this Cittie Except these tarry wee cannot be saved And so much for the Qualitie of the Plague Now I come to the last Part of the Definition discovering the Signes and Symptoms of it in these words And for the most part is accompanied with a Feavor as also with Spots called Gods-Tokens or with a Blayne or Botch or Carbuncle I say for the most part it is thus accompanied but not alwayes For some are suddainly stricken and die before they haue any acquaintance either with distemper or outward paine Some haue thought there may be a Plague and yet no Feavor But Mindererus proues that to be an idle conceit li. de Pest cap. 6. Some also haue died of the Plague and yet nothing hath appeared outwardly and such as die suddainly haue seldome any Spots or such like outward signe and are therefore lesse infectious then others if they be not too long kept vnburied But to come to the severall Points which haue two Generalls to wit Inward Signes and Outward Signes The Inward is a Feavor and his Symptoms The Outward are The Tokens the Blayne the Botch and the Carbuncle The first and Inward Signe is a Feavor As soone as the Heart is stricken with the putrid vapour the Spirits grow distempered and inflamed And this distemperature is a Feavor not Proper but Symptomaticall or Accidentall and this Feavor is not of one kinde in every one but diverse and such are his Symptoms also As sometime Pleuriticke sometime Squinanticke sometimes Cholericke sometimes Continuall and sometimes Intermitting These distempers relate the cruell Combate begun betwixt Nature and her Mâ—â—â—all Enemie The outward Signes bring Newes of the Hopes or Feares to which side the Victorie is like to fall For if Nature expell any part of the venom outward it is a signe of some strength in her If the Tokens appeare either the Enemie is but weake or els Nature is but weake and shews her good will more then her power For except the assault be but slight those repulses will not get the Conquest If there be a Blayne or Blister it shewes Nature is a little stronger and the enemy not a little cursâ—er If the Botch or great Apostumation rise Then hath Nature a crowd of corrupt matter to encounter with an Armie of Enemies against which shee stoutly bestirres her selfe If shee driue forth a great quantitie of matter and withall be well fortified within by Antidotes to maintaine her Spirits and strength and without by perfumes that while the Body of the Battalion is driven out the skouts of straggling vapours that arise from it steale not in againe by the mouth nostrills and other outward passages then is she like to winne the day And by the places where she driues them out it appeares against which of the three Castles of Nature the greatest assault is given and continued For if the Swelling arise in the Armepits it shews that the the Seidge is continued where it first begun at the Heart If in the necke then is the Battery layd at the Brayne And if in the Groyne then is the Liver beleaguered But sometimes these Princes are all at once assaulted and then is it altogether vnlikely that Nature can recover For though both she and they be never so stout and seeme for a time to prevaile by expelling abundance of matter in the breaking of the Botches yet Nature may be so over-charged and the enemie whose venome is sly and subtle may shew himselfe such a Machavilian as one way or other he weakens her forces puts her braue Spirits to flight and tyrant-like demolisheth all her beautious Buildings If the Carbuncle arise Then we may say Nature playes the Lion but alas shee hath to deale with a fiery Dragon this of all venoms being the most malicious and cruell But that the colours of these bloudy Ensignes may the better be discovered I will play the Herald and blazon every Signe by himselfe So many I meane as are most inseparable from the Plague therfore chiefly to be respected As for the rest though they be many they belong as well and more properly to other diseases and are more deceitfull and lesse vsefull to any but the Physitian onely The Signes of the Plague therefore are commonly these First a secret sinking of the Spirits and Powers of Nature with a painfull wearinesse of the bones and all without any manifest cause Then follows great trouble and oppression of the heart that the partie vnquietly rowles vp and downe for rest from one place to another sighing often and either offering to vomit or vomiting filthy stuffe of divers colours yellow greene and blackish then come paines in the head which still increase and faintnesse But after these come the surest Signes which are the Tokens Blayne Botch and Carbuncle The Tokens are Spots of the bignesse of Flea-bitings some bigger some as bigge as a penny They shew themselues commonly in the brest and