drink wherein hath been infused the fore-named herbs Or One day you may take a little Worm-wood and Valerian with a grain of Salt Another you may take seven or eight berries of Juniper dryed and powdered with common drink or with drink wherein Worm-wood and Rue hath been steeped all night Or Take the Treacle called Diatessarum of light price easie to be had Or The Root of Ennula Campana taken in powder with drink Or A piece of Arras root kept in the mouth as men passe the streets Or Take six leaves of Sorrel wash them with water and Vinegar letting them lye in the said water and Vinegar a while then eat them fasting and keep in your mouth and chew now and then either Set-wall or the root of Angelica or a little Cinnamon or four grains of Myrrhe or so much of Rattle-snake root Of Medicines purgative It is good for prevention to keep the body open especially with such things as are easie of operation and good to resist putrefaction as Pestilential Pills c. Take Alloes two ounces Myrrhe and Saffron of each an ounce Ammoniacum half a ounce make them up into a mash with the juyce of Lemmons or White-wine Vinegar to keep the body open a small pill or two will be enough taken before Supper or before Dinner But to purge the body take the weight of a dram made into five or six or more Pills in the morning fasting and that day keep your Chamber If you bee costive and bound in body you may take a Glister made with a little boyled hony and a little fine powder of salt and so taken in at the fundament and kept till it move a stoole Or If you are poor take Aloes the weight of six pence put in the pap of an Apple and if able to buy them pills of Ruffus to bee had in every shop Such as are tyed to necessary attendance on the Infected as also such as live in visited houses shall do well to cause Issues to bee made in their left Arms or right Legs or both Blood Letting If the Patient bee full of blood and strong let him bee let blood upon the Liver Vein in the right arme or in the Median Veine of the said arm but bleeding and purging must bee used the first day the Patient is sick both to be forborn in case any sores or spots appear Vomits To provoke a Vomit take two ounces of zant oyle or Wal-nut-oyle a spoonful of the juyce of Celandine and half a spoonful of the juyce of Radish-roots or two spoonfuls of Oxymel of Squills with posset drink and oyle Expulsive Medicines The Plague is best expelled by sweating caused by posset-Ale made with Fennel and Marigolds in Winter and with Sorrel Bugloss and Borrage in Summer with which at both times London Treacle to the weight of two drams must bee mixed and so lay themselves with all quietness to sweat one half hour or an hour if they be strong For the cure of the Infected upon the first apprehension Bur-seeds Cucheneely powder of Harts-horn Citron-seeds one or more of them with a few grains of Camphire are good to bee given in Cardus or Dragon Water or with some Treacle Water Or Take Bur-seeds and Cucheneely of each half a dram or to a weak body of each one scruple Camphire five grains mixe these with two ounces of Cardus or Dragon water half an ounce of Treacle water sirrop of wood-sorrel a spoonful mixe these give it to the Patient warme cover him to sweat you may give him a second draught after twelve houres let him drink no cold drink this posset drink or the like will bee good to give the Visited liberally Or Take wood-sorrel half a handful Marigold flowers half so much shavings of Harts-horn three drams a Fig or two sliced boil them well in clear posset drink let them drink thereof freely you may put thereto a little Sugar Or Take Citron-seeds six or eight shavings of Harts-hornes halfe a dram London Treacle a dram mixe them with two ounces of Cardus water or with three ounces of the prescribed posset-drinke drinke it warme and so lie to sweat Or Take Sorrel-water five or sixe spoonfuls Treacle water a spoonful London Treacle a dram and a half mixe them well give it warme and so lay the patient to sweat Or Take Tormentil and Celandine-roots of each four ounces Scabious and Rue of each a handful and a half London Treacle a dram and a half Bole-Armoniack half a scruple put thereto a little Sugar mix them well let the party drink it warm and cover him to sweat In Summer Take the juyce of Wood-sorrel two ounces the juyce of Lemmons an ounce Diascordium a dram Cinnamon six grains Vinegar half an ounce give it warme and lay the Patient to sweat in case of fluxes of the belly or want of rest Or Take an Egge and make an hole in the top of it take out the white and yolk fill the shell with the weight of two French Crowns of Saffron roast the said Egge thus filled with Saffron under the embers until the shell waxe yellow then take it from the fire and beat the