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A16628	Physick for the sicknesse, commonly called the plague With all the particular signes and symptoms, whereof the most are too ignorant. Collected, out of the choycest authors, and confirmed with good experience; for the benefit and preservation of all, both rich and poore. By Stephen Bradwell, of London physician.	Bradwell, Stephen.	1636 (1636)	STC 3536; ESTC S106184	28,626	62

2. sayes that Socrates by temp●rate and discreet 〈◊〉 lived in Athens divers Plague-times yet was never touched with it 〈…〉 Now what this Dyet Preservative is I will b i●fly shew you Dyet consists of Sixe Points viz. Ayre Meate and Drinke Repletion and Evacuation Exercise and Rest Sleepe and Wa●ching Passions of the Minde They are composed also in these two Verses Aër Esca Quies Repletio Gaudia Somnus Haec moderata juvant immoderata nocent These indeed are the sixe Strings of Apollo's Viall wherein consisteth the whole harmonie of health If these be in tune the body is sound But any of th●se too high wrested or too much slackned that is immoderately used makes a discord in nature and puts the whole body out of tune For Ayre first 〈◊〉 Ayre 〈…〉 Ayre is that which we draw in with our breath continually and wee cannot live without it one minute for it is the food of our Spirits and therefore we had need take heed that the ayre we draw be pure and wholsome The whol● streame of Opinion runnes upon a cold and dry Aire so commending the North and East windes as most wholsome What most unwholsom and condemning the Hot and Moist Aire engendred by the South and West windes as the fittest matter for infection because most apt to putrefaction So Hippocrates in the 2d. of his Epidem saith that in Cranon a Citie of Thessalie there arose putrid Vlcers Pustuls and Carbuncles through the hot and moyst constitution of the ayre And Galen in 1. de Temperam c. 4. affirmeth that the hot and moyst constitution of the ayre doth most of all breed pestilent diseases And from these mouthes a multitude of late Writers have learnt to speake the same thing Yet we know that the hot and dry weather also may cause a contagious ayre So saith Avenzoar in his 3. Booke 3. Tract and 1. chap. And Titus Livius in lib. 1. decad 4. recordeth that Rome was infected with the Plague by a Hot and Dry distemper of the Aire Wee also may remember that the Summer 1624 was an extreame dry and parching Summer and we cannot forget that this last Summer was not much unlike like it The Contagion indeed this yeare was begotten beyond Sea and was rock'd hither in sicke bodyes but our Ayre I feare will prove a Nurse though not a Mother to it This Spring answering to the sore-past Summer in heate and drouth Now to avoyde the mischiefes of unwholsome ayre Hippocrates the Prince of Physitians H w we may guard us frō unwholsome Aires in his Booke de Natura humana gives this counsell Providendum est ut quàm paucissimus aëris influxus corpus ingrediatur ut ille ipse quam peregrinus existat Regionum etiam locos in quibus morbus consistat quantum ejus fieri potest permutare oportet Others advise in threee words Citò Longè Tardè which Iordanus calls an Antidote made of 3. adverbs thus versifying upon them Haec tria tabificam pellunt adverbia Pestem Mox Longè Tardè Cede recede redi But I will not teach to flee for too many with Dedalus put on wings the last great visitation that with Icarus dropt downe by the way Onely my counsell is this The Authors counsaile for without doores Let every one keepe himselfe as priuate as he may Shun throngs of people and all wet close and stinking places Walke not abroad before nor after Sunne Keep moderation between heat and cold in all things yet rather encline to heate a little because of drying up superfluous moystures Let the streets bee kept cleane washing the channels every morning and evening and sweeping away all durt leaves stalkes and rootes of hearbes and offals leaving no dunghils nor other noysome matter in the streets But the water is most to be vsed in hot and dry the fire in hot and moyst weather chiefly Also in the evenings it is good to purifie the ayre with Bonefires but especially with Fire-workes or rather with discharging of peeces for Gunpowder is exceeding drying by reason of the Salt peeter and Sulphur with which it is made and by the crackes that it gives the Ayre is forcibly shaken and attenuated and so opened to let in that purification which is immediately made by the fire that goes along with it This way is commended by Levinus Lemnius de Ocultis Naturae Mirac lib. 2. cap. 10. Also by Crato in