and two nights then distill it in a stillatorie this water hath been found excellent good both to preserve one from the Plague being drunk three or four spoonfuls of it in the morning fasting as also to expell the disease being drunk with any of the Cordials aforesaid CHAP. II. Sheweth what is to be done after taking of the Cordiall NOw so soon as the partie hath taken his Cordiall if he be able cause him to walke upon it in his chamber a prettie while then lay him into his naked bed being first warmed if it be in cold weather and so procure him to sweat but in any case have a speciall care to keep him from sleep all that day because thereby the bloud and vitall spirits are drawn to the inward parts and there doth hold in the venomous matter about the heart but if the sore appear or be perceived to present it self in any place neer the heart then to defend the malignity thereof before he sweat it were good to annoint the place betwixt the region of the heart and the sore with Triacle or with this Unguent following A good defensative Unguent Take Triacle â„¥ ss. Terra lemnia Red n anaÊ’ i. Mix them together with a little Rose-water and Vinegar in a morter to the form of an Unguent and so use it as aforesaid And unto the sore place apply chickens rumps as before hath been told you and then annoint the place grieved with Oyle of Lillies and then Epithemate the heart with any one of these Epithemations following Epithemation Take the Powder of Diamargaritum frigidum ℈ i. Triasandalum Ê’ vi Ebeni Ê’ ii Saffron ℈ ss. Lettice seed Ê’ i. Waters of Roses Bugloss and Sorrel ana â„¥ vi Vinegar â„¥ ii boil them altogether a little Another Take the waters of Roses Balm Bugloss Carduus benedictus and white wine ana â„¥ iiii Vinegar of Roses â„¥ ii Powder of red Roses Cinnamon Triasandalum Diamargaritum Frigidum anaÊ’ ss. Mithridatum â„¥ i. Triacle â„¥ ss. â—…oil them together a little and being bloud warm Epithemate the heart therewith which being done then procure him to sweat and after sweat and the body dryed then apply this quickly to the heart A Quilt for the Heart Take the floures of Nenuphare Burrage Bugloss ana a little handfull Floures of Balm Rosemary anaÊ’ iii Red n Red corall Lignum aloes Rinde of a citron ana Ê’ i. Seeds of Basil Citrons anaÊ’ i. Leaves of Dittander Berries of Juniper ana ℈ i. Bone of a Stags heart half a scruple Saffron four grains Mixe all these in grosse powder and put them in a bag of crimson Taffetie or Lincloth and lay it to the heart and there let it remain All these things being done then procure him to sweat having a good fire in the chamber and windowes close shut and so let him sweat three or four houres more or lesse or according as the strength of the sick body can endure and then dry the body well with warm clothes taking great care that the sick catch not cold in the doing thereof and then give him some of this Julep following and apply the aforesaid quilt or bag to the heart A cordiall Iulep Take Waters of Endive Purslane and Roses ana â„¥ ii Sorrell water half a pint Juyce of Pomgranats and for lack thereof Vinegar â„¥ iiii Camphire Ê’ iii Sugar one pound Boil all these together in the form of a Julep and give three or four spoonfuls thereof at a time Another Iulep Take Sirrup of Ribes Sorrell Nenuphare ana â„¥ i. Juice of Limons â„¥ i. Sorrell water â„¥ viii Mix all these together and take two or three spoonfulls thereof oftentimes which will both comfort the heart and quench thirst And if in the time of his sweat he be very thirstie then may you give him to drink a Tysane made with water clean Barly and Licorice scrapt clean and bruised boil them together then strein it and unto a quart of the liquor add three ounces of Sirrup of Limons and give thereof at any time small beer or ale is also tolerable or you may give a spoonfull of this Julep following at any time A Iulep to quench thirst â„ž Sorrell-water four ounces Burrage-water Scabios water of either one ounce Sirrup of Lemons and sowre Citrons of either one ounce Mix all these together and so use it as occasion requireth at any time and give oftentimes a cake of Manus Christi made with Perls for him to eat But if in the time of his sweat you see the sick to faint or swoun then apply to his temples and the region of the heart this mixture following â„ž Conserve of Roses Burrage Bugloss Broom floures of either one ounce Mithridate four ounces Triacle one ounce Floures of Violets Pellamountaine Red Roses of either one drachme Roots of Ireos one drachm Musk Sivet of either eight graines Mix all these together with a quantity of Rose-Vinegar in the form of an Opiat this must be spread on Plaisters and applied to the heart and temples and to the soales of the feet apply this plaister following Take of the aforesaid Opiat â„¥ ii unto the which you must put so much more of an Onyon which must have the middle part thereof taken out and the hole filled with Mithridate and Aqua vitae and so rosted in the ashes and then mix it with the Opiat and apply it to both soales of the feet Now when all this is done and that one hour is past after his sweat and body dried as aforesaid it were good you did give the sick some good comfortable broth although he vomit it up againe then let him rest two houres and then offer him more which you must do oftentimes and but little at a time And if after all this done he continue still weak and faint without any amendment then give him another Cordiall as ye did at the first and so caufe him to sweat again so long as his strength can well endure it and after sweat give more of the Julep aforesaid for by this meanes you shall oftentimes see the sore which did offer it self to come forth will be clean discussed and consumed away but if it do not by this means go away then use all the means you can to bring it to suppuration and then open it with some caustick or incision as hereafter shall be shewed you at large The next day after his sweat you may tollerate him to sleep one hour or two in the forenoon whereby to prevent pain or lightnesse of the head which may chance through want thereof and if after his sleep the party be sick and faint then immediately give him some good Cordiall according as the state of his body requireth either in temperate or extream heat as before is shewed and in one hour after that give him some comfortable broth made with Veale Mutton Chicken or such like wherein some Burrage Bugloss Pimpernell and a little Hysop with some Parsley roots the
