being very thin and spirituous mixeth it selfe with the Aire and piercing the pores of the Body entreth with the same Aire and mixeth it selfe with the Humors and spirits of the same Body also For proofe of this we see by daily experience that Garments Coffers nay walls of Chambers will a long time retaine any strong sent wherwith they have beene fumed Now the Sent is meerly a Qualitie and his substance is the Aire which is also the Vehiculum wherein it is seated and conveighed So does the Pestilent Infection take hold though not sensibly for the strongest Poysons have little taste or smell yet certainly as experience testifies for Garments and Houshold-stuffe have beene infected and have infected others As Fracastorius tels of a Furred-Gowne that was the death of 25. Men in Verona Anno 1511. who one after another wore it thinking still they had ayred it sufficiently And if Alexander Benedictus may be beleeved Feather-beds will keepe the Contagion seaven yeares Other experiences we have also of live Poultry which being applyed to the soares are taken away dead having not been wounded crushed nor hurt any whit at all And many that have beene Infected have plainly perceived where and of whom they tooke it Object But say some then why is not one infected as well as another I have eaten of the same dish dru● in the same cup and lyen in the same bed with such sicke ones and that while their Soares were running yet never had so much as my finger aking after it Answ To this I answer there may be Two speciall Causes for this The first and Principall Cause is the Protection of the Almighty which preserves some as miraculously as his Iustice strikes others Thus through his Mercy he often preserves those that with faithfull and conscionable care doe Christian offices about the Sicke being warrantably called thereto and not thrusting themselves eyther presumptuously or rashly into the businesse without a just and reason-rendring Cause For GOD has given his Angels charge over vs to keepe vs in all our wayes as the Psalmist sings And secondly every pestilent Contagion is not of the same nature nor hath equall conformity with every Constitution Age or manner of Living For some Contagion is apt to infect onely the Sanguin complexion some the Cholericke some the Phlegmaticke onely Some Children some Youths some those of Ripe age some Antient people some the Rich and other the poore onely And where the Seminarie Tincture hath no Analogie there is none or verie flight Infection And first those are most apt to be Infected Who are most apt to be Infected that have thin Bodyes and open pores and whose hearts are so hot that they need much attraction of Aire to coole them Also they whose Veynes and Vessels are full of grosse humors and corrupt juyces the venemous matter being thicke and therefore unapt to breath through the pores their putrefaction is increased by the inward heat and so driven to malignitie and thence onward to a Pestilent qualitie Hence those bodies that are moist and full of Phlegmaticke humors whose veines are straight and therefore apter to intercept then entertaine those well well concocted juyces that would make the purest Bloud and the thicknesse of whose skin denies the transpiration of excrements these are easily poluted and infected And such are Women especially women with childe for their bodies are full of excrementitious humors and much heat withall which is as oile and flame put together Also Virgins that are ripe for marriage are apt to receive infection and being once stricken seldome or never escape without great meanes Quia spirit●osum semen in motu cùm sit facilò succenditur vel quia intus detentum facilè corrumpitur in veneni perniciem abit Mindererus de Pestilen c. 10. Also young Children in regard of their soft tender and moist bodies and likewise because they feed on moister meats and feed with more appetite then judgment Likewise the more Pure and delicace Complexions whose bloud is finer and thinner then others is so much the more apt to receive mutation and the Contagion insinuates it selfe into all the humors But first and most easily into Bloud Choler next more slowly into Phlegme and most rarely into Melancholy Those that are fearefull likewise as I shall prove anon when I treat of Passions of the Minde Those that are very Costive or have their water-stop'd the noysome vapours that are by these excrements engendred make the body apt to infection And such as in former times have had customary evacuations by sweat Haemerrhoids Vomitings Menstrua Fontanels or other like vents for noxious humours and have them now stopped Those that Fast too long their bodyes being emptie receive more ayre in then they let out and their spirits being weakned for want of due nourishment they have lesse strength to resist the contagion On the other side Gluttons and Drunkards let them argue what they will for the filling of the veynes as they use to say to keepe out the evill ayre can never be free from crudities and distemper'd bloud which easily takes infection As Hippocrates testifies when he sayes Corpora impura quo magis aluntur eò magis laeduntur Impure bodyes the more they are nourished the more they are endangered Poore people by reason of their great want living sluttishly and feeding nastily and unwholsomly on any food they can with least cost purchase have corrupted bodyes and of all others are therefore more subject to this Sicknesse And yet the Rich are also as subject in too much pampering dyet bringing themselves thereby to an Athleticke habit which Hippocrates in the third Aphorisme of his first hooke proves to be very dangerous at all times Furthermore nearenesse of Bloud or Kinred by Sympathy of nature is another aptnesse And lastly those that are continually conversant with the sicke are in greatest danger though many escape through Gods mercifull protection But Old folkes whose bodyes are cold and dry Who are least subject to bee Infected Confident Spirits whose very courage is an Antidote if they keepe their bodyes cleane by a regular course of life And those that have the Gout in whom the nobler parts of the body doe expell the noxious humors to the ignobler Milch-Nurses because their Children sucke the evill juyces from them with their milke These are in the way likely to escape but if the Nurse be infected the childe cannot recover it Also those that have Fontanels or any other kinde of Issue as Vlcers Haemerrhoids or plenty of other evacuations whereby the hurtfull humors are dreyned away And lastly those that keepe themselves private using good Antidotes and meanes praeservative such are least subject to Infection Diogenes Laertius lib