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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08913	A treatise of the plague contayning the causes, signes, symptomes, prognosticks, and cure thereof. Together with sundry other remarkable passages (for the prevention of, and preservation from the pestilence) never yet published by anie man. Collected out of the workes of the no lesse learned than experimented and renowned chirurgian Ambrose Parey.	Paré, Ambroise, 1510?-1590. aut; Johnson, Thomas, d. 1644.	1630 (1630)	STC 19192; ESTC S103146	56,219	88

Pestilence commeth of the Aire therefore so soone as one is blasted with the pestiferous Aire after he hath taken some preseruatiue against the malignitie thereof he must withdraw himselfe into some wholesome Aire that is cleane and pure from any venomous Infection or Contagion for there is great hope of health by the alteration of the Aire for we doe most frequently and aboundantly draw in the Aire of all things so that we cannot want it for a minute of time therefore of the Aire that is drawne in dependeth the correction amendment or increase of the Poyson or malignitie that is receiued as the Aire is pure sincere or corrupted There be some that doe thinke it good to shut the Patient in a cloase Chamber shutting the Windowes to prohibite the entrance of the Aire as much as they are able But I thinke it more conuenient that those Windowes should be open from whence that Wind bloweth that is directly contrarie vnto that which brought in the venomous Aire For although there be no other cause yet if the Aire be not moued or agitated but shut vp in a cloase place it will soone be corrupted Therefore in a cloase and quiet place that is not subiect to the entrance of the Aire I would wish the Patient to make Wind or to procure Aire with a thicke and great Cloath dipped or macerated in Water and Vineger mixt together and tyed to a long Staffe that by tossing it vp and downe the cloase Chamber the Wind or Aire thereof may coole and recreate the Patient The Patient must euerie day be carryed into a fresh Chamber and the Beds and the Linnen Cloathes must be changed There must alwayes be a cleere and bright Fire in the Patients Chamber and especially in the night whereby the Aire may be made more pure cleane and voyd of nightly vapours and of the filthy and pestilent breath proceeding from the Patient or his Excrements In the meane time least if it be in hot weather the Patient should be weakned or made more faint by reason that the heat of the Fire doth disperse and wast his Spirits the Floore or Ground of the Chamber must be sprinkled or watered with Vineger and Water or strowed with the branches of Vines made moyst in cold Water with the Leaues and Flowers of Water Lillyes or Poplar or such like In the feruent heat of Summer he must abstaine from strong Fumigations that do smell too strongly because that by assaulting the Head they increase the paine If the Patient could goe to that cost it were good to hang all the Chamber where he lyeth and also the Bed with thicke or coarse Linnen Cloathes moysted in Vineger and Water of Roses Those Linnen Cloathes ought not to be verie white but some-thing browne because much and great whitenesse doth disperse the sight and by wasting the Spirits doth increase the paine of the Head for which cause also the Chamber ought not to be verie lightsome Contrariwise on the night season there ought to be Fiers and Perfumes made which by their moderate light may moderately call forth the Spirits Sweet Fiers may be made of little peeces of the Wood of Iuniper Broome Ash Tamarisk of the Rind of Oranges Lemmons Cloues Benzoin Gumme Arabicke Orris Roots Myrrhe grossely beaten together and layd on the burning Coales put into a Chasing Dish Truly the breath or smoake of the Wood or Berries of Iuniper is thought to driue Serpents a great way from the place where it is burnt The vertue of the Ash Tree against venome is so great as Pliny testifieth that a Serpent will not come vnder the shaddow thereof no not in the morning nor euening when the shaddow of any thing is most great and long but she will run from it I my selfe haue proued that if a circle or compasse be made with the Boughes of an Ash Tree and a Fier made in the middest thereof and a Serpent put within the compasse of the Boughes that the Serpent will rather run into the Fier then thorow the Ashes Boughes There is also another meanes to correct the Aire You may sprinkle Vineger of the decoction of Rue Sage Rosemary Bay Berries Iuniper Berries Cyperus Nuts and such like on Stones or Brickes made red hot and put in a Pot or Pan that all the whole Chamber where the Patient lyeth may be perfumed with the vapour thereof Also Fumigations may be made of some matter that is more grosse and clammy that by the force of the Fire the sume may continue the longer as are Ladanum Myrrhe Masticke Rosine Turpentine Storax Olibanum Benzoin Bay Berries Iuniper Berries Cloues Sage Rosemary and Marioram stamped together and such like Those that are rich and wealthy may haue Candles and Fumes made of Wax or Tallow mixed with some sweet things A Spong macerated in Vinegar of Roses and Water of the same and a little of the decoction of Cloues and of Camphire added thereto ought alwayes to be ready at the Patients hand that by often smelling vnto it the Animall Spirits may be recreated and strengthened The Water following is very effectuall for this matter Take of Orris fourÄ— Ounces of Zedoarie Spikenard of each sixe Drammes of Storax Benzoin Cynamon Nutmegs Cloues of each one Ounce and a halfe of old Treacle halfe an Ounce Bruise them into a grosse Powder and macerate them for the space of twelue houres in 4 pound of white and strong Wine then distill them in a Limbecke of Glasse on hoat Ashes and in the distilled Liquor wet a Spong and then let it be tyed in a Linnen Cloath or closed in a Box and so often put vnto the Nose-thrils Or take of the Vineger and Water of Roses of each foure Ounces of Camphire six Graines of Treacle halfe a Dramme let them be dissolued together and put into a Viall of Glasse which the Patient may often put vnto his Nose This Nodula following is more meet for this matter Take of Rose Leaues two Pugils of Orris halfe an Ounce of Calamus Aromaticus Cynnamon Cloues of each two Drammes of Storax and Benzoin of each one Dramme and a halfe of Cyperus halfe a Dramme beat them into a grosse Powder make thereof a Nodula betweene two peeces of Cambricke or Lawne of the bignesse of an Hand Ball then let it be moystned in 8 Ounces of Rose Water and two Ounces of Rose Vineger and let the Patient smell vnto it often These things must be varied according to the time For in the Summer you must vse neither Muske nor Ciuet nor such like hot things and moreouer women that are subiect to fits of the Mother those that haue Feauers or the Head ach ought not to vse those things that are so strong smelling hot but you must make choise of things more gentle Therefore things that are made with a little Camphire and Cloues bruised and macerated together in Rose Water and Vineger of Roses shall be sufficient CHAP. XIII What Dyet ought to