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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

2. sayes that Socrates by temp●rate and discreet 〈◊〉 lived in Athens divers Plague-times yet was never touched with it 〈…〉 Now what this Dyet Preservative is I will b i●fly shew you Dyet consists of Sixe Points viz. Ayre Meate and Drinke Repletion and Evacuation Exercise and Rest Sleepe and Wa●ching Passions of the Minde They are composed also in these two Verses Aër Esca Quies Repletio Gaudia Somnus Haec moderata juvant immoderata nocent These indeed are the sixe Strings of Apollo's Viall wherein consisteth the whole harmonie of health If these be in tune the body is sound But any of th●se too high wrested or too much slackned that is immoderately used makes a discord in nature and puts the whole body out of tune For Ayre first 〈◊〉 Ayre 〈…〉 Ayre is that which we draw in with our breath continually and wee cannot live without it one minute for it is the food of our Spirits and therefore we had need take heed that the ayre we draw be pure and wholsome The whol● streame of Opinion runnes upon a cold and dry Aire so commending the North and East windes as most wholsome What most unwholsom and condemning the Hot and Moist Aire engendred by the South and West windes as the fittest matter for infection because most apt to putrefaction So Hippocrates in the 2d. of his Epidem saith that in Cranon a Citie of Thessalie there arose putrid Vlcers Pustuls and Carbuncles through the hot and moyst constitution of the ayre And Galen in 1. de Temperam c. 4. affirmeth that the hot and moyst constitution of the ayre doth most of all breed pestilent diseases And from these mouthes a multitude of late Writers have learnt to speake the same thing Yet we know that the hot and dry weather also may cause a contagious ayre So saith Avenzoar in his 3. Booke 3. Tract and 1. chap. And Titus Livius in lib. 1. decad 4. recordeth that Rome was infected with the Plague by a Hot and Dry distemper of the Aire Wee also may remember that the Summer 1624 was an extreame dry and parching Summer and we cannot forget that this last Summer was not much unlike like it The Contagion indeed this yeare was begotten beyond Sea and was rock'd hither in sicke bodyes but our Ayre I feare will prove a Nurse though not a Mother to it This Spring answering to the sore-past Summer in heate and drouth Now to avoyde the mischiefes of unwholsome ayre Hippocrates the Prince of Physitians H w we may guard us frō unwholsome Aires in his Booke de Natura humana gives this counsell Providendum est ut quàm paucissimus aëris influxus corpus ingrediatur ut ille ipse quam peregrinus existat Regionum etiam locos in quibus morbus consistat quantum ejus fieri potest permutare oportet Others advise in threee words Citò Longè Tardè which Iordanus calls an Antidote made of 3. adverbs thus versifying upon them Haec tria tabificam pellunt adverbia Pestem Mox Longè Tardè Cede recede redi But I will not teach to flee for too many with Dedalus put on wings the last great visitation that with Icarus dropt downe by the way Onely my counsell is this The Authors counsaile for without doores Let every one keepe himselfe as priuate as he may Shun throngs of people and all wet close and stinking places Walke not abroad before nor after Sunne Keep moderation between heat and cold in all things yet rather encline to heate a little because of drying up superfluous moystures Let the streets bee kept cleane washing the channels every morning and evening and sweeping away all durt leaves stalkes and rootes of hearbes and offals leaving no dunghils nor other noysome matter in the streets But the water is most to be vsed in hot and dry the fire in hot and moyst weather chiefly Also in the evenings it is good to purifie the ayre with Bonefires but especially with Fire-workes or rather with discharging of peeces for Gunpowder is exceeding drying by reason of the Salt peeter and Sulphur with which it is made and by the crackes that it gives the Ayre is forcibly shaken and attenuated and so opened to let in that purification which is immediately made by the fire that goes along with it This way is commended by Levinus Lemnius de Ocultis Naturae Mirac lib. 2. cap. 10. Also by Crato in consilio 275 By Raymundus Mindererus lib. de Pestilentia cap. 20. and all the late Writers Within doores observe