these swéet mints time penerial carnatiōs roseleaues and let your chamber bee strued with gréene rushes Vine leaues Oken leaues and Willow leaues Mintes If you haue any windowes towards the North or northeast kéep them open in cléere daies your chamber ought also to bee persumed oftentimes with the perfumes taught in this book you may vse Iuniper Beniamin Storax and wood of Aloes For your diet Yong Mutton Veale Kid Capors Hennes Chickens Rabbets Partridge Fesant Quaile Plouers small birdes of the fields Pigeons swéete butter potched egges with vinegar but not in hot complexions Water-fowles are not good neither is Porke or olde powdred Béefe But Fishes from fresh riuers is very good eaten with vinegar and good sauce they coole the bloud well Let your drinke bée small béere and well brued and sometimes a cup of white wine mixed with water for hot complexions with Borrage and Buglosse but eschew all hot and swéet wines Herbes that be good to bée vsed Sorrel Endiue Succorie Borage Buglosse Parsely Marigoldes Time Marierom Betonie Scabious Isope Mints Purslane Pimpernell Rue Angelica Cardus Benedictus Lettuce Make your sauce with Cytrin Limons Oreng Sorrell Vinegar Maces Saffron Barberies and such like Raw yong fruit is hurtful so is Garlick Onions Léekes Radish Rocket Mustarde Pepper and hot spices and al hot wines and all these are hurtfull so are al swéet meates let your diet be cooling drying Preseruatiues for the Commons and Contrymen who haue not an Apothecarie at hand Take of Rue or Herbe grace two ounces of the yong buds of Angelica two ounces or for want therof of the roote or séede one ounce Bolearmoniacke prepared one ounce of Iuniper berries one ounce of walnuts cleane picked from their skins two ounces Good figges in number sixe or seuen of Saffron sixe peniworth of good wine vinegar that is sharpe foure ounces Let these be well beaten together in a morter the space of one houre and then put in your vinegar and incorporate them together Which being done put it into some swéete gallie pot or glasse and couer it close and take thereof daily in the morning the quantitie of a nutineg Or you may eate thereof at anie time going néere or in any infectious place Another good preseruatiue of no lesse vertue in resisting all infection R. Of holy Thistle or for want thereof our Ladies Thistle so called Betonie Angelica Scabious Sorrell Pimpernell Turmentill of either of these a handfull Gentian roots also if they may be had Bruise all these in a stone morter a little and put thereto a pinte of good vinegar and halfe a pinte of white wine and put them into a still and draw forth the water and take two or thrée spoonfuls thereof euerie morning fasting and be frée from all infection The roote of Angelica laid or stieped in good vinegar all night and a little thereof taken in the morning is a good preseruatiue The séedes are of the like vertue Another good preseruatiue that defendeth all from infection Take of the kernels of walnuts three ounces rue one ounce and a halfe fine bole armoniack one ounce root of Angelica Turmentill of either an ounce good figs three ounces Myrrhe three drams Saffron foure peniworth Let these be beaten a good space in a morter then put thereto two or thrée spoonefuls of good vnegar and as much Rosewater and incorporate them well together eate hereof as much as a hazell nut in the morning and at anie other time of the day going where the infection is and bee frée from all infection Now such as desire to liue in safety and yet would bestow no cost for their preseruatiō let them vse this R. Figges seuen or eight in number Rue one handfull the kernels of ten or twelue walnuts cleane picked from their skinnes foure or sixe spoonfuls of good vinegar beat these together in a morter and keepe it close in a boxe and eate thereof euery morning and it is good to defend thee from the infection Galen commendeth Garlicke calling it the poore mans treacle but vndoubtedly it is too hote to be eaten of cholericke persons or sanguine or in a hote season and therefore I cannot commend it except in cold moist and rheumaticke bodies for whom it may be good I haue set downe curteous Reader diuers and sundry preseruatiues that you may take your choise vse them in the name of God And this I dare boldly affirme there are in my book as good as are known and sufficient for thy preseruation by Gods grace Now it followeth that I write of confections electuaries and potions required in the cure of the pestilence An Electuarie of great and singular vertue in curing of the pestilence being taken in time before it be setled at the heart and nature vtterly ouer come R. Bolearmoniack prepared two ounces terra sigillata one ounce Myrrhe sixe drams rootes of Gentian Zedoary Angelica and Dictamni of each three drams red corrall red saunders of each a dram and a half saffron one dram a half yellow saunders one dram turmētil scabious leaues of Cardus benedictus or holy thistle of each a dram a halfe flowers of marigolds one dramme the bones of a Harts heart halfe a dramme or two scruples Basill seede halfe a dram good seed pearle two scruples vnicornes horne two scruples leafe gold two scruples harts horne one dram Let all these be made in fine powder