consilio 275 By Raymundus Mindererus lib. de Pestilentia cap. 20. and all the late Writers Within doores observe For within doores that little houses must not be pestered with many Lodgers for it is best for those that are able to have shift of Beds and Chambers to lie in that the ayre in them may be kept free and sweet Keepe every roome daily very cleane leaving no fluts corners Let not Water stand so long in any vessell as to putrifie which in hot weather it will soone doe Make Fires every day in everie roome in quantitie according to the largenesse of the roome and the temperature of the weather Perfume them and all the houshold-stuffe in cold and moist weather with Frankinsense Storax Benjamin Pitch Rosin Lignum alöes Lignum Rhodium Iuniper-wood or the Berries In hot and drie weather with Rose-water on a hot Fire-shovell or some such like coole fume in a perfuming-pot Strew the Windowes and ledges with Rew Wormwood Lavender Marjoram Penyriall Costmary and such like in cold weather but in hot with Primroses Violets Rose-leaves Borrage and such cooling scents For Garments Garments best guarding the vitall parts avoide as much as may bee all leather woollen and furres also velvets plush and shagge Choose such as may be watered as chamlets grograms paropas philip and chenyes and such like for their gumminesse excludeth the infectious aire best Have shift and shift often and still as cloathes are left off perfume them well Beware of buying old clothes Bedding or such like stuffe for if they have beene used by the infected they are verie dangerous as I told you before in the authoritie of a furr'd Gowne and Feather-beds What to hold in the mouth Carrie in your mouth a peece of Citron-pill or for want of that of Lemon pill a Clove or a peece of Tormentill Root Or if any will resort to me in Golding lane I will soone provide for them Lozenges to hold in their mouth sit for their constitution and such as I have had good experience of the last great Plague time What to 〈…〉 Carry in your hand a Lemon stucke with cloves sweet Marjoram Lavender Balme Rew or Wormwood as the constitution of your braine shall require For beleeve by my experience that many did enflame their braines and so fell into the Sicknesse they shunned in the last great Contragion by smelling to and carrying things in their mouthes too hot for their complexion Camphor Camphor also though it be accounted an excellent coole fume

for ill aires yet those that have cold and weake stomacks are very much weakned by the use of it But beware of unsavourie smels and stinking odours For though Dioscorides commends Galbanum and Cardan the burning of Leather Averroes a potion of Vrine and others the smelling to Horse-dung yet I stand to it that sweet and pleasing odours are more proper because they dilate restore and comfort the Spirits whereas the contrary doe contract and repugne them and so weaken the faculties I intend to have also preservative waters to dip Spunges in for severall Constitutions to be carried in Boxes to smell to As also preservative Pomanders of choyse vertue The next point of Dyet is Meat and Drinke Meate and Drinke Let your meate be alwayes good and sweet temperate betwixt hot and cold and not too moyst or fl●shie easie of digestion and such as makes the best Bloud Such are Beefe Mutton Lambe Kid Flesh and Cony Turkey Capon Pullet Partridge Pheasant Pigeons Turtles Larkes Black-birds Thrushes and Finches All Water-fowles are naught The Hearts of Red and Fallow Deere are speciall good so also are those of young Steeres Calves Kids and Lambes beeing cordiall both by reason of Sympathy and solidnesse of the flesh which causeth them to be the lesse corruptible Of Fish which should be eaten but seldome Fish though it be of the best kinde the elected are fresh Salmon Trout Barbell Shrimps Playse and Flounders when they are firme not flashy Smelts Makarell Gudgion Mullet Soale Gurnard Lobster and Cray-fish But Eeles Lamperns and Lampreys with all such as delight in Mud are to bee avoyded Egges Egges of Hennes and Turkeys are good Oyle and Butter Oyle and Butter are kindes of Antidotes against venome and Butter-milke may now and then be used by hot Constitutions Fruites Fruites must be eaten but sparingly Those that wee may be most bold withall are sowre Cherries Plums and Gooseberries before they be full ripe having a sowre taste Also Peaches Quinces Pomgranads Oranges Limons Medlars Services Mulberries Raspes Strawberries and Currans which being not full ripe are astringent but ripe doe loosen the body But of Walnuts Filbers and Small-nuts the elder are