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A69358	Orders, thought meete by her Maiestie, and her priuie Councell, to be executed throughout the counties of this realme, in such townes, villages, and other places, as are, or may be hereafter infected with the plague, for the stay of further increase of the same Also, an aduise set downe vpon her Maiesties expresse commaundement, by the best learned in physicke within this realme, contayning sundry good rules and easie medicines, without charge to the meaner sort of people, aswell for the preseruation of her good subiects from the plague before infection, as for the curing and ordering of them after they shalbe infected.	England and Wales. Sovereign (1558-1603 : Elizabeth I); Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 1533-1603.; England and Wales. Privy Council.	1578 (1578)	STC 9187.9; ESTC S115132	11,035	28

round ball of Yuorie or Iuniper made ful of holes of the one side carying it in your hand vse to smell thereunto renewing it once in a day To be vsed after infection taken FOr as much as the cause of the plague standeth rather in poyson ▪ then in any 〈◊〉 of humours as other agues doe the chiefest way is to moue sweatings and to defend the heart by some cordiall thing Suppositary IF the Pacient be costiue and bound in his bodie let him take a Suppositarie made with a litle boyled Honney and a litle fine powder of Salt and so taken in at the Fundament and kept till it mooue a stoole An excellent Medicine made without charges TAke of the powder of good Bayberries the huske taken awaye from them before they be dried a spooneful Let the Patient drincke this well mingled in a draught of good stale Ale or Beere which is neither sowre nor dead or with a draught of white Wine and go to bedde and cast himselfe into a sweat and forbeare sleepe as is aforesaid An other soueraigne remedie that is a stilled water TAke the inwarde barke of the Ashe tree a pound of Walnuts with the greene outward shelles to the number of 50. cut these small of Scabious of Veruen of P●timorel of Howsleeke of euery one a handfull of Saffron halfe an ounce powre vpon these the strongest Vineger you can get foure pynts let them a litle boyle together vpon a very soft fire ▪ and then stand in a very close potte well slepe all a night vpon the embers afterward distill them with a soft fire and receyue the water close kept Giue vnto the Patient layd in bedde wel couered with clothes two ounces of this water to drink let him be prouoked to sweat euery sixe houres during the space of xxiiii houres giue him the same quantitie to drinke This Medicine for the worthines therof and because it wil stand the maker thereof in little charge it shall be very well done to distill it in the Sommer when the Walnutts hang greene on the tree that it maye bee ready against the time that occasion serueth to vse it 1. Bloud letting IF the Pacient be ful of humors which be good let him immediatly be let bloud vpon the Lyuer veine in the right arme or in the Median veine of the same arme if no sore appeare in the first day 2. Medicine purgatiue FOr the poore take Aloes the weight of vi d. put in the pappe of an Apple and for the richer Pilles of Rufus to be had in euery good Apothecaries shoppe After letting of bloud and purging as shall be needfull some of the forenamed Cordials are to be vsed These preparations thus vsed the first day that the Pacient shall fall sicke as cause shal be to vse the one or the other no sore appearing in which case if the sore shal appeare they are both to be forborne ▪ the next is to vse all meanes to expell the poyson and to defend the heart by Cordials 3. Medicament expulsiue THe poyson is expelled best by sweatings prouoked by posset Ale made with Fenel Marigolds in Winter and with Sorrell Buglosse and Borage in Sommer with the which in both times they must mixe the triacle of Diatessaroum the weight of ix d. so to lay them selues with all quietnes to sweat one halfe houre or an houre if they be strong For they that be neither full of humors nor corrupt in humors neede neither purging nor letting of bloud but at the first plunge maye moue themselues to sweat with Cordiall things mixt with such things as moue sweat and are before declared What is to be done when there is any rising or swelling in any part THen if by these three meanes the poyson be expelled outward by Botches carbuncles or markes called Gods markes according as nature doth expell so must the further procedings be prouiding still that they continue still in the vse of the cordiall and moderate sweating now and then al the time that the sores be in healing which must by the Surgion be handled with great discretion Medicine to be vsed in ordinarie dyet IT is thought that the powder of harts horne hath a speciall prerogatiue to be vsed al the time of their sickenesse in their broths and supping which in Sommer must euer haue Sorrell Borage Buglosse and in winter Betony and Scabious or Morsus ▪ Di●bol● ▪ and if their habilities do not serue let them vse it with Aleburies made with a litle Nutmegge or one Cloue or with Cawdelles in like maner ▪ made with Cloues Maces Nutmegges Sanders or