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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
fire_n	cold_a	dry_a	moist_a	2,821	5	10.4096	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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-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