A TREATISE CONCERNING THE PLAGUE AND THE POX Discovering as well the meanes how to preserve from the danger of these infectious Contagions as also how to cure those which are infected with either of them LONDON Printed by Gartrude Dawson 1652. The Printer to the Reader THis Treatise hath pass'd the view and approbation both of juditious Phisitians and Chirurgians and hath been judged worthy to have a new vesture put upon him and to be vindicated from the obscurity and darknesse it hath lain involved and eclipsed in this many yeares being collected out of the Authorities of the most excellent both former and later Writers and confirmed strengthened and approved by the late experiences of many well practitioned Chirurgians being formerly commended to publick view by the approbation of a late famous Servant and Chirurgian to King Iames deceased who seriously considering the facilenesse of providing the Medicines with their approvednesse in a necessitous time and in places remote both from able Phisitians and Chirurgians the danger of the present Infection requiring speedy help to such as might have occasion to make use of these Medicines not doubting but the charitable intentions of the carefull Authour publishing it on purpose for the publick good shall find the acceptance of so necessitous a work as is wished by A. M. The Author to the Reader WHereas there are divers Receits set down in this Book which are written in Latine in Characters used by Phisitians and Apothecaries which cannot so fitly be brought into our English phrase and because their quantities are set down according to the Latine order observed in the making up their Receits prescribed I have for the better ease and understanding of the Reader set down the signification of their weights and measures according to their Characters A Handfull is written thus M. 1. Half a Handfull thus M. ss. A little small Handfull thus P. 1. A Scruple thus ℈ 1. Half a Scruple x. Graines or thus ℈ ss. A Drachm thus ʒ 1. An Ounce thus ℥ 1. Half an Ounce or half a Drachm ℥ ss. ʒ ss. A Grain thus Gra. 1. A Drop thus Gut 1. The number of any thing thus Nu. 1. c. Half of any thing thus ss. A Pound or Pint thus lib. 1. Twenty Graines make a Scruple Three Scruples make a Drachm Eight Drachms make an Ounce Twelve Ounces a Physick Pound Ana. is of either of them so much P. ae is equall parts or parts alike S. a. Secundum Artem according to Art So much as shall suffice is marked thus q. s A defensative against the Plague The first Treatise CHAP. I. What the Plague is THe antient Phisitians in times past have greatly doubted what the essentiall cause of this disease which we commonly call the Plague or Pestilence should be yet all doe agree that it is a pernitious and contagious Fever and reckoned to be one of the number of those which are called Epidemia chiefly proceeding of adusted and melancholy bloud which may be easily perceived by the extream heat and inflammation which inwardly they doe feel that are infected therewith first assaulting the heart and astonishing the vitall spirits as also by the exteriour Carbunkles and botches which it produceth whose malignity is such both in young and old rich and poor noble and ignoble that using all the meanes which by Art can or may be devised yet in some it will in no sort give place untill it hath by death conquered the party infected therewith CHAP. II. Cause of the Plague THere are divers causes whereof this disease may proceed as sundry Writers doe alledge as by over great and unnaturall heat and drought by great rain and inundations of waters or by great store of rotten and stinking bodies both of men and beasts lying upon the face of the earth unburied as in the time of warres hath been seen which doth so corrupt the air as that thereby our Corn Fruits Hearbs and Waters which we daily use for our food and sustenance are infected also it may come by some stinking dunghils filthy and standing pooles of water and unsavory smels which are near the places where we dwell or by thrusting a great company of people into a close narrow or streight room as most commonly we see in Ships common Gaoles and in narrow and close lanes and streets where many people doe dwell together and the places not orderly kept clean and sweet But most commonly in this our time it is dispersed amongst us by accompanying our selves with such as either have or lately have had the disease themselves or at least have been conversant with such as have been infected therewith But for the most part it doth come by receiving into our custody some clothes or such like things that have been used about some infected body wherein the infection may lie hidden a long time as hath been too too often experimented with repentance too late in many places It may also come by Dogs Cats Pigs and Weasels which are prone and apt to receive and carry the infection from place to place But howsoever it doth come let us assure our selves that it is a just punishment of God laid upon us for our manifold sins and transgressions against his divine Majesty for as Seneca saith Quicquid patimur ab alto venit What crosses or afflictions soever we suffer it cometh from the Lord either for a triall of our faith or a punishment for our sins Wherefore to distinguish any farther thereof I think it needlesse for my intent is in breif sort so exactly as I can to shew the meanes how to prevent the same as also how to cure it when we are infected But before I enter to treat thereof I think it not amisse to shew what forewarnings and tokens are given us before hand of the coming thereof thereby the better to prevent the same by prayer and repentance CHAP. III. Warnings of the Plague to come AVicen a noble Physitian saith that when wee see the naturall course of the ayre and seasons of the year to be altered as when the spring time is cold clowdy and dry the harvest time stormy and tempestuous the mornings and evenings to be very cold and at noon extream hot these do foreshew the Plague to come Also when we see fiery impressions in the firmament especially in the end of summer as comets and such like and that in the begining of harvest we see great store of little frogs red to ades and myse on the earth abounding extraordinarily or when in summer we see great store of toades creeping on the earth having long tailes of an ashy color on their backs and their bellies spotted and of divers colours and when we see great store of gnats swiming on the waters or flying in great companies together or when our trees and hearbs do abound with Caterpillars Spiders Moaths c. which devoure the leaves on the trees and hearbs on the earth it sheweth the ayre to be corrupt