euery one by itself Thē take sirrup of Limons and sorrell as much as will be sufficient to make it in an electuarie Adde hereunto good Mithridatum one ounce He that is infected with the pestilence let him take one dram or one dram and a halfe of this medicine according to his strength with water of Scabious Angelica or Cardus benedictus the quantitie of nine or ten spoonefuls it must be taken warme and procure the patient to sweate after two thrée or foure houres which if he cannot easily doe then vse the meanes as I haue taught in this booke by putting in of bottles fild with hot water if it should so chance the patient should vomit then giue him as much more and if he vomit againe let him wash his mouth with Rose water and vinegar and receiue his medicine againe the quantitie before taught and vndoubtedly by this meanes the venemous infection shal be expulsed the heart comforted and the life preserued through Gods mercie and goodnes Another Electuary curing the pestilence being taken within twelue sixteene or eighteene houres after the person is infected Electuarium de ouo R. Ouum gallinae recens educto per apicem albumine id quod vacuum est croco orientali imple vitellum non auferendo postea cum alio putamine iterum occlude ne quid transpiret lento igne tamdiu assa in ollula donec tota oui testa ad nigredinem deueniat exempta è testa materia exsiccetur vt in mortario exquitissimè contundi in
euery morning some good preseruatiue And aboue all let them take héede of the aire or breath of the sore when it is opened alway holding some roote of Angelica stieped in vinegar in their mouth or some other strong and good preseruatiue and let them eate sometimes a little good mithridatum or anie one of the confections preseruatiue set downe in this booke against the pestilence and also let the kéeper take héede how to bestowe the plaisters that come from the sore Well now remember what I haue said ought to be done in this cure of the pestilence First that with all spéede you vse remedy without delaying the time for therein chiefly consisteth the danger Secondly that you bléed if no cause forbid it as afore is taught Thirdly that you take one of the medicines before set downe in this booke and sweate therewithall and refraine from sléepe Fourthly that you vse the cordials to comfort the heart set downe and that you eat of them oftentimes in the day Fiftly that if the patient be faint you must vse the Epithymum and cpithymate the heart therewith Sixtly that if the sore or botch appeare and rise néere vnto the heart that then you vse vpon the heart a defensitiue and with spéede drawe the botch further off The seuenth obseruation is that with spéede you apply medicines to suppurate the sore and drawe it forth The eight is that the chamber be oftentimes perfumed that the aire thereof may be purged and made holsome and that the patient change his chamber oftentimes The ninth is that he vse the diet before taught eating a little at a time and the oftner And to vse the sirrups and consections to coole and comfort The tenth which should haue béene the first is that the patient in anie case be kept from sléepe from his first sickening vntill he haue taken his medicine and sweat and sire or eight houres after and then to sléepe but one houre and the next day let him sléepe thrée houres at times but not aboue one houre at a time and after the third day you may giue him more sléepe But in the beginning of his sicknes it is most dangerous for by sléepe the spirits are drawne inward and therewithall the venome is attracted vnto the heart and also the feuer made more vehement and sharpe And this is the cause that many die that might liue if they were kept from sléepe and therewithall take some good medicine The eleuenth is that the patient kéepe his chamber during the time of his sicknes and refraine all companie that he hurt not others The twelfth is that being well he giue humble thanks to God and then let him change his apparell being well perfumed and in the name of God goe abroade And if the botch arise néere vnto the heart then before you sweate it were good to apply this defensitiue vnto the heart being thinne spread vpon a fine cloth as broad as wil couer the heart R. Good Mithridatum one dram Andromachus treacle halfe a dram red saunders terra lemna halfe a scruple with water of Roses and vinegar as much as will suffice make it in forme of an vnguent in a morter A good Cordial comforting the heart and cooling to be vsed after the patient hath sweat or purged and oftentimes in the day to take of it as much as a good hazell nut at a time R. Conserues of Roses Borage and Buglosse of each one ounce Diamargariton frigidum Diarrhodon abbatis of each halfe an ounce seedes of Citrons two scruples or a dram Manus christi three drams fol. auri number 6. bolearmoniack prepared two scruples Mixe them and let the sicke eate hereof many times in the day A good potion giuing fiue or sixe stooles gently which purgeth venemous filthy humours from the bodie to be taken the third day after sweat if no sore or botch appeare or when a sore or botch hath runne and is growing well then is it good to vse this R. Flo. fol. Card. benedict one handfull fol. Scabi Betonicae