backe but they will sometimes appeare in other places also In some they will be many in some but a few in others but one or two In colour they are for the most part of a pale blew but somtimes also purple or blackish circled with a reddish circle The Blayne is a little Blister somwhat like one of the Swine-Pocks and many times of the same colour but somtimes of a blewish or leaden colour and being opened affordeth filthy matter of the like complexion Round about the Blister there is a rednesse the breadth of a groat six-pence or nine-pence These will rise in any part somtimes one alone somtimes two or three but never very many And these will breake and fall and leaue a dry crust which will scale off The Botch is a hard swelling rising as I sayd before in the necke vnder the eares or vnder the chinne in the armepits in the groynes It swelleth somtimes no bigger then a Nutmeg somtimes as bigge as a Wall-nut others as a Hens egge and some as bigge as a Mans fist Also in some it swelleth out very fully to be seene plainly and becommeth so soare that it can endure nothing to touch it in others it lieth low and deepe in the flesh onely to be found by feeling and somtimes also scarcely to be felt but if you touch the place it is painfull Those that lie high and plaine to be seene are more hopefull the low lurking ones are very ominous and pernicious The Carbuncle riseth like a little push or pustle with a prettie broad compasse of rednesse round about it It is wonderfull angry and furiously enflaming as if a quicke coale of fire were held to the place whence it hath his name Carbunculus a little coale of fire It creepeth secretly in the flesh next vnder the skin and is full of such a furious malignant poyson as it will quickly consume and eate out so great a peece of flesh for the capacitie it is in as
to be expected Or if those two the most maleuolent be in opposition to the gentle Planet Iupiter the effect of that opposition is the Plague As the Poet singeth Coelitus imbuitur tabo difflatilis aura Mars quando obijâ—itur Falcitenensque Iovi I know there be many learned men that thinke the starres because they are good and pure creatures can bring forth no evill nor impure effects And amongst these Valeriola in Append. ad loc com cap. 2. thinks he hath so absolutely satisfied the point that no obiection may ever be made more yet I am of Mercurialis his opinion that though of themselues primarily they doe no evill yet accidentally they may and doe For the Sunne of it selfe being the purest of them all by drawing the vapours out of dunghills and other corrupt things causeth a noysome stench by accident But I intend not this Treatise for disputation If the Starres be pestilently bent against vs neither Arts nor Armes perfumes nor prayers can prevaile with them who haue neither pittie nor sense nor power to alter their appointed motion But He that commandeth their course and altereth them at his pleasure He that made the Sunne and Moone stand still for Iosuah yea drew the Sunne backe ten degrees for Hezekiah and caused the Starres to fight in their courses against Sisera He is able both to hinder and heale all Infections can arise from their Influences The cure of this cause therefore is the same with the former The third cause of the Pestilence is The corruption of the Aire Which corruption ariseth as well from sublinarie accidents as from the Influences of the Starres For noysome vapours arising from filthy sincks stincking sewers channells gutters privies sluttish corners dunghils and vncast ditches as also the mists and fogs that commonly arise out of fens moores mines and standing lakes doe greatly corrupt the Aire and in like manner the lying of dead rotting carrions in channels ditches and dunghills cause a contagious Aire As the Poet affirmeth Corpora foeda iacent vitiantur odoribus aurae And even without these vapours the Aire sometimes is corrupted by the vnseasonablenesse of the weather Quum tempestiva intempestivè redduntur as sayth Hippocrates when the weather is vnseasonable for the season of the yeare being hot when it should be cold moyst when it should be drie and contrarily These preposterous orders or rather disorders in the constitution of the Aire render it vnholesome and infectious And this is caused chiefly by the Aspects of the Planets and many times also by vnholesome Windes as especially the South winde who being of temperature moyst and warme fills the Aire with such a corrupt qualitie as is soone turned into putrefaction and many times doth easily transport a contagion from one coast to another Now for the Temperature of the Aire the whole streame of opinions runneth vpon hot and moyst as the fittest matter for infection because most apt to putrefaction So Hippocrates