Benedictus water Also so much Triacle of Andromachus description eaten every morning as a bean with a little conserve of Roses is a very excellent good preservative Valetius doth greatly commend the taking of three or four grains of the Bezar stone every morning in a spoonfull of Scabios water I cannot here sufficiently commend the Electuarie called Dioscordium which is not onely good to resist the infection but doth also expell the venemous matter of those which are infected being taken every morning and evening the quantity of a bean and drinke a draught of Rennish or White wine after it in winter season but in Summer a draught of Beer or Ale is best In strong and rusticall bodies and such as are dayly labourers Garlick onely eaten in the morning with some Butter and Salt at breakfast drinking a cup of beer or ale after it hath been found to be very good which is greatly commended by Galen who calleth it the poor mans Triacle but in the sanguine daintie and idle bodies it may not be used because it over-heateth the bloud causeth head-ach and universally inflameth the whole body CHAP. VI NOw when you have taken any of the foresaid Preservatives it were good and necessary to wear upon the Region of the heart some sweet Bag or quilt that hath power to resist venome and also to carry in your hand some sweet Pomander Nodule or Nosegay that will comfort the heart resist venom and recreate the vitall spirits as here following is specified and set down An excellent quilt or Bag â„ž Arsenike cristaline â„¥ i. Diamargaritum frigidum ℈ ii Diambrae ℈ i. You must grinde the Arsenike in small powder and then with some of the infusion of Gum Dragagant in Rose water you must make a paste then spread it on a cloth which must be six inches long and five inches broad and spread it thick then cover it with another cloth and so quilt it together which being done fasten it in another bag of crimson taffetie or Sarseâ—…et and so wear it against the heart all the day time but at night leave it off and here you must take heed that when you sweat you doe take it away for otherwise it will cause the skin to amper a little There are some writers which doe utterly forbid the wearing of Arsenike but thus much I can say that I have given this bag unto divers to wear with most happie and good successe for never did I yet know any one that hath worn this bag and used any of the Electuaries aforesaid that hath been infected with the plague but for any inconvenience or accident that hath happened thereby I never found any hitherto other then the ampring of the skin as aforesaid Another Bag â„ž Ireos â„¥ ss. Calamus aromat. Ciperus ana Ê’ i. ss. Storax Calam. root of Angelica ana Ê’ iii Cloves Mace anaÊ’ i. Red roses dried Ê’ iii Pellemountain Penniroyall Calamint Elder floures ana Ê’ i ss. Nutmegs Cinnamon Yellow Sanders anaÊ’ i. Nardi Italicae Ê’ i. Amber greece and Musk ana six grains You must pound all these in powder and then quilt them in a bag of Crimson â—…affatie as aforesaid A Pomander good in the Summer time â„ž The rind of Citrons Red Roses Nenuphare Roses Yellow sanders anaÊ’ ss. Storax liquid Benjamin ana Ê’ i. Myrrh ℈ ii Ladanum Ê’ i. ss. Musk and Amber ana six grains Powder all that is to be powdered and then work them together in a hot morter with a hot pestell adding unto it in the working some of the Musselage of dragagant dissolved in sweet Rose water or rose vinegar and so make your Pomander Another good one for the winter time â„ž Storax liquid Benjamin Storax calamint Ladanum and Myrrh ana half a drachm Cloves one scruple Nutmegs Cinnamon of each half a scruple Red Roses Yellow Sanders Lignum aloes and Ireos of each half a dram Calamus aromaticus rind of a Citron ana four grains Amber greece Musk and Civet of each six grains You may make up this as the other before with some Musselage of the infusion of Gum dragagant infused in Rosewater A good Nodule for the Summer season â„ž Floures of Violets red Roses and Nenuphare of each one drachm Red White and Yellow sanders of each half a drachm Camphire xii graines Cause all these to be beaten in grosse powder then knit them all together in a peece of Taffetie and when you will use it then wet it in Rose water and a little Vinegar and so smell to it Another Nodule for the Winter season â„ž The dried leaves of Mints Majoram Time Penniroyall Lavender Pellemountain and Balm of each a little handfull Nutmegs Cloves Cinnamon Angelica roots Lignum aloes of each one drachm Saffron two scruples Cause all these to be infused in Rose-water and Vinegar one whole night then wet a spunge in the liquor thereof and knit it in a peece of Taffaty or your handkerchief whereunto you must smell oftentimes A Nosegay for the same purpose â„ž Hearb grace three branches Rosemary Majoram Mints and Thime of either one branch Red-Rose buds and Carnations of either three or four Make your nosegay herewith then sprinkle him over with Rose-water and some rose-Vinegar and smell often unto it Also when you suspect to go into any dangerous or infected company do you alwaies carry in your mouth a peice of the root of Angelica the rind of a Citron dried or a great Clove which must be first infused or steeped one whole night in rose-water and Vinegar CHAP. VII FOr that there is not a greater enemy to the health of our bodies then costiveness both in the time of the Plague and otherwise I have here set down how and by what meanes you may keep your self soluble which you must use once four and twenty hours if otherwise you have not the benefit of nature by custome A Suppository Take two spoonfulls of Honey and one spoonfull of Bay-Salt small pounded boyle them together untill it grow thick alwaies stirring it in the boyling then take it from the fire and if you list you may add one drachm of Ihera picra simplex unto it and so stirre them well together and when it is almost cold make up your suppositories of what length and bignesse you list and when you minister any you must first annoint it with Butter or Sallet oyle you may keep these a whole year if you put them in Barrowes mort or grease and so cover them up close therein A good Glister â„ž Mallowes Mercury Beets Violets Red-Fennell of either one handfull Seeds of Fennell Annis Coriander of either one drachm Boyle all these in a sufficient quantity of Water untill half the water be consumed then straine it and keep it in a glasse close stopt untill you need for it will keep a whole week Take of the same decoction a pint â„ž Mel Rosarum or common Honey one spoonfull Oyle of Violets or oyle of Olives three ounces Salt one drachm