one handful root of Gentian one dram good Rubarb one dram water of Buglosse Scabious Borage of ech an ounce let there be made an infusion therof Then adde vnto it Diacatholicō halfe an ounce Cassia with Manna halfe an ounce sirrupe of Roses solutiue one ounce misce This ought to be taken in the morning and neither eate drinke nor sléepe vntill it hath wrought his effect in giuing fiue sixe or seuen stooles and vse your selfe as is before taught in purging Another good Cordiall greatly comforting the patient after his sweate to be eaten oftentimes a little at a time and to continue the vse thereof three or foure dayes vntill he be strong and all danger past or in his sweate a little if he be weake faint and apt to swoune R. Conserues of Roses Borage and Buglosse of each half an ounce spe Diagem cal frig of each one scrup bolearmoniack prepared two scruples spe diamargarit cal frig of each one scruple diarrhodon abba halfe an ounce sirrupe of limons and sorrell of ech halfe an ounce misce Within two howers after the patient hath sweat giue him a little good broth made of a chicken or capon and let him eate a little at a time and the oftner according vnto his strength and stomacke and let him be of good comfort and eschew all feare doubt fixing his hope aboue in the Almightie from whom commeth all helpe and comfort Let his meat be chickens or some light and good nourishing meate as young pullets capons partridge rabbets or such like but for want of these young mutton or veale and let it be giuen him with sauce made with an orenge a limon and a little good vinegre with mace and Saffron and make vnto all his meate these coole and sharpe sauces and vse no hote spices neither strong wines in anie wise Let his drinke be middle ale cleane brewed and well boyled with maces and sugar also you ought to keepe him from sléepe the first day vntill it be toward night then let him rest in Gods name one houre And if the patient be verie drie and thirsty as most commonly they are then giue him of this Iulep thrée or foure spoonefuls at a time to drinke R. Water of Roses Endiue and Buglosse of each three ounces sorrell water foure ounces good vinegar foure ounces iuice of limons foure ounces sugar one pound boyle them a little ouer a soft fire which done and cooled againe giue him a little thereof to drinke the quantity of two or three spoonefuls at a time Also a ptisan made with barley liquorice and coole hearbes is good to asswage his thirst But vse this which I do most commend for the asswaging of thirst and drinesse R. Sirrupe of Endiue comp sir of sorrell of ech three ounces Water of Roses and Buglosse of ech one ounce sirrup of limons two
ounces mixe them Let the patient haue sometimes or as often as hée is drie one spoonefull of this sirrupe which is verie good and this shall suffice for the amending of his heate and drinesse Giue him to eate sometimes of a limon with sugar or of a Pomgranate which are both verie good Or this asswageth and taketh away all thirst and drinesse in this case R. Water of Roses and buglosse of ech three ounces sirrupe of Endiue and limons of each two ounces oile of Vitrioll one scruple Mixc them The taking of this one spoonefull at a time taketh away drinesse and thirst And if the patient be verie faint and weake after his sweating or before his sweating then apply this quilt vpon the region of the heart and let him weare it continually for a while A Quilt for comforting and strengthening the heart when the patient is weake to be worne after his sweating R. Flowers of water lillies borage and buglosse of each halfe a dramme red Rose leaues one dram flowers of balme rosemaric of each two drams maces one dram ofred and yellowe saunders of each one dramme wood of aloes cloues of each one dram seeds of citrons iuniper berries of each one dram saffron sixe graines of the bone of the Deeres heart one scruple Let them bee made in grosse powder quilt it in crimson or scarlet coloured taffeta or fine cloth This quilt being made by the Apothecarie vse it ouer or vpon the heart of the sicke in such manner as it may avide without falling away An Epithymum that doth much comfort the heart when a person is weake R. Water of Roses borage and buglosse of either three ounces vinegar one ounce forrell water two ounces wood of aloes red saunders barkes of citrons of euery one of them two drams saffron sixe graines Electuarium de gemmis one dram Diamargariton two scruples Mixe them together and make an Epithymum A little of this must bee made warme in some pewter dish and then take little clothes of fine linnen which fold vp two or thrée double Then moisten one of your clothes and wring it forth lightly apply it vnto the heart kéeping it there a while vntill it begin to be cold then take another and so a quarter of an houre together and this you may doe two or thrée times in the day applying afterward the quilt aforetaught This is to be done when a person is weake and faint A Potion purging gently all venemous and corrupt humours from the body R. Scabi Card. benedict Mors diaboli ana pu i. betonicae pu i. trifolii pu i. rad gentianae scrup i. flo boraginis buglossae ana pu i. sem citrini scru i. rhubarb clectae ʒ j. Sene ʒ iij. aqua