such like Both to preserue and cure the sickenesse TAke an egge make a hole in the toppe of it take out the white y●lke fil the shel with the weight of two frēch crownes of Saffron ▪ rost the said egge thus filled with Saffron vnder the embres vntill the shell begin to waxe yelow then take it from the fire and beate the shel and Saffron in a 〈◊〉 together with halfe a spoonefull of Mustard seede ▪ take of this powder a french crown weight and assoone as you suspect your self infected dissolue it into tenne spoonfulles of posset ale drinke it luke warme then go to bed and prouoke your selfe to sweating To be vsed in the first time of the Sickenesse ANother is to take fiue or sixe handefull of Sorrel that groweth in the field or a greater quantitie according as you will distill more or lesse of the water thereof and let it lye infrised or steeped in good Vineger the space of xxiiii houres then take it of drie it with a linen cloth put into a Limbecke and distill the water thereof And assoone as you finde your selfe touched with the sickenesse drinke foure spoonfulles of the sayde water with a litle sugar and if you be hable walke vpō it vntil you do sweat if not keep your bed and being well couered prouoke your selfe to sweating and the next day to take asmuch againe of it a litle before supper Item to prouoke vomit with two ounces of rancke oyle or walnutte oyle a spoonefull of the iuyce of Celendyne halfe a spoonfull of the iuyce of radice roote so that the party infected do walke and not sleepe is better then any letting of blood or any purging For the disease neither can suffer ▪ agitatiō of humors nor when one is infected hath no time to bleede or to purge Outward medicines for to be applyed to the sore The first TAke of Scabiouse two handefulls stampe it in a stone morter with a pestell of stone if you can get any such then put vnto it of olde swynes grease salted two ounces and the yelke of an egge stampe them well together lay parte of this warme to the sore The second TAke of the leaues of Mallowes of Camomill flowers of eyther of them an handfull of Lineseede beaten into pouder two ounces boyle the Mallowe leaues first cut and the flowers of the Camomil in faire water standing aboue a fingers breadth boyle all them together vntil all the water almost be spent then put thereunto the Lineseede of Wheate flower halfe an handful of swines grease the skins taken away iii. ounces of oyle of Roses two ounces stirre thē still with a sticke and let them all boyle together on a soft fire without smoke vntill the water be vtterly spent beate them all together in a morter vntill they be wel encorporated together in feeling smooth not rough then make part thereof hot in a dish set vpon a chaf●ndish of coales lay it thicke vpō a linnen cloth applying it to the sore Another excellent medicine to ripen and bring out the Sore TAke a white Onion cut in pieces of fresh butter three ounces of Leuen the weight of twelue pence of Mallowes one handfull of Scabious if it may be had one handefull of Cloues of garlicke the weight of xx d. boyle them on the fyre in sufficient water and make a pultesse of it and lay it warme to the sore Another TO the sore it selfe do thus Take two handfull of Valerian three rootes of Danewort a handefull of Smalledge or Louage yf you can get it seethe them al in butter and water a fewe ▪ crommes of bread and make a pultesse thereof lay it warme to the sore vntill it breake Another for the same IF you can not haue these herbes it is good to laye a loafe of bread to it hot as it commeth out of the ouen which afterward shal be burnt or buried in the earth or the leaues of Scabious or Sorrell rosted or two or three Lillie rootes rosted vnder embers beaten and applied A generall medicine for all sorts of people taken with the plague to be had without cost TAke of the roote of butter burre otherwise called pestilēt wort one ounce of the root of great Valerian a quarter of an ounce of Sorrel an hādful boyle al these in a quart of water to a pint then straine it and put thereto two spoonfulles of Vineger two ounces of good Sugar boyle all these together vntill they be wel mingled let the infected drinke of this so hotte as he may suffer it a good draught and if he chaunce to cast it vp againe let him take the same quantitie straight way vpon it and prouoke himselfe to sweat and he shal finde great helpe Time of continuance apart from common assemblies SVch as haue bene infected should keepe their house without being conuersant with the whole vntill the sores shall haue left running and be perfectly whole and sound which in sanguine cholericke persons will be healed sooner then in melancholike flegmatike complexions SVch persons may not wel be conuersant with them which are not infected for the space of one moneth Infected clothes THe cōtagion suspected to remaine in clothes either wollen or linnen cannot wel be auoyded by better meanes then by fire and water by often washing airing the same in frosts and sunne shine with good discretion and burning the clothes of small value ❧ Imprinted at London by Christopher Barker Printer to the Queenes most excellent Maiestie ⸪ Preseruatiues Curati●es