doth look blew and that then there appear not any matter or quitture in the wound but as it were a spume or froth issuing out thereof are ill and deadly signes When the botch waxeth so hard that by no means it will come to suppuration but resisteth whatsoever is done unto it for the furthering thereof and so returneth in againe into the inward parts suddenly is a token of sudden death at hand and so it is if either before or after it is broken it look of a blewish colour or of divers colours like the Rainbow round about it When the Carbunckle or Blain doth suddenly dry up as if it were scorcht with the fire and that the place round about it doth shew to be of a wannish blew colour is a deadly sign if in the skin appear green or black spots the excrements of divers colours with worms in it either dead or living having a vile stinking savour and spitteth stinking and bloudy matter doth betoken death When the sick complaines of great and extream heat in the inward parts and yet cold outwardly the eyes staring or weeping the face terrible the said excrements or urin passing away and the party not knowing thereof are evill signes When in the fourth or seventh day they are taken with a frensie or do fall into an extream bleeding at nose or have a great flux with a continuall vomiting or a desire to vomit and do it not extream pain at the heart watchfullness and the strength clean gone are deadly signes When the party being very sick yet saith he feeleth himself well his eyes sunk deep in his head and full of tears when he thinks all things do stink his nailes looking blew the nose sharp and as it were crooked the breath thick and short with a cold sweat in the brest and face and turning and playing with the clothes the pulse creeping or scarcely to be felt and greivous unto him to speak these are infallible signes of death at hand Some before any of these signes are perceived do dy and some likewise which have divers of them appearing and yet do escape such is the uncertainty of this disease there are many other symptoms which do happen in this contagious disease which would be too tedious to declare but these as the chiefest may suffice The end of the first Treatise The Second Treatise shewing the meanes how to cure the Plague CHAP. I. WHen we perceive any to be infected with this contagious disease we must with all possible speed seek all the meanes we can how to prevent the malignity thereof whose property is at the first to assault the principall part which is the heart and therefore requires present help for unlesse something be done within eight or four and twenty houres little will it then prevail to attempt it for by that time nature is either subdued and clean overthrown or else hath thrust the same to the exterior parts or otherwise digested it yet may we not neglect at any time to use all the meanes we can in helping and furthering of nature to the uttermost of our indeavour because we doe oftentimes see nature so wearied and weakened in expelling of this venemous matter that unlesse some help be added to assist and comfort her the party for lack thereof dyeth which otherwise might be saved For I have oftentimes seen by diligent helping of nature that to be effected and brought to good passe which I have judged most desperate There are foure intentions required for the curing thereof that is by bloud-letting Cordials sweat and purging but the manner how to execute the same hath bred great contention both amongst the old and later Writers which here to treat of were too tedious for unto the learned it were needlesse and for the commonalty little would it availe them therefore in brief will I shew you what I have observed touching the cure First if it be in a Plethorick sanguine and strong body and hath pain in the head great heat at the heart thirstnesse the pulse strong and labouring or beating strongly and hath great and large veines appearing these ought presently to be let bloud in that side where yee perceive the greif doth proffer it selfe to come forth and not visibly appearing tending to maturation For then we may not draw bloud but use all other meanes we can devise in helping nature to expell it neither may you draw bloud if the party have a flix or lask which is an evill sign in the beginning of the disease for by that meanes you shall hinder nature greatly but onely give the party Cordials neither may you stop the flix in the beginning but if it be extream and that it stay not the second day then must you give some purgation which may leave an astringency behind it as hereafter in the cure of the flix shall be shewed For as Hyppocrates in his first book and one and twentieth Aphorisme doth admonish us we must consider and mark how nature doth incline her self for that will teach us what we are to doe Now if you perceive the botch or carbunkle to appear underneath the chin about the throat then presently draw bloud in both vein̄es under the tongue and immediately after that apply a cupping glasse with scarification in one side of the neck next unto the fore thereby to draw it from the throat for fear least suddenly it choke him up and then apply Chickens rumps or Hens rumps to the botch the feathers being first pluckt away from the rump and a grain of Salt put into the tewell and so hold the bare place to the greif untill the Chicken die which will be within half an hour and then apply another and so continue in changing them so long as they doe die and lastly apply a mollificative Cataplasme or plaister to the same place as in the fift Chapter following is shewed which is made with Unguentum basillicon and to the botch apply the Epithemation and Cataplasme in the seventh Chapter following But if it be in the neck he doth complain then let him bloud in the Cephallica vein in the arm of the same side where he complaineth If in the groin or flanke he doth complain then let him bloud in the foot on the same side and open the vein called Maleola or Saphena the quantity must be according as the age and strength of the party requireth but at most draw not above six or eight ounces For Avicen willeth us to preserve bloud as the treasure of nature But in a weak spare and cachochimious body as Galen teacheth us we may not draw bloud at all for thereby should you greatly indanger the Patient but help such by Cordials and sweat And here you shall understand that unlesse Phlebotomy be done at the first that is within six or eight houres atmost it will be too late to attempt it neither may you doe it if the sore doe appear up in height tending to suppuration for then