shell and Saffron in a Morter with half a spoonful of Mustard-seed Take of this powder a French Crown weight and as soon as you suspect your self Infected dissolve it into ten spoonfuls of posset Ale and drink it Luke-warm then go to bed and provoke your self to sweating Or Take one dram of the Electuarium de Ovo Or Take five or six handful of Sorrel that groweth in the field or a greater quantity according as you will distill more or lesse of the water thereof and let it lye steeped in good Vinegar four and twenty hours then take it off and dry it with a Linnen cloath and put it into a Limbeck and distill the water thereof and as soon as you finde your self touched with the sickness drink four spoonfuls of the said water with a little Sugar and if you bee able walk upon it till you sweat if not keep your bed and being well covered provoke your self to sweating Or Take of the Root Butter-burre otherwise called Pestilent-wort one ounce of the Root of great Valerian a quarter of an ounce of Sorrel an handful boil all these in a quart of water to a pinte then strain it and put thereto two spoonfuls of Vinegar two ounces of good Sugar boyl all these together till they be well mingled Let the Infected drink of this so hot as hee may suffer it a good draught and if hee chance to cast it up again let him take the same quantity streight way upon it and provoke himself to sweat Or Take Sugar of Roses four ounces Ginger two ounces Camphire an ounce make these into fine powder kept in Butts with Wine taking a dram at a time Or Take of the powder of good Bayberries the husk taken away from them before they be dryed a spoonful Let the Patient drink this well mingled in
a draught of good stale Ale or Beer or with a draught of white Wine and go to bed and cast himself into a sweat forbearing sleep Or Take of the inward Bark of the Ash-tree one pound of Wal-nuts with the green outward shells to the number of fifty cut these small of scabious and Vervain each a handful Saffron two drams pour on the strongest Vinegar you can get four pints let them a little boyl together upon a very soft fire and then stand in a close pot well stopt all night upon the embers after distill them with a soft fire and receive the water close kept give to the Patient laid in Bed and well covered with cloathes two ounces of this water to drink and let him bee provoked to sweat and every eight hours during the space of twenty four give him the same quantity to drink Care must bee taken in the use of these sweating Cordials that the party Infected sweat two or three hours if hee have strength and sleep not till the sweat bee over and that hee hath been well wiped with warm Linnen and when hee hath been dried let him wash his mouth with Water and Vinegar warme and let his face and hands bee washed with the same When these things are done give him a good draught of broth made with a Chicken or Mutton with Rose-mary Thime Sorrel succory and Marigolds Or else Water-gruel with Rosemary and Winter-savory or Thyme Pomado seasoned with Verjuyce or juyce of Wood-sorrel For their drink let it bee small beer warmed with a toast or water boyled with Carraway-seed Cardus-seed and a Crust of bread or such Posset-drink as is mentioned before in the second medicine after some nutriment let them sleep or rest often washing their mouth with water and vinegar These Cordials must bee repeated once in eight ten or twelve hours at the furthest If the party Infected vomit up his Medicine then repeat it presently or else give him two or three spoonfuls of Vinegar of Squills or Oxymel of Squils with posset-drink and then after proceed External Medicines Veficatores applyed to the Arms the in-side of the thighs or about the bottom of the Calf of the Legg will draw forth the venome For the swelling under the ears arm-pits or in the groines they must bee alwaies drawn forth and ripened and broke with all speed Pull off the feathers from the tails of living Cocks Hens Pidgeons or Chickens and holding their bills hold them hard to the Botch or swelling and so keep them at that part until they dye and by this means draw out the poyson It is good to apply a Cupping-glass or embers in a dish with a handful of Sorrel upon the Embers To break the Humours Take a great Onion hollow it put into it a Fig Rue cut small and a dram of Venice Treacle put it close stopped in a wet paper and rost it in the Embers Apply it hot unto the humour lay three or four one after another let one lye three hours Or Scabious and Sorrel roste in the Embers mixed with a little strong leaven and some Barrows grease and a little salt will draw it and break it Or Take two or three rosted Onions a Lilly root or two rosted a handful of scabious rosted four or five figs a piece of leaven and