For within doores that little houses must not be pestered with many Lodgers for it is best for those that are able to have shift of Beds and Chambers to lie in that the ayre in them may be kept free and sweet Keepe every roome daily very cleane leaving no fluts corners Let not Water stand so long in any vessell as to putrifie which in hot weather it will soone doe Make Fires every day in everie roome in quantitie according to the largenesse of the roome and the temperature of the weather Perfume them and all the houshold-stuffe in cold and moist weather with Frankinsense Storax Benjamin Pitch Rosin Lignum alöes Lignum Rhodium Iuniper-wood or the Berries In hot and drie weather with rose-Rose-water on a hot Fire-shovell or some such like coole fume in a perfuming-pot Strew the Windowes and ledges with Rew Wormwood Lavender Marjoram Penyriall Costmary and such like in cold weather but in hot with Primroses Violets Rose-leaves Borrage and such cooling scents For Garments Garments best guarding the vitall parts avoide as much as may bee all leather woollen and furres also velvets plush and shagge Choose such as may be watered as chamlets grograms paropas philip and chenyes and such like for their gumminesse excludeth the infectious aire best Have shift and shift often and still as cloathes are left off perfume them well Beware of buying old clothes Bedding or such like stuffe for if they have beene used by the infected they are verie dangerous as I told you before in the authoritie of a furr'd Gowne and Feather-beds What to hold in the mouth Carrie in your mouth a peece of Citron-pill or for want of that of Lemon pill a Clove or a peece of Tormentill Root Or if any will resort to me in Golding lane I will soone provide for them Lozenges to hold in their mouth sit for their constitution and such as I have had good experience of the last great Plague time What to 〈…〉 Carry in your hand a Lemon stucke with cloves sweet Marjoram Lavender Balme Rew or Wormwood as the constitution of your braine shall require For beleeve by my experience that many did enflame their braines and so fell into the Sicknesse they shunned in the last great Contragion by smelling to and carrying things in their mouthes too hot for their complexion Camphor Camphor also though it be accounted an excellent coole fume

Dein Accipè Conservae buglossi borraginis ana drach iij. cum aquali quantitate Syr. ê Limonibus rosis siccis Fiat Conditū s a. For young Children For young Children there is nothing better or fitter then Bole Armoniack or Terra Lemnia with a little Tormentill roote or Citron pills made into fine Powder and mixed with their meates butter and broths for their breakfasts And because they are not much to be tampered with by internall medicines annoint the region of their heart with oyle of Hypericon every morning and evening or with oleo Scorpionium or oleo corcino or else let them commonly weare next their skin over their heart such a Quilt as this Take of red Roses 2. drams red saunders red corrall spodium of each one dram Zedoarie lignum aloes cynnamon cloves citron pill saffron of each halfe a dram Sew it up in a peece of red Sarcenet or Calico moysten it with a little Rose-vineger so heat it and apply it warme And when it waxeth dry moystit and heate it so againe And take this note Note by the way When you suspect a Childe to have the wormes in a contagious time use not Wormseed nor those common trifles but order him as in danger of Infection for that disease comming of so much putrefaction as it does is apt to receive contagion as tinder to take fire Give it therefore ten or twenty graines of this Powder following Take of Harts-horne one dram citron pill rootes of Angelica and Tormentill Rheubarb and Coralline of each halfe a dram Make all into a fine powder and give the aforesaid quantity in a little Carduus water sweetned with some sugar After the taking of any of these Antidotes Breakfasts abstaine from all meat and drinke for two or three houres And then eate a piece of Bread and butter strewed with a little grated Nutmeg Or Bread and Sallet-oyle spiced with the powder of Tormentill rootes Or a piece of Bread sopped in White-wine allayed with a little Vineger Let your Dinner be about high noone Dinner and Supper and then eat not of above two or three several dishes Your Supper at five or sixe a clocke in the evening