roses of either four drachms Diamoron two ounces Mix these together and gargarize and wash the mouth therewith oftentimes being warm and it helpeth Vomiting extreamly how to help it If it come in the beginning of the disease as most commonly it doth there is no better means to stay it then by giving of Cordials and by sweating by which meanes that venomous matter which is the cause thereof is expelled and breathed out but if after Cordials given and sweat it doth not stay it is a very ill and dangerous signe yet what means I have used to stay the same I will here shew you A good bag for the stomack ℞ Dried leaves of Mints Elder Origanie Wormwood Calamint Mugwort Thime Balme Pellemountaine tops of Dill of either a little handfull Seeds of Carduus Benedictus Fennell Annis of either four drachms Roots of Ciperus Calamus aromaticus of either four drachms Nutmegs Cloves Mace of either half a drachm Make all these in gross powder then put it into a linnen bag which must be made so broad and long as will cover the stomack then take Rose-water and strong Vinegar of either ten spoonfulls wherein do you dissolve one ounce of Mithridate then must you first wet the said bag in two parts of clean water and a third part of White or Claret-wine and let him soak therein a little while the liquor being first warmed on a Chafer and coales and then wet him in the Rose-water and and Vinegar being warm and so apply it to the stomack and when he waxeth cold warm him therein againe and let him remain half an hour in all and then take him away and dry the stomack with a warm cloth and then annoint it with this ointment following ℞ Chymicall oyles of Rosemary Sage of either one drachm Vinegar Mithridate of either one drachm Mix all these together and so use it and if the party be costive then were it good to give him a glister wherein dissolve two drachms of Mithridate it is also good to apply Ventoses unto the buttocks and thighes Yoxe or yexing to stay it ℞ Dill seed two scruples and half White Poppy seed Purslane seed of either one scruple and a half Bruise them a little then knit them in a fine linnen cloth and let it soak in the drink which he useth and when you give him drink wring out the bag therein and let him drink it and that will stay it also the order aforesaid to help vomiting is good to stay the yoxe or yexing but if neither of them prevaile then will the sick hardly escape death Flix how to stop it You must first give the patient this purpation following which doth not onely purge away those slimie humors which is the cause thereof but doth also leave an astringencie behind it ℞ Rhab. elect ʒ iii Cinamoni ℈ ii Aquarum Endiviae Borraginis ana ℥ ii Infuse them together twelve houres then strain it out strongly and add thereto one ounce of Sirrup of roses laxative and so drink it warm refraining from meat and drink and sleep three houres after it and at night when it hath done working give this confection following ℞ Conservae ros. ʒ iiii Dioscordii ℈ i. ss. Pul. Diatragag frigid ℈ i Dialkermes G. x. Sir de Lemon ʒ ii misce When you have given this confection then doe you Epithemate the region of the heart with this Epithemative following Epithemation for the heart ℞ Aquarum Buglossae Burrag Rosarum Oxialidis ana ℥ iiii Throchiscorum de camphera ℈ i. Pul. diamargarit frigid ʒ i. Aceti alb. ℥ i. Offa de corde cervi ℈ ss. Santal Rub. Coral Rub. misce ana ℈ i. With this you must Epithemate the Region of the heart warm a quarter of an hour and if by this meanes it stay not then the next day give some of this confection following which I have found excellent good for the stopping of any flix whatsoever ℞ Conservae ros. siccae ℥ i. Pul. Rhab. troschiscat ℈ i. Térrae lemniaeʒ ss. Lap. Hemattitis Sang. Draco Bolarmoni anaʒ ii Mithridatii misce ʒ i. You must every morning and evening give two drachm hereof and drink some Plantaine water after it Now here you must understand that if the flix come in the beginning of the sicknesse and that no botch Carbunkle nor spots appear in the body then in any case you may not goe about to stop it but suffer nature to discharge it selfe and onely help nature with Cordials and Epithemations applyed to the heart but if by the continuance thereof the Patient grow very weak and faint therewith then is it to be repressed as before is shewed but it must be the third day before you attempt to doe it But if this flix come when the botch or Carbunkle doth appear and tending to maturation then is it very dangerous for by that meanes the venomous matter is drawn back again into the principall parts and so killeth the Patient CHAP. IIII. Sheweth the generall cure of a botch when he appeares outwardly FIrst give Cordials and use the defensive before taught you in the second Chapter thereby to keep it from the heart and then bring it to maturation as followeth A good Maturative Take a great Onyon and roast him in the ashes then pound him with some powder of white Mustard-seed and for lack thereof some Triacle and pound them together and so apply it to the greif warm and renue it twice a day which within three or four dayes at most will bring it to suppuration Another Take white Lilly roots Enulacompane roots Scabios and Onyons of either two ounces Roast all these together in a Cole leafe or a wet paper then pound them with some sweet Butter and a little Venice Triacle whereunto doe you adde some Galbanum and Ammoniacum dissolved in Vinegar and strained from the fesses and dregs and so mix them altogether and apply it renewing it twice a day Another where no inflammation is Take Unguentum basilicon ℥ iiii soure Leaven ℥ ii Oil of Lilies sweet Butter ana ʒ iiii Triacle ʒ i. ss. yolks of two Eggs Mix them together and so apply it and when it is come to suppuration then open it in the lowest part either with a potentiall Caustick or by inscition but the Caustick is best and when you have opened it if no matter flow out then apply the rumps of Chickens to the sore as before hath been shewed after that put into the wound a digestive as followeth A Digestive Take the yolk of an Egge clear Turpentine ʒ iiii clarified Honey ʒ ii Mithridate or Triacle ʒ ss. Mix all these together and use it in the wound untill it be well digested which you may perceive by the great quantity of white and thick matter that will flow out of it and upon the sore lay this Cataplasme untill it be digested A digestive Cataplasme ℞ Fat Figs and Raisins the stones pickt out ana ℥ ii Sal nitrumʒ iv sour Leaven