in the second of his Epidem saith that in Cranon a Cittie of Thessalie there arose putrid Vlcers Pustuls and Carbuncles through the hot and moyst constitution of the Aire And the same he vrgeth againe in the third Booke of the same Treatise And Galen in 1 de Temperam cap. 4. affirmeth that the hot and moyst constitution of the aire doth most of all breed pestilent Diseases And from these a multitude of later Writers haue learned to speak the same thing But for all this we know that the hot and dry weather also may cause a pestilent Aire And so saith Avenzoar in his third booke third tract and 1. chap. And Titus Livius in li. primo decad 4. recordeth that Rome was once infected with the Plague by a hot and drie distemper of the Aire And wee cannot forget what a hot dry parching Summer we had this last yeare most fit to be the vnfortunate forerunner of this yeares pestilence which now being seconded with such abundance of moyst weather all this Spring and Summer hitherto we may well doubt that a deluge of destruction is comming vpon vs. Hence we may see the misery of man that be the Aire never so corrupt he must draw it in with his breath continually for without it we cannot liue a moment for as meate and drinke are the nourishments of our bodies so is the Aire the nourishment of our Spirits As therefore by corrupt meats our bodies are corrupted and diseased so by corrupt Aire our Spirits are easily infected and soone extinguished Therefore we haue great cause to take heed that the Aire we draw be pure and wholesome And this may be effected two wayes either by flying into a good or by purifying the euill Aire The surest way to safetie is to flie from the impure into a pure Aire Those therefore that haue meanes and no speciall Calling to hinder them doe well to take hold of this counsell Which 1. Nature teacheth in giving Man two legs as well as two armes that if his enemy be too fierce for resistance he may escape by running Now Nature hath no worse enemy then Death nor Death a better 〈◊〉 then the Plague Secondly the holy Scripture teacheth it 〈…〉 verse Come my people enter into thy secret place shut thy dores about thee hide thy selfe as it were for a season vntill the indignation be over past So Pro. 22.3 The prudent man foreseeth the plague and hideth himselfe And David was this Prudent man for 1 Chron. 2â— last he durst not goe to the Tabernacle to offer at Gibeon because he feared the sword of the Angell And thirdly Physicke adviseth it For Hippocrates the Prince of Physitions in his Booke de Natura humana counselleth it in these words Providendum est vt quà m paucissimus Aeris influxus corpus ingrediatur et vt ille ipse quà m peregrinissimus existat Regionum etiam locos in quibus morbus consistit quantùm eius fieri potest permutare oportet By which he intendeth that a man must be carefull to let into his body as little Aire as can be possibly and that that Aire which he doth entertaine be a stranger to the Infected And this be interpreteth in the clause following where he saith He must as farre as he may change the place of the Region in which the Sicknesse raigneth for some other that is free from it And this is that which is meant by Citò Longè and Tardè Which Iordanus calleth an Antidote made of three Adverbs and thus versifieth vpon them Haec tria tabificam pellunt Adverbia Pestem Mòx longè Tardè cede recede redi I will be bold a little to Comment vpon these words in this wise Fly with speed from the infected place lest by a little lingering that infection which you would leaue behinde you goe along with you And nothing can be more dangerous then for one to travaile with his humors already corrupted by an infected Aire For with
the motion of his body those humors are stirred disturbed and heat which causeth them to putrefie presently by which putrefaction of the humors the vitall Spirits are instantly enflamed and infected and life it selfe soone extinguished Besides that in their going forth before they are gotten beyond the limits of the evill aire in the labouring of their body they fetch their breath oftener and deeper then at other times whereby they draw in a greater quantitie of the corrupt Aire to minister more matter to the putrefaction begun Therefore flie quickly and in flying goe softly till you be quite out of the contagious Aire And flie not a little way but many miles of whither there is no probabilitie of common trading or recourse of people from the place forsaken and where there are high hills betwixt you and the infected coast which may breake of those blasts of wind that would at somtimes blow that corrupted Aire from thence vpon you Moreover if you be able choose your habitation well and health-fully scituated A house is well scituated that stands