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A69358 Orders, thought meete by her Maiestie, and her priuie Councell, to be executed throughout the counties of this realme, in such townes, villages, and other places, as are, or may be hereafter infected with the plague, for the stay of further increase of the same Also, an aduise set downe vpon her Maiesties expresse commaundement, by the best learned in physicke within this realme, contayning sundry good rules and easie medicines, without charge to the meaner sort of people, aswell for the preseruation of her good subiects from the plague before infection, as for the curing and ordering of them after they shalbe infected. England and Wales. Sovereign (1558-1603 : Elizabeth I); Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 1533-1603.; England and Wales. Privy Council. 1578 (1578) STC 9187.9; ESTC S115132 11,035 28

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cast the same on a Chafindish and receiue the fume or smoke therof ▪ Some aduise to be added Lauender or Sage Also to make fires rather in Pannes to remoue about the Chamber then in Chimneis shall better correct the aire of the Houses Take a quantitie of Vineger very strong and put to it some small quantitie of Rosewater tenne branches of Rosemarie put them all into a basen then take fiue or sixe Flintstones heated in the fire till they be burning hotte cast them into the same Vineger so let the fumes be receiued from place to place of your house Perfuming of Apparel SVch apparel as you shal commonly weare let it be very cleane and perfume it often eyther with some red Saūders burned or with Iuniper And if any shal happen to be with them that are visited let such persons as soone as they shal come home shift themselues aire their other clothes in open aire for a time Preseruation by way of defence in open aire and common assemblies to be vsed outwardly IT is good in going abroade into the open aire in the streetes to hold some things of sweete sauour in their hands or in the corner of a handkerchiefe as a sponge dipped in Vineger Rosewater mixed or in Vineger wherein Wormewood or Rue called also Herbegrace hath bene boyled Preseruatiue by way of inward medicine TAke a quantitie of Rue or Wormewood or of both and put it into a potte of vsuall drinke close stopped let it lie so in steepe a whole night and drinke thereof in the morning fasting In all Sommer plagues it shal be good to vse Sorrel sauce to be eaten in the morning with bread And in the fall of the leafe to vse the iuice of Barberies with bread also Mens bodies are apt to take infectiō either By the constitution of the heart the vitall spirites being weake and the naturall heate feeble in which case thinges Cordiall are to be vsed By repletion the body being filled with humors either Good and then is the party to be let blood Euill and then is hee to be cured with medicine purgatiue Preseruatiues Cordialls Mithridates Medicine TAke of good Figges not wormeaten cleane wasshed of Walnuts the kernels cleane picked of either of them an hundred of the leaues of greene Rue otherwise called Herbgrace the weight of ii s. of common Salt the weight of iiii d. cut the Figges in pieces and stampe them and the Walnut kernels together in a morter of Marble or wood a good space vntil they be very smal and then put your Rue leaues vnto them stampe and stirre them well together with the rest last put in the Salt and stampe and stirre these things together vntill they be encorporated and made of one substance Of the which take the quantitie of ii or iii. Figges euery morning fasting to children the halfe wil serue and he that listeth to increase or diminish the substance of this Medicine shall easely do it by taking of a greater or lesse quantitie of the simples according to a due proportion A well approued Medicine to preserue TAke of the finest cleare Aloes you can buy in colour like to a Liuer and therefore called Hepatica of Cinamō of Myrrhe of ech of these the weight of iii. French crownes or of xxii d. of our money of Cloues Maces Lignum Aloes of Masticke of Bole Oriental of ech of these half an ounce mingle them together and beate them into a very fine powder Of the which take euery morning fasting the weight of a grote of this in white wine delayed with water and by the grace of God you shall be safe from the plague No man which is learned if he examine the simples of this medicine whereof it consisteth and the nature and power of them can denie but that it is a medicine of great efficacie against the plague and the simples wherof it is made are easily to be had in any good Apothecaries shoppe except Bole Orientall which is vsed in the stead of true Bolus Armenus wherof we haue seene great store in the shopps of master Rich the Queenes Maiesties Apothecarie and master Morgans in Cheapsyde Take a drie Figge and open it and put the kernel of a Walnut into the same being cut very smal iii. or iiii leaues of Rue cōmonly called Herbgrace a corne of Salt then rost the Figge eate it warme fast iii. or iiii houres after it and vse this twyse in the weeke Take the powder of Turmentill the weight of vi d. with Sorrell or Scabious water in Sommer and in Winter with the water of Valerian or common drinke Or els in one day they may take a litle Wormewood and Valerian with a graine of Salt. In another day they may take vii or viii berries of Iuniper dried and put in powder and taking the same with common drinke or with drinke in which Wormwood and Rue hath bene steeped al the night Also the triakle called Diaresseroū which is made but of iiii things of light price easie to be had Also the roote of Enula Campana either taken in powder with drinke or hanged about the br●●t Likewise a piece of Arras roote kept in the mouth as men passe in the streetes is very good Cordiall Take vi leaues of Sorrell wash them with water and vineger let them lye to steepe in the said water and vineger a while then eat them fasting and keepe in your mouth and chewe nowe or then either Setwall or the roote of Angelica or a litle Cinamon Take the roote of Enula Campana being layde and steeped in vineger grosse beaten put a litle of it in a handkercheife and smel to it if you resort to any that is infected For women with childe or such as be delicate and tender and cannot away with taking of medicines MAke a tost of white or of the second bread as you thinke good and sprinkle on it being hotte a litle good wine vineger made with Rose leaues and for want of it any good common or vsed vineger spreade on the tost a litle butter and cast thereon a litle powder of Cinamon and eate it in the morning fasting The poore which can not get vineger nor buy Cinamon maye eate bread and Butter alone for Butter is not onely a preseruatiue against the plague but against all maner of poysons When one must come into the place where infectious persons are it is good to smel to the roote of Angelica Gentian or Valerian and to chewe any of these in his mouth An other preseruatiue for the poore IT shal be good to take an handfull of Rue and as much common Wormwood and bruse them a litle and put them into a potte of Earth or Tinne with so much Vineger as shall couer the herbes keepe this pot close couered or stopt and when you feare any infection dippe into this Vineger a piece of asyonge and carie it in your hand and smell to it or els put it into a