â„¥ iii Honey â„¥ i. oil of Cammomill â„¥ i. ss. You must shread and pound the Figs and Raisins very small then commix it with the rest in a morter in form of a pultis and use it And when it is digested then you must mundifie it with a mundificative to which purpose Unguentum virid or else Apostolorum mixt with Unguentum basilicon will serve and when it is clean mundified then to incarnate and heal it up doe you onely annoint or strike it over with a feather wet in Arceus linament which must be molten in a saucer and over all lay a plaister of Diaculum or a plaister of Kellebackeron which is excellent good in all Imposthumes and tumours and in this order doe you proceed untill the greif be whole CHAP. V. Sheweth how to bring the botch out that lieth deep within the body or flesh FIrst you must consider that oftentimes the botch or carbunkle doth offer it selfe to come forth in some place of the body and yet no apparant sign thereof but lieth deep hidden within because nature is not of sufficient strength to thrust it forth which is easily perceived by the great and almost intolerable pain that by some is felt in the place where nature intends to expell it which in the most part of people by bloud-letting Cordials and sweat is clean taken away and evacuated but if after all this is done it goe not away then unto these you must use all the meanes you can to bring it to the outward parts First by giving to the sick oftentimes some Cordiall Electuary to keep it from the heart then if no great pain be in the outward part you must apply a cupping-glasse with scarification directly against the place where the greif is felt and let it remain thereon a quarter or halfe an hour then take it away and presently apply the rumps of Chickens Hens or Pigeons to the place as before hath been shewed that being done then lay some attractive and maturative plaister or Cataplasme to the place which here following is shewed and every sixth hour you must apply the cupping-glass as also the rest untill such time as you have brought the venomous matter to the outward parts there to be visibly seen or at least by feeling to be perceived which commonly is effected at the second time then use no more cupping but onely apply a maturative to the place A good Maturative Cataplasme â„ž Rad. simphyti ma Liliorum Ceparum Allium ana â„¥ i. Fol. Oxialidis M. i. You must pound all these together a little then wrap them in a cole leafe and so roast them in the hot embers then pound them in a morter whereunto adde Ol. liliorum Auxungiaeporâ—… ana â„¥ i. Fermenti acrisÊ’ vi MithridatiiÊ’ i. Mix them altogether in form of a Pultus and so apply it warm and renue it twise a day Another â„ž Galbani Apopanacis Ammoniaci ana Ê’ iiii Dissolve these in Vinegar if the botch be hot and inflamed but if it be not then dissolve them in Aqua vitae and being dissolved then strain it from the dregs and adde thereto Unguent basillici Mithridat Fomenti acris ana â„¥ iiii Mix all these together and apply it Another which is sooner made Take a great Onyon make a hole in the middle of him then fill the place with Mithridate or Triacle and some leaves of Rue then roast him in the hot embers and when it is soft then pound it with some Barrowes greace and apply it to the sore and that will ripen it in short time then open and cure it as in the Chapter before But if the pain and inflammation in the place be so great that the party cannot indure cupping glasses to be used then must you apply a Vesicatory to the place in the lowest part of the greife A Vesicatory Take Cantharides bruised in grosse powder Ê’ ss. soure Leaven Ê’ ii mix them together in a morter with a little Vinegar and apply it which within twelve houres will raise a blister which you must open and then lay an Ivie or Cole leafe to the place and upon all apply any of the Cataplasmes aforesaid and dresse it twice a day and once a day at least give the Patient some Cordiall and when it is come to a sortnesse and that you perceive it is imposthumated then open it and so proceed to the cure as before is shewed When the botch will not come to Maturation but continueth alwayes hard Sometime it is seen that the botch although it appear outwardly yet will it not come to maturation which commonly is accomplished within three or four dayes but will resist whatsoever you apply to it and remain and continue alwayes hard now here you must presently open it either with a Caustick or by inscition for fear least it strike in again or at least grow to gangrena but before you open it you must Epithemate the greif with this Epithemation following and every morning and evening give the sick some Cordiall and betwixt the sore and the heart annoint it with the defensive before in the second Chapter An Epithemation Take leaves of Mallowes Violets Cammomill ana M. i. Floures of Dill Mellilot ana â„¥ i. Hollehock roots â„¥ iiii Linseed â„¥ ii Boil all these in a sufficient quantity of water untill halfe the water be consumed and then wet some Wooll or Flax therein being first well beaten and pickt clean and lay it upon the sore warm and as it cooleth doe you take it away and lay on another warm stewse and so continue it half an hour together and then open it as beforesaid and immediately apply to the wound Chickens or Hens as before in the first Chapter hath been shewed you and if you cannot get Chickens nor Hens then a Whelpe or a Pigeon clovâ—…n asunder by the back and so applyed warm will suffice which must be renued so oftentimes as cause requireth and when that is done then apply unto the wound a digestive made as followeth A Digestive Take Turpentine â„¥ ss. Honey Ê’ ii Mithridate or Triacle Ê’ ss. the yolk of a new laid Egge Mix all these together and use it in the wound and upon all lay the digestive Cataplasme beforesaid which is made of Figs or a plaister of Kellebackeron or of Diaculum magnum and dresse it twice a day and every dressing Epithemate the greif as beforesaid when it is digested then mundifie incarnate and sigillate it as in the Chapter before is shewed you CHAP. VI Sheweth what is to be done when the botch strikes in again SOmetimes you shall see the sore will appear outwardly and suddenly vanish away again which is a very dangerous and deadly sign now when this doth chance then presently give some good Cordiall that hath power to expell the venome as in the first Chapter of this Treatise you may find choyce of and immediately apply this Pultus to both the soales of his feet which must be made with Culver-dung