on high ground farre from fennes moores marishes and mines having the dores and windows opening to the North and East not to the West for that is not wholsome nor by any meanes to the South for that being hot and moyst is most subiect to contagion in sickly times Let the house be large and the roomes many and spacious In hot weather open those windows that are toward the North in cold those that are to the East If there be dores or windows toward the other coasts keepe them for the most part very close shut In the night leaue no window open at all If the weather be moyst open your windows toward the good coasts two houres after Sunne-rising and let them not stand open aboue two houres space and so againe for two houres before Sunne-set Lastly be not hasty to returne so soone as you heare that the heat of the Contagion is abated but keepe away as long as any signe of the Sicknesse remaineth taking this for a sure rule That it is lesse danger to tarry still in the infected Aire then to come into it from that which is pure and wholesome for a fresh commer is aptest to catch the least contagion and the very reliques of infection are sufficient to kill him Learne therefore of the Wolues of Thracia who in Winter when the rivers are covered with ice will not venter over for their prey though they be never so hungry till they haue layd their eare close to the ice then if they heare no noyse of water vnder it they know the ice is thicke enough to beare them and over they goe otherwise not Let the space of three moneths passe vpon the last infected person in that quarter whither you desire to resort and let the house all that time and all the stuffe therein be throughly well aired and perfumed before you returne For the infection will cleaue to the walles and stuffe a long time and will hardly be purged out of them especially garments and bedding if they haue beene vsed by the sicke of the Plague Woolen cloaths will retaine the infection three or foure yeares except they be well and throughly aired Blankets Coverlets and Ruggs must haue much airing before they may be trusted Furres also retaine it long and it is hardly gotten out of them as appeareth by a story which Fracastorius telleth of a Furred Govvne that was the death of fiue and twentie men in Verona in the yeare 1511. who one after the other wore it thinking they had still aired it sufficiently Featherbeds will remaine seaven yeares infected if Alexander Benedictus may be beleeved and these are best to be purged by opening the Tikes and spreading the feathers abroad very thin perfuming them very often and ever as they are airing let them be turned with staues or stickes and let this be so done for many dayes together As for Mattrises Mats and such like it is best that they be burnt for that is the surest way to free them from infection But now Some men cannot and some must not flie Some through povertie and want of friends in the Countrey or by reason of the dependance of their living vpon the Towne infected cannot leaue it Others whose calling and learning hath set them apart for the common good must not goe As Maiestrates and other officers who are called to see the peace and good orders kept Ministers that haue pastorall Charges and are commanded of GOD to preach in season and out of season and to administer the Sacramēts to those which are able to repaire to the church Also Physitians Chyrurgians Apothecaries Midwifes Keepers and Searchers whose callings are to be helpfull to the sicke and weake though not of the Plague yet of other griefes they ought at least a convenient number of them for the number of people remaining to tarry and follow those Christian employments which they haue vndertaken not for their owne benefit only but for the Common-wealth chiefly Such therefore as must tarry let them obserue these rules following First flie from company and be contented to liue as solitarily as your calling and buisinesse will giue leaue Let those that come to speake with you come no nearer you then they must needs and if you stand to talke with another be distant from him the space of two yards But if you suspect the party to haue the infection let the space of foure yards at the least part you Let the sound man be carefull also to giue the other the winde that is so to stand that the winde may blow from the sound to the suspected and not contrarily and let the sound man turne away his face from him holding and champing also some fit thing in his mouth and smelling to some odour all the while he is in discourse with the other or neare vnto him which things in particular I will prescribe hereafter Shunne all places that are moyst and wet In Summer keepe you temperate but alwayes drie in Winter keepe warme and as much as you can