scab endiniae buglossae ana vnc j. semis fiat infusio Deinde adde Diacatholicon vnc j. manna calab vnc semis sir Rosarum solutiu vnc i. misce fiat potio Take this potion the second or third day after your sweating so it be not on the changing or full of the moone and the sooner the better no botch or sore appearing This will worke gently in all bodies and purge strongly and effectually and cleanseth and purgeth the bodie of the remnant of the venemous infection and corrupt humours Take the other part the second day after early in the morning you must neither eate drinke nor sléepe vntill it hath wrought his effect which is in giuing you seuen or eight stooles Within an houre after the taking of it or thereabout it will worke Haue therefore in readines your stoole with warme water If after the taking of it you feare casting it vp then vse abrowne toste and vinegar to your nose and smell thereto oftentimes Within foure or fiue houres you may take a little good broth made with a chicken veale or mutton with hearbes as afore taught And when it hath wrought his effect which will be within fiue houres or thereabout then may you eate some of your meat and take your rest a while after if you haue any disposition to sléep Make a light supper and kéepe and obserue a good diet kéeping your selfe within your chamber or house ten or twelue dayes They that would haue it lesse purging may take the third part before set downe And although it work strongly yet is it gentle easie and hurtlesse It purgeth choler flegme and all corrupt and superfluous humours I could set downe many for the purging of the bodie but none better or to be preferred before it in this case and this will suffice At other times we commonly giue sirrupes bnfore opening extenuating and preparing the bodie but in this case where the matter aboundeth and requireth spéedie euacuation we stand not vpon it Oftentimes and most commonly in this contagious sicknes the patient is troubled with lightnesse in his head and cannot sléepe the reason hereof is Note the braine is distempered by heate Hote vapours ascending and flying vp from the stomacke And this is the reason they sléepe not and the cause of their raging is want of sléepe and a distemperature of the braine When a person is so troubled then vse this vnderwritten An vnguent to annoint the temples and browes of him that cannot sleepe through heat and distemperature of the braine R. Vnguentum popillion vnc semiss vnguentum rosarum vnc semiss Vnguentum alabastra vnc anaʒ ij opium scrup j. or scrup ij in aqua rosarum dissol misce With this annoint his temples and the for part of his head sometimes when you would haue him to sléepe And giue him to eat this which is excéeding good to cause sléepe and stay raging R. Conserue of Roses halfe an ounce Diascordium two drams sirrupe of popie halfe an ounce sirrupe of limons two drams mixe them Giue him the halfe of this to eate which will greatly further and prouoke sléepe Or this will also greatly prouoke sléepe R. Sirrupe of violets sirrupe of limons sirrupe of poppie of each one ounce diascordium three drams mixe them Giue the patient sometime of this in a spoone to drink for it is good to prouoke sléepe and stay raging A Frontall to be applyed vnto the fore part of the head to cause sleep R. Flowers of Roses violets and water Lillies of each a little handfull of the seeds and heads of poppie one dram of the three kinds of Saunders of each one dram Flowers of Camomill betonie melilote ana pu ss beate them into grosse powder and let a frontall be made thereof Apply this frontall vnto his head as afore taught I haue set downe these meanes to cause and prouoke sléepe and stay the raging that is oftentimes in this sicknesse But you must note that this is not to be vsed in the beginning of his sicknesse For in the beginning of the sicknesse the person ought in anie wise to be kept from sléepe For as through sléepe the
spirits are drawne inward and the venome therewith attracted vnto the heart so the heat is also excéedingly increased through sléepe Therefore this meanes that I haue set downe for causing of sléepe or anie other to sléepe may not bée vsed vntill the Patient hath sweat and two or thrée dayes after his sickening And the sore forth then may you safely vse them to his great comfort ease Through the great interior heat the patient his tongue throte and mouth will be sore as I haue often séene then make this gargarisme A Gargarisme to heale the mouth throat tongue in this sicknesse if it be sore through the heat of the stomacke R. Barley excoricated or common barley a handfull Plantain leaues strawberry leaues violet leaues sinckfoile leaues of either of these a handful bryer tops halfe a handfull woodbine leaues and collumbine leaues halfe a handfull shred and bruise these hearbes a little and then boyle them in a quarte of faire water which beeing well boyled straine it forth and put thereto Diamoron two ounces sirrupe of Roses two ounces mel Rosarum or honey of Roses two ounces mixe these and let the patient vse it often to wash and gargarize his mouth The vse of a little white wine sometimes is good with Rose-water and a little vinegar to wash his moth withal To vomit at the