and Vinegar mixt together and spread on a Cole leafe and so applyed you must give the Cordiall every third hour and immediately after the first giving of the Cordiall you must Epithemate the heart with the Epithemation before expressed in the second Chapter of this Treatise and when that is done then cause the sick to sweat if you may and after his sweat and the body well dried then give him an easie Glister the next day parge him with some gentle pargation as before is shewed you And if by these meanes you prevail not then small hope of life is to be expected yet Petrus Forestus willeth you first to give a Glister and then within two houres after it to draw some bloud in the same side where the greif is and to annoint the place greived with Unguentum resumptivum mixt with some Oil of Cammomill and then two houres after it to give a Cordiall and procure sweat upon it and so following the rest of the orders aforesaid did recover divers CHAP. VII Sheweth how to draw a botch from one place to another and so to discusse him without breaking FIrst you must apply a cupping glasse next adjoyning to the lower part of the sore on that side where you would have him to be brought and next unto that glasse apply another so neer the first as you can and if that be not so farre as you would have the sore to be brought then apply the third glasse and let them all remain a quarter of an hour then takeaway the last glasse but suffer the first to remain then presently apply him again and let it remain a quarter of an hour more and doe so three or four times together but alwayes suffer the first glasse next the sore for to remain now when you have thus done then take all the glasses away and presently apply a Vesicatory to the place where the last and uttermost glasse did stand suffering it to remain there twelve houres then open the blister and lay an Ivy or Cole leafe to the place and upon all lay a plaâ—…ster of Kellebackeron or Diaculum magnum and dresse it twice a day the longer you keep it running the better it will be and at length â—…eal it up as other Ulcers are cured Now so soon as you have applyed the Vesicatory you must presently epithemate the botch with this Epithemation Epithemation Take Mallowes Violets Cammomill Dill and Mellilot ana M. i. Hollehock roots three ounces Lin-seed one ounce and a half Boile all these in a sufficient quantity of water untill halfe the water be consumed in this decoction you must wet some unwashed Wooll or Flax made clean and well beaten then being wrung out a little apply it warm to the place and renue it every hour during the time that the Vesicatory is in working and when you have opened the blister that is made thereby then onely apply this Cataplasme to the botch it self Take Mallowes Violets and Cammomill floures of either one handfull Boil them in water untill they be tender then cut them very small with a shreading knife and add thereto Oil of Cammomill and Lillies of either two ounces Barrowes mort two ounces Wax one ounce Mâ—…lt the Wax in the Oiles and then put it to the Hearbs and boile them together a little then take it from the fire and adde thereto Barly and Bean flower a handfull of either of them and so mix them altogether and apply it to the greif renuing it twice a day which within three or four dayes will resolve and discusse the botch but if it doe it not by that time then use all the meanes you can to bring it to suppuration as before is sufficiently shewed you CHAP. VIII Sheweth how to know a Carbunkle or blain as also the 〈◊〉 of the same THe Carbunkle or blain doth first begin with a little Pustula or wheal and sometime with divers Pustulaes or wheales together with a great burning and pricking pain in the place which Pustulaes are like a scalding bladder seeming to be full of water or matter yet when you open it little or nothing will come out of it and when they are broken will grow to a hard crust or scarre as if it had been burnt with a hot Iron or Caustick with a great ponderosity or heavinesse in the place In some it comes in the beginning without any Pustula at all to be perceived but with a hard black crust or a scarre sometimes it lyeth hidden in the inward parts without any outward appearance at all as if it be in the lungs then there is a difficulty of breathing with a Cough and foul spitting If it be in the Liver or Spleen then the party feeleth a great pain and pricking in the same side if in the Kidneyes or Bladder it doth chance then is there suppression or stopping of the Urine or great pain in the making of water if it be in the Brain then a delirium followeth but howsoever it chance to come the party infected therewith hath a Fever with other accidents as before in the 13. Chapter of the first Treatise is declared if it begin with a green black or blew colour or of divers colours like the Rainbow then is it a deadly signe and so is it if once it appear and then suddenly vanish away but if it be red or yellowish so it be not in any of the principall parts or emunctuaries of the body as the heart stomack armpit flanke jawes or throat then it is laudable otherwise in any of these places very desperate and dangerous to be cured but wheresoever it doth chance unlesse it may be brought to suppuration it is deadly The cure of the Carbunkle First the Universall means must not be neglected as bloud-letting cordials epithemations sweet and gentle evacuation by purging as the time and cause requireth which before in the beginning of this Treatise hath been shewed at large and the same order which is used for the cure of a Botch is also to be kept in the cure of a Carbunkle and to rectifie the ayre of the house by strewing it with vine and willow leaves red Roses and such like as also to sprinkle the floor with Rose water and Vinegar and cause the sick oftentimes to smell unto a cloth wet in Rosewater and Vinegar is very good these things being done then use all the means you can to bring it to Suppuration for which purpose this Cataplasm following is very good A Maturative Cataplasm Take Fat Figs â„¥ iiii Mustard seed â„¥ i. ss. Pound the seed small by it self the Figs must first be cut very small and then pounded likewise and then adde thereto so much Oyle of Lillies as will suffice to make it in the form of a stiffe Pultis and apply it warm renuing it twice a day this must be continued untill the scar begin to grow loose and moveable and then apply this following to remove the scar Take unsalted butter the yolk of