neare the fire At all times avoyd all close alleys and lanes especially to lodge in them or neare common sewers ditches or such like noysome places And keepe out of crowds and assemblies of people as much as you may Dwell not in an house that is pestred with much company in little roome It is good also for those that are able to shift beds and chambers often airing them every day When the Aire is cloudy thicke moyst or misty goe not forth but vpon necessitie and in such weather keepe the dores and windows shut Walke not abroad in the morning if you can choose till two houres after Sunne rising nor at all after Sunne-set vnlesse vrgent occasion enforce And in the heat of the Sunne in Summer especially about noone tarry not abroad neither sit stand nor walke in the heat of the same In
a place of no danger and with very little losse of blood died presently with the very feare of being killed But I should be too tedious if I should reckon vp more examples Now if these Passions could be so deadly in pure Aires and holsome seasons how much more thinke we are they pernicious in pestilentiall times But in respect of Contagion there is no Passion so dangerous as Feare For by it the Spirits are enforced to retire inward to the heart to guard that Prince of life from the danger feared By this retiring they leaue the outward parts infirme as appeareth plainely by the palenesse trembling of one in great feare So that the walls being forsaken which are continually besieged by the contagious Aire in come the enemies without resistance the Spirits which are the Souldiers that should repell them having cowardly sounded a Retrait And hereby there is not onely way made for the evill Aire to enter but also the Spirits wherein is all our heat being all drawne inward doe draw in such vapours after them as are about the body even as the Sunne draweth towards it the vapours of the earth And here-hence it is that Feare brings Infection faster and sooner then any other occasion Now for Remedie against these Passions we must know that they are diseases of the Soule and the cure of them belongeth chiefly to Divines They are the Phisitians to deale inwardly with these diseases To purge out the Loue of this World and the distrust of Gods Providence and Mercies as also to minister the Cordialls of Faith Hope Patience Contentednesse c. and to ordaine the strict diet of holy Exercises a good Conversation and Walking with God Wee that are Phisitians to the Body are but Chirurgians to the Soule wee can but talke of Topicall remedies as to apply Mirth Musicke good Company and lawfull Recreations such as may take away all time and occasions for carefull thoughts and passionate affections Thus haue I brought you through that part of the Definition wherein are the Causes of the Plague discovered Now we are to lay open the Qualities of it described before in the Definition thus Which at the very first Striketh to the Heart is Venomous Deadly and Infectious At the very first it striketh to the Heart Therefore it is called Morbus Cordis A disease of the Heart And that this is first stricken is apparent by this that at the first infection the vitall facultie sinkes and languishes the whole strength of the Body is suddainly turned to weaknesse the vitall Spirits are greatly oppressed and discouraged Whereas the Animall facultie commonly remaineth for a while in good plight and perfect in the vse of sense vnderstanding iudgement memorie and motion The Naturall facultie also is not so presently hurt but there is concoction and all other actions performed by the liver stomach reyns guts bladder and other parts as Nature requireth Though indeed in a little time these and the brayne also are overcome as appeareth by the Symptoms that follow as Lethargies Frenzies Vomitings Fluxes c. That it is Venomous is graunted of all both Physitians and Philosophers And it is apparent by his secret and insensible insinuation of himselfe into the vitall Spirits to which as soone as he is gotten he shews himselfe a mortall enemie with suddain violence choking and extinguishing them Therefore his subtle entrance his sly crueltie his swift destroying the vnfaithfulnesse of his Crisis and other Prognosticke Signes and the vehemencie grievousnesse and ill behaviour of his Symptoms are manifest proofes of his venomous Qualitie For in this disease the Seidge Vrine and Sweat haue an abhominable savour the Breath is vile and noysome evill coloured Spots Pustles Blisters Swellings and Vlcers full of filthy matter arise in the outward parts of the body such as no superfluitie or sharpnesse of humors nor no putrefaction of matter without a venomous qualitie ioyned with it can possibly produce It is Deadly This needs no proofe the weekly Bills argue it and