a little Rue stamp all these together if it bee too drie put to it two ounces of oyle of Lillies or so much salt-butter make a poultess apply it hot after it hath been three or four hours take it off and burne it and apply a fresh poultesse of the same if it prove hard to break add a little burnt Coperass to the Poultess Or Take the Flowers of Elders two handfuls Rochet seed bruised one ounce Pidgeons dung three drams stamp these together put to them a little Oyle of Lillys make thereof a poultess apply it and change it as you did the former To Draw When it is broken to draw it and heal it take the yolk of an Egge one ounce of hony of Roses Turpentine half an ounce Wheat flower a little London Treacle a dram and a half mixe these well spread it upon Leather change it twice a day or take Diachylon cum Gummis For the Carbuncle Apply an actual or potential Cautery laying a defensative of Bole-Armoniack or Terra Sigillata mixed with Vinegar and the white of an Egge round about the tumor but not upon it Take three or four Cloves of Garlick Rue half a handful four figs strong leaven and the soot of a Chimney in which Wood hath been burnt of each half an ounce Mustard-seed two drams Salt a dram and a half stamp these well together and apply it hot to the sore you may put thereto a little Salt-butter if it be to dry Or this Take Leaven half an ounce Radish roots the bigger the better an ounce and an half Mustard-seed two drams Onions and Garlick roasted of each two drams and a half Venice Treacle Mithridatum three drams mixe these in a Morter apply it hot thrice a day to the sore But these sores cannot bee well ordered and cured without the personal care of a discreet Chirurgion Take of Scabious two handfuls stamp it in a stone Morter with a Pestel of stone if you can get any such then put into it of old swines greace salted two ounces and the yolk of an Egg stamp them well together and lay part of this warm to the sore Take of the leaves of Mallows of Cammomel-flowers or either of them a handfull of Lin-seed beaten into a powder two ounces boyl the Mallow-leaves first cut and the flowers of Cammomel in fair water standing about a fingers breadth boyl all them together till the water bee almost spent Then put thereunto the Lin-seed of Wheat flower half a handful of Swines-greace the skins taken away three ounces of Oyle of Lillies two ounces Stir them still with a stick and let them all boyl together on a soft fire without smoak until the water bee utterly spent beat them all together in a Morter until they bee well incorporated and in feeling smooth and not rough then take part thereof hot in a dish set upon a Chafingdish of coals and lay it thick upon a linnen cloath applying it to the sore Take a white Onion cut in pieces of fresh butter three ounces of Leaven the weight of twelve pence of Mallows one handful of Scabious if it may bee had one handful of cloves of Garlick the weight of twentipence boil them on the fire in sufficient water and make a poultesse of it and lay it warme to the sore Another Take two handfuls of Valerian three roots of Dane-wort an handful of Smallage or Lovage seeth them all in butter and water and a few crums of bread and make a poultess thereof and lay it warm to the sore till it break Another If you cannot have these Hearbs it is good to lay a loaf of bread to it hot as it
these are not sick at all and the most recover by good looking to The Carbuncle is a little venemous pustle with a broad compass of a deep redness upon it wonderful angry and burning like a fire-coal thence comes his name Carbunculus It riseth like a Blister producing an ash-colour'd or else a blackish crust sometimes it rises in many pustles like burnt blisters on the outward skin which being broken and the matter run out the like crusty escar grows over it till it falls off It appears in any part of the body or limbes many times on the breast and sometimes in the face with it alwayes go these evil companions itching inflammation and erosion for it is so full of burning poyson that it consumes the flesh and will in a short time if it be not well lookt to eat so deep and large a hole as if the flesh were hollowed with an hot iron It riseth from the same cause in the Botch but the blood is more hot black thick and feculent proceeding from burnt choler or adust melancholy The Spots otherwise called Gods Tokens are commonly of the bigness of a flea-bitten spot sometimes much bigger their colour is according to the predominancy of the humour in the body red or reddish if choler pale blue or dark blue if flegm leaden or blackish if melancholy abound but they have ever a circle about them The red ones a purplish circle and the others a reddish circle they appear most commonly on the breast and back