and then let one dish suffice For it is a pretty saying and worth the noting In the Morning a little is enough at Noone enough is but a little but at Night a little may be too much Bed time Goe not to bed till three or foure houres after Supper lest sleeping upon a full stomacke you hinder digestion And so I bid good night to the second Point of Dyet The third Point is Repletion and Evacuation Repletion Evacuatiō When you arise in the morning rub your sides armes thighes and legs downward gently your clothes being on combe your head and rub it Hake spit and blow your nose to evacuate the excrements of your head and stomacke Then assay to make water and to goe to stoole and labor to bring your body to this dayly custome For The body ought especially to bee kept free from superfluities saith Galen lib. 1. de Differ Feb. cap. 4. Therefore if you be costive use some supposistory or Clyster and suffer not two whole dayes to passe without such evacuation It is necessary that every one that hath so much understanding doe learne to know whether he be Phlethorick For Phlethoricke people or Cacochymick If Phlethorick that is full of bloud as those that live in high feeding it will appeare by his high colour full veynes pulse greater and more frequent then it used ordinarily to be pursinesse heavinesse and dulnesse of body and such like signes If you bee costive take a common Clyster first then be let bloud according to the appointment of some skilfull Physitian and so ordered afterwards according to Art If Cacochymick For Cacochymick that is full of grosse and corrupted humors which will appeare by the palenesse and ill colour of the face defective strength and the like He must be well purged which none but a Physitian can safely prescribe and that upon examination of his Body and Vrine But as a generall Generall purgings for all sorts rule all doe appoint some purging medicine twice or thrice in a weeke to keepe the Body free from the increase of superfluous humors To this purpose the Pills of RUFFUS which are common in every Shop are very apt and good Or if you please use these of mine whereof I had happy experience in the last great Visitation Rs. Aloës Rosatae unc 1. Bradwels Pilles Rhabarbari Croci ana drach 3. Myrrhae drach 6. Santali citrini drach 1. Ambari grisei scrup 1. Cum syrupi de succo citri q. s fiat s a. Massa Philularum Make Pils of 8. 10. or 12. graines a piece and take 2 or 3. at a time either at bed time or after the first sleep you may take them in Syrup of Roses or conserve of Violets or if you will in the yolke of a reare egge And it is good to drink after them when you rise in the morning in cold weather a little draught of white Wine mixed with Balme-water In hot weather white-Wine and Succorie-water with a drop or two of oyle of Vitrioll in it But those that cannot take Pills may have this Syrup made for them which for his excellent vertue in this case is called Syrupus Divinus the Diuine Syrup Syrupus Divinus Sancti Ambrosii Rs. Cort. citri rad cappar berber santal rub citrin spodii ana drach 1. Carryophyll borrag buglossi mellissae cichorei ana unc 1. Acetosae Hepaticae marrubii ana unc ss Thymi Epithymi Scariolae Rhabarb fol. senae rad polypodii ana drach 1. Succorum absynthii fumariae ebuli Plantagenis Myrobalanorum Chebul citrin ana drach 6. Cum sacchari li. 2. ss fiat Syrupus s a. Cum aceti succi cydoniorum q. s reddatur dulcè acidus Take two or three spoonefuls of this more or lesse as it workes But keepe very warme for it causeth sweat as wel as seidge In a Manuscript of my Grandfather BANISTERS I finde this called St. AMBROSE his Syrup The same a little altered is in RENODAEVS his Disponsatorie and hee hath added two drams of Diagredium Let men of judgment doe as they please I like it best as I have set it downe RENODAEUS gives it this Title not acknowledging any Author Syrupus qui reddit corpus mundum à superfluitatibus per consequens cor cerebrum hepar et omnia alia membrae confortat Which commendations agrees with my Title for it is worthy of all commendations That Morning that you take your Purging Medicine you must forbeare your other Antidote Women with childe What Purge for women with Childe must be kept solluble onely with mild Suppositories and gentle Glysters wherein a little new drawne Cassia is to be used Or else a milde Potion made with some Pectorall Decoction and