our owne eyes witnesse it while we see continuall Burialls and some die in the very streets and while we finde also that few of those that are stricken doe recover againe But that It is Infectious is among many of the common ignorant sort more disputable then among the learned Yet is it apparent enough by much experience For Garments and Houshold-stuffe haue beene infected and haue infected many as I haue shewed alreadie in the examples of a Gowne and a Feather-bed Now though this Infection be not apparent to sense as indeed the deadliest Poysons haue neither taste nor smell yet their lurking qualitie may be plainely demonstrated by such as are sensible For we know that garments will a long time retaine any strong or sweete sent wherewith they haue beene fumed or with which they haue beene layd vp now the Sent is meerely a qualitie and his substance is the Aire which is the vehiculum or seat of the Sent wherein it is carried by which it is made permanent Other experiences we haue also as liue Pageons being laid to the soares are taken away dead having not beene wounded crushed nor hurt by any hand at all And lastly many that are infected can directly tell where and of whom they tooke it But say some againe then why is not one infected as well as another I haue eaten and drunke and lyen with them that haue had it and the soares running on them And yet I was not infected I say they haue the more cause to magnifie the Mercy of God to their particular and not to obscure it by saying it is not infectious This argument is not vnlike that of the Mountebanks who tell you that such and such haue beene cured by his Medicines but conceales how many haue died by the misapplication If one should aske this man I pray you how many haue so conversed with the infected and haue so escaped I am sure they cannot name one of twentie Yea but sayth Another I hold the Plague to be nothing els but the very Influence of the Striking Angell sent of God to destroy here one and there another as Hee hath particularly fore-poynted them out Such kindes of Plagues indeed we reade of in sacred Scripture as Exod. 12. Numb 11. v. 33. Numb 16. Numb 25. and 2 Sam. 24. But there is great difference betwixt those Plagues and these of ours For in those Great multitudes suddainly and all at once as one would say in a very short space of time were both smitten and slaine The longest time of Striking being but three dayes namely that for Davids numbering the people In those plagues therefore the cause was onely supernaturall for there was no time allowed for corruption and putrefaction of the Aire But in these of ours and in very many moe in all Countreys and Kingdomes and in all Ages of the World there hath beene sufficient time
to breed and increase the Contagion in the Aire in which time of breeding also the antient naturall observations haue beene found true from age to age for many noysome things haue apparently discovered themselues as fruits of the Aires putrefaction and Prognosticks of the Plague threatened And when it hath begun it spreads but by degrees first striking one man onely then two or three after that a few more and so multiplying the succeeding number as it evidently groweth more contagious by the number of bodies already infected Besides those Plagues before mentioned doe discover a stroke but no sicknesse but that of Hezekiah discovered a sicknesse and no stroke of any Angell For it is plainly sayd that Hezekiah was sicke Isaiah 38. And that his sicknesse was the Plague appeares by the Soare which was vpon him and the Medicine by which that soare was cured This to the reasonable is reason sufficient But ere I part with this Poynt of Infection I thinke it good to discover what bodies are most or least apt to be Infected And to finde this we must first know that bodies are infected two wayes first from without in regard of the Aire and secondly from within in respect of the present state of the bodie From Without those are most subiect to it who haue thin bodies and open pores and whose hearts are so hot that they need much attraction of Aire to coole them From Within they are most apt whose veyns and vessells are full of grosse humors and corrupt iuices the evill matter being thicke and therefore cannot breath out through the pores increaseth her putrefaction by the heat within vnto the greater malignitie and so becommeth Pestilent Therefore those bodies that are moyst and full of iuice whose veines are streit and therefore apter to intercept then intertaine the iuices and the thicknesse of whose skin denies the transpiration of the excrements these are easily poluted and infected And such are Women especially women with childe for their bodies are full of excrementitious iuices much heat withall which