the better Dryed Fruits also are good whether they bee Peares Plums Cherries Figs Raisons or Prunes Moreover Pease Beanes and Artichokes may be used sometimes by leane and spare Bodies If other Fruits that are colder and moyster bee longed for eate after the man Orange with a little fennell and salt The best Rootes Rootes are Onions Leekes and Radishes for these are vertuous against venome But they offend hot heads and weake eyes Of Herbes Hearbes Rue Wormwood Balme Mints Pennyryall Rosemary Sage sweet Marjorum and Time For Sallets and Sauces Burrage Buglosse Violets Fennell and especially Sorrell Olives also and Capers Sharp Sauces Vineger Verjuice juice of Limons and Oranges which for their drynesse resist putrifaction and for their coolnesse Feavors But those colder stomackes that are offended with them may temper them with Wine and Spices Yet there must be cautious usage of hot spices and all salt meates lest they inflame the Bloud though in regard of their drying and heating quality they be usefull in some bodies and at some times especially for cold and waterish stomackes Others must mixe them with Vineger Verjuice or the juice of Limons or Oranges Note here That Vineger Vineger good is of a speciall vertue against putrifaction as AMBROSE PAREY in the 8. Chapter of his Booke of the Plague proveth by the use of it in washing dead bodies with it before they are Embalmed that they may keepe sweet the longer But it is not so good for Women But not for Women because it offends the Mother as CRATO affirmeth Consil 275. therefore they must allay it with white Wine and Sugar Note also that Cabbages Coleworts Lettuce Dangerous things Pompions Musk-Mellons and Coucumbers are very dangerous meates in contagious times neither doe I approve of any other rootes then Garlicke for rusticke bodies and for others Onions Leekes and Radishes as I said before onely Roasting is the best way of dressing Flesh Dressing of Meates and Frying or Broyling of Fish Broths Broths are but for Sicke and weake ones fit And then they must be sharpned with a little Vineger or juice of Lemmons For as MANARDUS sayes lib. 5. Epist 3. the body ought rather to be dried then moystened And so then for Drinke Drinke it must be as little as may well be borne good and pure whether it be Beere Ale or Wine for Mede Vsqubaque Bragget c. I account them rather Medicines then parts of Food But neither heady too sweet nor too small To a weake stomacke and a feeble Nature Wine is an Antidote against all Poysons Wine for whom fit as CELSUS lib. 8. de Re Medica cap. 27. affirmeth And Senectutis summa est medicina as A●TIUS teaches Tetr 1. serm 4. cap. 30. But let not those that are young and strong make a common use of them in Contagious times For it must needs breed Inflamation after which followes Putrifaction which is a fit host to entertaine such an ill guest as the Pestilence Wheaten-Bread Bread of a Day old and a little leavened is absolutely the best for healthy people Light Biskets also with Anise-seeds is very good Quantity of Meate and Drinke For the strict Quantitie of Eating and Drinking I cannot stint every mans stomacke but must conclude with HIPPOCRATES Aph. 17. lib. 1. Concedendum est aliquid Tempori Regioni Aetati Consuetudini The Season Place and Custome must beare some sway in these things Only beware of Sacietie or Glutting For the same Hippocrates in his 17th Aphorisme in the 2 Booke Sayes that Meate and Drinke immoderately taken causeth Sicknesse For from thence arise Crudities which sayth GALEN in Comm. 2. in Hippocr de Natur. Humana breed new Diseases Therefore hearken to AVICEN Who adviseth alwayes to rise from Meate with some remainder of appetite for within halfe an houre or thereabouts as soone as the meate first eaten beginneth to digest our hunger ceaseth lib. 1. Fen. 3. Doct. 2. cap 7. And hence it is that some greedily following the sense of their appetite-onely over-charge their stomackes even to vomiting before they feele themselves satisfied because though the vessell be over-full yet appetite is not app●ased till Concoction have begun her worke upon some part of that which is already received And here I cannot but justly taxe those that give up themselves to disorderly Dyet Gluttony Drunkenesse For the lives of many are so monstrous that HELIOGABALVS was but a pingler to them The Dutch may yeeld up theyr seas of Drinking and strike sayle to the English Men loose theyr good names and are faine to get new ones as to bee called Blades and Roarers as if they had beene begotten by drunken Cutlers or bruitish Bulls There was one DIOTEMVS