and thrust forth the venomous humours and then you must have respect to the signes before rehearsed The infection of the Plague entereth into a man after this sort In a man are three principall parts that is the Heart Liver and Brains and each of these hath his cleansing place If they appear in the neck they shew the Brains to be chiefly vexed if under the arme-holes the Heart but if they appear in the share the Liver is most infected For when a man hath taken infection it presently mingleth with the bloud and runs to the heart which is the cheif part of man and the heart putteth the venome to his cleansing place which is the arme-holes and that being stopt putteth it to the next principall part which is the liver and it passeth it to his cleansing place which is the share and they being stopt passe it to the next principall place that is the braines and to their cleansing places which are under the eares or under the throat and they being stopped suffer it not to passe out and then it is moved twelve hours before it rest in any place and if it be not let out within the space of four and twenty hours by bleeding it brings a man into a pestilentiall Ague and causeth a botch in one of those three places or near unto them The Cure of the Plague When thou feelest thy self infected bleed in the first hour or within six hours after drink not and tarry not above twelve hours from bleeding for then when the bloud is flitting too and fro the venome is then moving and not yet setled and after it will be too late those that are fat may be let bloud or else not If the matter be gathered under the arme-holes it comes from the heart by the Cardiacall vein then bleed on the same side by the Basilica vein the innermost vein of the arme If the botch appear behind the eares above the chin or in any other part of the face or neck bleed out of the Cephalica vein on the same side you may bleed with cupping Glasses and Scarification or Horseleeches If the botch appear in the share bleed in the ankle on the same side in any case not in the arme for it will draw up the matter again But if no botch appear outwardly draw bloud out of that side where you feel greatest pain and heavinesse and out of that vein the greif of the members affected shall point thee out If you perceive the Plague invade you at meat or on a full stomack vomit speedily and when your stomack is empty take some Medicine that may resist Poyson as Mithridate or Triacle or some of these following which as choise Medicines I have inserted as being Doctor Edwards Experiments For the Plague Infuse two peices of fine pure Gold in the juyce of Lemons four and twenty hours and drink that juyce with a little Wine with powder of the Angelica root It is admirable and hath helped divers past all hope of cure Another Take two drachms of Juniper berries of Terra lemnia ℈ i. make both into fine powder and mix it with Honey and take of it as much as a haâ—…ell Nut in three drachms of honeyed water made up thus Take a pint of Honey and of water eight pints seeth and scum it at an easie fire till the fourth part be wasted It is an excellent Antidote against Poyson and Plague if the Poyson be taken before it will expell it by vomit if not the Medicine will stay in the stomack Another Take Zedoary roots the best you can get great Raisins and Licorice champ it with thy teeth and swallow it if you be infected it preserveth without danger Another for botches boyls and tokens Take of ripe Ivy berries dryed in the shade as much of the powder as will lye upon a groat or more and put it into three or four ounces of white Wine and lie in bed and sweat well after your sweat is over change shirt and sheets and all the bed clothes if he may if not yet change his shirt and sheets Some have taken this powder over night and found themselves well in the morning and walked about the house fully cured One having a Plague sore under the thigh another under the left arme-pit taking this powder in the morning and again that night the sores brake of themselves by this excellent Medicine sent by Almighty God It is good for Botches Boyles Plague-sores Tokens Shingles Erisipella and such like c. Thus farre Doctor Edwards Doctor in Physick and Chirurgery Experiments tried by my selfe For the Plague TAke of Pillulae pestilentiales called Ruffi or of Panâ—…hy Magogon or for want of it of extraction Rudii of each half a drachm mingle these into six pills for two doses whereof take three at a time in the morning fasting for two dayes together Another excellent approved Remedy Take eight or nine grains of Aurum vitae either in Triacle water or made up in Diascordium fasting Another excellent sweating powder for the Plague Take of the powder e Chelis Cancrorum of Aromatitum rosatum and of Cerusa Autimonii of each half a scruple mingle these up together in a diaphoretick powder and take it in four spoonfuls of Triacle water well mingled together The Cure of Diseases in Remote Regions The Calenture HAppeneth to our Nation in intemperate Climates by Inflammation of bloud and proceedeth often of immoderate drinking of wine and eating of pleasant fruits which are such nourishers thereof as they prevent the meanes used in curing the same To know the Calenture At the first apprehension it afflicts the Patient with great pain in the head and heat in the body which is continuall or increasing and doth not diminish and angment as other Fevers doe and is oft an Introduction to the Taberdilla or Pestilence but then the body will seem very yellow To cure the Calenture So soon as you perceive the Patient possest of the Calenture except the Chirurgion for danger of the sign defer it I have seen the time of the day not respected open the Median vein of the right arm and take such quantity of bloud as agreeth with the ability of the bodie but if it asswage not the heat by the next day open the same vein in the left arme and take so much more like quantity of bloud at his discretion and if the body be costive as commonly they are give him some meet purgation and suffer him to drink no other then water cold wherein Barley and Annise-seeds have been boyled with bruised Liquorice And if within 4. dayes the partie amend not or being recovered take it again open the vein Cephalick in one or both hands bathing them in warm water untill there come so much more bloud as cause requires Suffer not the Patient to drinke seven dayes after he is perfectly recovered any other drinke then such water as is before herein directed The Taberdilla IS a disease so called