beginning of the sicknesse is good for if a person fall sicke at his meate or within a while after his meate then ought hee to prouoke vomite and when he hath vomited then to take a medicine set downe for the cure of the pestilence and sweat therewithall and do as I haue taught in this booke before but if he bée much troubled with vomiting in his sicknesse then let him vse this that I shall teach him gariphilarumʒ ij syr limonum vnc semis diamargariton frid ʒ ij misc And if his vomiting should not stay then were it good for him to take some gentle purging potion to expulse these corrupt humours that sucketh vp that disposition to vomite I doubt not but what I haue written is sufficient for the interiour part Now will I come to the externall and outward application and shew what is to bee done in suppurating and opening the sore Hauing taken one of the medicines afore taught and sweat vsing the cordiall appointed apply vnto the sore this vnderwritten which will drawe it forth and ripen it and you must haue special care that with spéede you draw forth the sore apostume or carbuncle least it returne againe into the bodie A plaister to suppurate drawe forth and ripen the sore or botch although common yet very good and commended of al that vse it Take a great white Onion cut off the head of it with your knife picke out the coare or middle part and fill that hollow place full of good treacle not common treacle but Theriaca Andromachi which you shall haue at the Apothecaries Put on the head of the Onion and paast it with a little dow or leuen and set it to roste in the imbers and being soft rosted take it forth and pill it and stampe it in a morter and lay it hote vnto the sore vpon some double cloth and rowle it softly that it fal not off renew it and lay on fresh euery sixe houres And here I must néeds commend the vse of a yong cocke to be vsed in this maner vnto the sore Pull away the feathers from about the fundament of the cocke and place the fundament vpon the sore and hold his bill sometime to kéepe in his breath he shall the better draw the venome if he die then take another and do so againe Then lay on this Cataplasma which I haue often vsed and approued to bee verie good to draw forth and suppurate the sore R. One Lilly roote young mallowes one handful let them be bruised in a morter Lineseede two or three sponefuls beaten grossely boyle them together in sufficient water or as much as will couer them boyle them vntill they be very soft and thick then put thereunto Figges six or seuen halfe a good handfull of raisins stoned mix these together and put vnto it oyle of Camomil two spoonefuls and being very warme lay it to the sore and binde it softly that it may abide on change it euery twenhoures Another that ripeneth the botch and bringeth it speedely vnto suppuration R. Onions and Garlicke heads of each of them in number foure rost them in the imbers then stampe them in a morter and put thereto of fenegreeck and line seede of each a good spoonefull snayles with their shelles foure or fiue figs in number foure leauen as much as a Walnut barrowes liquor as much as two walnuts mix them in a morter and warme it apply it vnto the sore An Implaister that ripeneth the sore or botch R. Galbanum Ammoniacum Bedelium ana j ounce dissolue them in vinegar at the fire and strain them and put thereto diachilon magnum ij ounces mix them and spread it vpon a thick cloth and lay it to the sore and change it euery xvi houres Another plaister that draweth forth the sore and ripeneth it speedily Take a white Lillie roote yong mallowes two handfull scabious one handfull shred them and bruse them and boile them in a sufficient quantitie of ale grounds and put thereto of line-séede two or thrée spoonefuls beaten and as much fenegréek beaten likewise sower leauen as much as two walenuts mixe them and lay it warme vnto the sore changing it euery sixtéene houres two or thrée times vsing it ripens the botch By vsing any of these pultesses or cataplasmes you may spéedilie ripen the botch or sore and béeing ripe it ought to bée opened by the Chirurgion in the lower part thereof that the matter may be the better auoided And remēber this note that whatsoeuer you apply or lay vnto the botch must not be cold I meane cold in qualitie and operation For cold medicines would driue backe againe that venemous matter true hath expelled to the great daunger of the that napatient And if you feare the opening of it which is indéeds nothing to suffer then let the Chirurgion vse a potentiall instrument I meane a causticke and béeing done vse this digestion R. Cleare Turpentine washed one ounce a yolke of a newe laide egge as much oyle of Saint Iohns worte halfe a dram of good Mithridatum halfe a dram Mixe all these together and vse it vnto the wounde vntill it be wel digested which you may know by the whitenesse thicknesse and great quantity of the matter And notwithstanding it is now running yet shall it bée good for you to vse one of the pultise afore taught it will ripen and bring forth the rest This is dangerous for those that are about you therefore bée carefull to kéepe your chamber and also how you bestow the plasters that you vse vnto your sore that others be not infected