and sometimes on the neck arms and thighs on the breast and back because the vital spirits strive to breath out the venom the nearest way In some bodies there will be very many in some but one or two or very few according to the quantity of the venom and the strength to drive them out They usually shew themselves on the third fourth fifth or seventh day sometimes not till death the venom yet tyrannizing over the dead carcase sometimes they appear together with the sores but for the most part without the cause is the venemous matter condensed and hardned in the act of penetrating the Pores of the skin if they be skilfully dissected in the dead body you may finde some half way deep in the flesh and some in the muscles of the breast have been followed with the Incision-knife even to the rib-bones The reason why they are thus congealed is the thickness of the venemous matter and the coldness of it for it is the most flegmatick part of the blood yet mixed also with the other humours according to the colours They appear in dead bodies most because nature fainting in her labour to thrust out the venom through the skin life's hear going out the privation thereof and the nearness of the outward air do congeal them presently and because many times at the last gaspe Nature gives the stoutest struggle it comes to pass they are not so far thrust forth as to appear till death All these symptoms must be lookt to very diligently and skilfully How to know whether the dead body died of the Plague though neither sore or Token appear HEnricius says those that die of the Plague are known from others by these marks The nose looks blue sometimes blackish blue as if it had been beaten bruised the like colour is in the ears and nails and their bodies are ever worse coloured then other dead bodies be But add to this one signe more approved by experience and standing with good reason viz. That whereas other dead bodies must be laid out strait while they are warm or else when they are cold they will be too stiff to be straitned in those of the Plague or poysoned either the flesh is soft and the joints limber and flexible after the body is cold which shews the vileness of putrefaction in all the humours and moist parts of the body How to know whether the person infected at the first or soon after be likely to be recovered or no. IF one be taken with the first signes of sinking of his spirits causless sadness shortness of breath on the sudden that he cannot forbear sighing yet knows no cause why sick-heartedness c. If this happen at his meat or presently after let him if he can vomit if he offer and cannot help him with a little warm water and oyl or dip a feather in Linseed-oyl or oyl of Scorpions and thrust it into his throat Then or if he be taken betwixt meals or fasting make this draught for him Take of Bole-Armoniack one dram powdred juice of Oranges half an ounce white-wine an ounce Rose-water two ounces If he vomit it up again it is a signe the venom is abundant and hath gotten great power over the vital parts therefore wash his mouth with a little white-wine and give him the same Potion again If he again cast it up repeat the wine-Lotion and this Potion again three times This is taken out of the second Canon of Avicen by Guanerius who testifies upon his own knowledge that never any that at first kept it without casting it up again dyed of that Sickness Let the infected take this following Medicine which hath been approved the best Remedy against the Plague Take three pints of Muskadine and boyl therein a handful of Sage and a handful of Rhue till a pint be wasted then strain it and set it over the fire again then put thereto a penyworth of long-pepper half an ounce of ginger and a quarter of an ounce of Nutmegs all beaten together then let it boyl a little and put thereto three peniworth of Triacle and a quarter of a pint of the best angelica-Angelica-water you can get Take of it always warm both morning and evening if infected two spoonfuls and sweat thereupon if not a spoonful a day is sufficient half in the morning the rest in the evening Keep this as your most estimable treasure for under God in the Plague-time you may safely trust to this since it never deceived any AN Excellent Preservative against the Plague Pestilence and all Infectious Diseases Noisome Smells and Corrupt Air Sea-fogs Kentish and Essex-Agues Scurvy and Dropsies prepared by R. Turner Med. Sold by Sam. Speed at the Rainbow neer the Inner Temple-gate at 2 s. 6 d. per Paper sealed Directions for the use thereof TAke of it morning and going to bed and at any time going abroad hold a piece in your mouth letting it there dissolve The quantity may be from the bigness of an Hazel-nut to a small Nutmeg FINIS Euseb Hist Eccle. l. 7. c. 11.