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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A59949	The charitable pestmaster, or, The cure of the plague conteining a few short and necessary instructions how to preserve the body from infection of the plagve as also to cure those that are infected : together with a little treatise concerning the cure of the small pox : published for the benefit of the poore of this city and not unmeet for the rich / by Thomas Shervvood ...	Sherwood, Thomas, Practitioner in physick.	1641 (1641)	Wing S3416; ESTC R6113	9,551	23

that begin to amend of themselves THose that are infected with the Pestilence in the beginning or first day thereof are taken with an extraordinary cold outwardly and a burning heate inwardly a great paine and girding about the stomacke a sluggishnesse and drousinesse of the whole body a losse of appetite a bitternesse in the throat with a desire to vomit sometimes they do vomit The disease continuing unto the second and third day the heate breaketh outwardly stronger and stronger so that there followeth a great paine in the head and a difficulty of breathing superfluous sleeps and sometimes superfluous watchings they grow frantike and light-headed and they looke very staringly And if there doth any swelling appear under the eares armes cheeks or groines and that these signes aforenamed doe begin to cease Then shall the sick recover immediatly without any medicine onely give him a plaster or pultesse to ripen the tumour which must be applyed the next day after the swelling appeareth but give him nothing inwardly except it be a warme Caudle or Ale-brue or Broth for for if you give him a vomit or purge you shall strike the swelling into the noble parts and the sick shall be in danger of his life and if you let him bloud you shall draw the venemous humour from the Soare into the veins and disperse it with the bloud through the whole body and thereby destroy the health of the patient and shorten his life as it came to passe with a good friend of mine Also if you give him any medicine to provoke sweat you shall restore the Fever again and so the sicke shall die without redemption yea and more miserably then those that never amended unlesse God be more mercifull unto him whereof I have had a sorrowfull experience Therefore bee carefull that you doe not tamper with those that do begin to amend for those very Medicines that are excellently available against any Fevers in the beginning or encrease of them being given in the declination or recovery will bring the patient into a Relapse which is worse then the former disease and which shall greatly endanger life For how many have died by the unseasonable taking of Treacle Mithridate and other good Medicines Wherefore I have often said that a skilfull Physician by watching his time shall doe more with à cup of warme drinke in the cure of the Plague or any Fever then the ignorant shall do with all the excellent Medicines that are in the Apothecaries Shop Now if the rising doe appear that the symptoms or signes aforenamed doe not begin to cease but rather encrease Then shortly after there will appeare some blains or spots so death ensueth unlesse you draw ten or twelve ounces of bloud according to the strength of the sick from the liver or middle vein of the arme on that side where the rising is But if so be that the sicknesse continueth unto the third and fourth day and the symptomes remaine in their full vigour then shortly will the spots come forth and then I know no medicine that can deliver from death except God be more mercifull to the sick But only on the third day before the spots appear it shall be greatly available to give him one of the cordial sweats prescribed in the ensuing Chapter CHAP. 3. 1 Here are prescribed certain approved remedies for the cure of the Pestilence 2 The order and manner how to use them WHosoever shal perceive their bodies infected with the Plague let them take on the first day of the sicknesse the vomit in that order and manner as it is laid down in the first Chapter And after it hath done working with them they shal find themselves as well as ever they were in their lives for it clenseth the stomack and bowels from al corrupt humours which is one of the chiefest causes of the sicknes But if the sick be weak and cannot bear a vomit it shall be good to give him one dram of the foresaid pillulae pestilentiales or instead thereof one dram of Aloes you may give it either in pill or in potion according as the sick can best take it and in the workking of it let him drink some warm broth But if it be so that this course hath been neglected the first day or beyond the time of 24 houres it will bee in vaine to use it the second day Yea it will bee dangerous seeing that the infection is dispersed by the bloud throughout all the Veines of the bodie Therefore on the second day of Visitation it shall bee good to draw from the Median Veine of the arme so much bloud as the patient can endure to bleed and if the sicke hath not gone to the stoole during the time of his sicknesse you shall give him either before or after bleeding this Clyster Take of Beets Violet leaves Burrage Buglosse Scabios of each one handfull French barley one ounce boyle all these in a sufficient quantitie of water untill it be halfe consumed then strain it and take three quarters of a pint of the decoction and put to it of the Electuary of Hierapicra five or sixe drams oile of Rue one dram red Sugar one ounce the yolk of an egge and a little salt so make you a Clyster thereof and administer it bloud warme Also you may administer to the sick this Clyster Boyle an handfull of Rue in a pint of posset drinke and put to it a piece of sweet butter a little honey the yolke of an egge and a thimble full of salt make a clyster and administer it bloud warme But if that the sick amend not upon this course taken the second day or that this means hath not been used but that hee continueth sick untill the third and fourth day so that the infection hath taken hold of the vitall spirits Then keeping him warme in his bed you shall use this Cordiall to sweat with all Take of the water of Scabios Burrage Buglosse and Angelica of each halfe an ounce the Electuary of egges two scruples or one dram of Bole Armoniak one scruple Syrrup of Roses halfe an ounce make it into a potion and let the sick drink it up at once or twice two or three spoonfuls hereof is sufficient for a child Or the poorer sort may take two peny-worth of Treacle or Mithridate in a quarter of a pint of Dragon water With either of these Medicines you may sweat the sick untill some tumour doth appeare or that he commeth to know himselfe amended For this is the last medicinall refuge we have in the cure of the Plague If you can keep the sick from drinking and sleeping for the space of three houres untill the medicine hath done workking But if you cannot let the patient drinke a little Limon posset made with some Marigold flowers and Harts horn And if signes of amendment doe appeare doe not take him out of his bed or let him coole suddenly But let him sweat on gently of his