is as oyle and flame put together Also those that are very Costiue or haue their water stopped the noysome vapours that are by these excrements ingendered make the body subiect to infection Young children in regard of their tender and soft bodies are apt to admit of any alteration vpon the lightest occasion and because they fetch their breath short having but little roome for respiration they draw in much Aire with which the seed of Contagion is attracted and so are apt to be infected from without And likewise because they are naturally moyst and feed vpon the moyster kindes of meates and feed also with more appetite then iudgement they are therefore the more subiect to pestilent infection from within Likewise the sanguine and delicate faire complexion whose bloud and iuices are finer and thinner then others and therefore more subiect to mutation are quickly infected for the Plague is able to insinuate it selfe into all the humors but into some more easily then others as into Bloud first Choler next Fleam after and Melancholie last Poore People by reason of their great want living sluttishly feeding nastily on offals or the worst vnholsomest meates and many times too long lacking food altogether haue both their bodies much corrupted and their Spirits exceedingly weakened whereby they become of all others most subiect to this Sicknesse And therefore we see the Plague sweeps vp such people in greatest heapes Indeed in regard of the Aire the rich are as subiect as they for both breath the same and delicacie of feeding makes the rich as apt to corruption But then they haue meanes to get holsome food good attendance and precious Antidotes to preserue them for we see by experience that ordinary things doe little prevaile And this is the reason also why fewest of the Rich doe die of the Plague Great Eaters and Drinkers who can never be free from crudities as also Luxurious idle livers and Whore hunters who spend the strength of their bodies prodigally are very apt to be infected Also such as in former times haue had customary evacuations by sweat haemorrhoids vomitings menstrua fontanells or other like wayes of expelling noxious humors and haue them now stopped Those likewise that fast much their bodies being emptie receiue more Aire in then they let out Those also that are Fearefull as I haue alreadie shewed in the point of Passions Furthermore nearenesse of bloud or kindred by reason of the sympathy of natures maketh men very apt to receiue infection from one of their owne bloud And so those that are neare the sicke in body being continually conversant with them or often comming about them as Chirurgians Keepers Searchers and such like Lastly Virgins that are ripe and marriageable are apt to receiue infection and being once stricken seldome or never escape without great and precious meanes Quia spirituosum semen in motu cum sit facilè succenditur vel quia intùs detentum facilè corrumpitur in veneni perniciem abit Mindererus de Pestilentia cap. 10. But some thinke by the strength of Nature to prevaile against against this infection But wee see strong and well nourished bodies die as fast as others and that not because it is safer to be weake but as Hippocrates sayth Corpora impura quò magis aluntur eò magis laeduntur Their taking of the infection proues their body to be impure though strong and the more an impure body is nourished the more it is endangered But those are most likely to escape Infection that are troubled with the Gout in whom the nobler parts of the body doe expell the noxious humors to the ignobler Those that haue Fontanells or any other kinde of issue as vlcers haemorrhoids or plentie of other evacuations whereby the hurtfull humors are drayned away Olde folkes whose bodies are dry and cold Also bold and confident Spirits whose courage can resist all feares are to themselues an Antidote if their body be withall kept cleane and pure by the common rules of preservation Lastly those who keepe themselues private and vse Antidotes and meanes preservatiue reposing themselues in God with David in the fourth Psalme and last verse He will giue his Angells charge over them to keepe them in all their wayes c. Psal 91.5.6.7 and 3. verses But they must then walke in the Way that God hath set before them and that is the vse of Physicke For The Lord hath created Medicines out of the Earth and he that is wise will not abhorre them Ecclus. 38.4 And with such doth he heale men and take away their paynes vers 7. And in the sixt verse He hath given men skill that he might be honoured in his marveilous workes Then forsake not the Physitian neither by thy scorning of his skill force him to forsake thee for as St Paul said of the Marriners in his Ship Acts. 27.31 so may I say of Physitians in