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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A16629	A vvatch-man for the pest Teaching the true rules of preservation from the pestilent contagion, at this time fearefully over-flowing this famous cittie of London. Collected out of the best authors, mixed with auncient experience, and moulded into a new and most plaine method; by Steven Bradvvell of London, Physition. 1625.	Bradwell, Stephen.	1625 (1625)	STC 3537; ESTC S115636	43,552	66

A VVATCH-MAN FOR THE PEST TEACHING The true Rules of Preservation from the Pestilent Contagion at this time fearefully over-flowing this famous Cittie of LONDON COLLECTED Out of the best Authors mixed with auncient experience and moulded into a New and most plaine Method BY STEVEN BRADVVELL of London Physition 1625. LONDON Printed by Iohn Dawson for George Vincent and are to be sold at Pauls-gate at the signe of the Crosse-keyes 1625. ¶ To the Reader HIPPOCRATES saith That good Physitians doe applie themselues to the present Time and to take hold of the Occasion The present Time good Reader is Woefull the Occasion Dangerous I know it was not his meaning that we should onely grieue for the first and flee from the latter but to lend our assistance to the necessitie of the Times calamitie I haue but little water to draw yet would I gladly bring my bucket-full to the quenching of this contagious flame and if it be but kindly regarded I am friendly rewarded for I professe not affectation but true affection not a hope of prayse but a heart of pittie draws me or rather driues me to offer my counsell in this case LONDON is my Mother in her wombe had I both Birth and Breeding What Sonne can see his Mother woefully afflicted dangerously sicke and desperately forsaken but he must needs weepe for her teares labour her recovery and lend a hand at least to hold her vp I may not take vpon me to cure the Sicke because I meddle not with the Sicknesse for to practise on the Plague now would proue a plague to my Practise hereafter but I must labour to preserue the sound because by profession I am a Physition Therefore I call this Booke A Watch-man for the Pest because it doth onely as if it were a Warder stand at the dore without and deliver things necessary for preservation to those within but neither enters the infected house nor meddles with the Cure of the Contagious I expect from diverse conceits diverse Censures of this Booke It is too long too short too solid too idle too full too slender and I know not what Yet I hope the judicious will vouchsafe it the reading and the wise the observing as for the rest I will neither favour the Frivolous feare the Envious nor flatter the Curious I know though Hercules labour his heart out he shall not be able to appease a Iuno nor please an Eurystheus Therefore if I be not relished I shall thinke the mouth is out of taste since there is scarce a word but I can proue his worth from good Authoritie If I be gratefull to thy palate good Reader I will not be vngratefull to thy person But if ever thou wilt vse me thou shalt finde me From my Study in Mugwell-street Iuly 18. 1625. Ready to my power to do thee any pleasure STEPHEN BRADVVELL A VVATCH-MAN FOR THE PEST TVLLY whose Method was as pleasing as his Matter sets this downe as a savoury Maxime in Method Omnis quae à ratione suscipitur de aliqua re institutio debet à Definitione proficisci vt intelligatur quid sit id de quo disputatur l. 1. de Officijs To follow him therefore though but as Ascanius followed his Father Aeneas non passibus aequis Him I say whom hardly any hath happened to goe along with foote by foote in fluent sweetnesse I will begin this Discourse with the Definition of the Pest And while I lay open the severall points of the Definition I will discover the Causes the Kinde and Qualities and the Signes and Symptomes of it And withall in their severall places I will lay downe the Rules of Preservation with good Medicines whereby the further spreading of the pestilent Infection may by Gods blessing be prevented ¶ The Definition The Plague is a popular Disease sent immediatly from God wrought by the Constellations of the Heavens the Corruption of the Aire and the Disorder of Mans Diet At the first striking to the Heart is Venemous Deadly and Infectious And for the most part accompanied with a Feavor As also with Spots called Gods-Tokens or with a Blayne or Botch or Carbuncle This word Plague in Latine Pestis in Greeke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifieth a deadly fretting 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 being the same with 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 à 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 quod efficiat defectum hominum or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Pernicies seu exitium Hippocrates giues it a stile of distinction calling it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Morbus communis a common or Popular Disease That it is a Disease needeth no proofe at all since it manifestly affecteth the body contrary to nature and hurteth the actions thereof That it is Popular is also apparent in this that when it once entreth into a Countrey Cittie or Towne it over-runneth the same like a torrent and few escape at least a scratching with it if they be not deeply bitten by it yea more are stricken and slaine by it many times especially in the place where it hath gotten full strength then of all kindes of diseases else what-soever And so much for his Title Now That It is immediately sent from God it is evident by many proofes of holy Scripture As Deut. 28.21 and in the same Chapter at the 22. verse he saith The Lord shall smite thee with a Feavor and with a Consumption with an Inflamation and with an extreame burning In which words are expressed the painfull Symptoms of the Plague viz. a Feavor which I shall proue hereafter a Consumption which being vnderstood of Calor naturalis the heat and life of nature is apparent an Inflamation by which the swelling called the Botch is signified and by an extreame Burning the deadly Carbuncle is liuely described If we desire examples the Botch is plainly specified in the plague of Pharaoh and his servants Exod. 9. Chap. 10. and 11. verses and in the Sicknesse of Hezekiah Isaiah 38.21 Seeing then the All-mightie God of Heaven and Earth in wrath justice sendeth this Plague vpon vs let vs know that as the Triacle for our bodies is consected of the flesh of earthly Serpents so the Triale for our soules must be made of the blood of that brasen Serpent which was lifted vpon the Crosse for our sinnes Let every man be to his owne soule and familie an Aaron to take with speed his Censor of Repentance fill it with fire from the Altar of the exceeding great and precious promises of God in Christ 2 Pet. 1.4 and put the Incense of faithfull Prayer thereon and runne quickly and make an atonement for there is wrath gone out from the Lord the Plague is begun Somtimes the Constellations of the Heavens are the second cause by which God worketh and bringeth these Iudgements on men For Astrologers are of opinion that if Saturn and Mars haue dominion especially vnder Aries Sagittarius and Capricornus the Pestilence is shortly