respect vnto his custome age the region and the time for through emptinesse there is great danger lest that the venomous matter that is driuen out to the superficiall parts of the bodie should be called backe vnto the inward parts by an hungrie stomacke and the stomacke it selfe should bee filled with choloricke hot thinne and sharpe excrementall humors whereof commeth biting of the stomacke and gripings in the guttes CHAP. XIV What drinke the Patient infected ought to vse IF the Feauer be great and burning the patient must abstain from wine vnlesse that he be subiect to swounding and he may drink the Oxymell following in stead thereof Take of fair water three quarts wherin boile foure ounces of hony vntill the third part bee consumed scumming it continually then straine it and put it into a clean vessell and adde thereto foure ounces of vineger and as much cynamon as will suffice to giue it a taste Or else a sugered water as followeth Take two quarts of fair water of hard sugar sixe ounces of cynamon two ounces straine it through a woollen bagge or cloth without anie boiling and when the patient will vse it put thereto a little of the iuice of Citrons The syrupe of the iuce of Citrons excelleth amongst all others that are vsed against the Pestilence The vse of the Iulep following is also verie wholesome Take of the iuice of Sorrell well clarified halfe a pinte of the iuice of Lettuce so clarified foure ounces of the best hard Sugar one pound boile them together vnto a perfection let them be strained and clarified adding a little before the end a little vineger let it be vsed betweene meales with boyled water or with equall portions of the water of Sorrell Lettuce Scabious and Buglosse or take of this former described Iulep strained and clarified foure ounces let it be mixed with one pound of the forenamed cordiall waters and boile them together a little And when they are taken from the fire put thereto of yellow Sanders one dram of beaten Cinamon halfe a dram straine it through a cloth when it is cold let it bee giuen vnto the patient to drinke with the iuice of Citrons Those that haue accustomed to drinke Sider Perrie Beere or Ale ought to vse that drinke still so that it be clear transparent and thinne and made of those fruits that are somewhat tarte for troubled and dreggish drinke doth not onely engender grosse humors but also crudities windinesse and obstructions of the first region of the bodie whereof comes a feauer Oxycrate being giuen in manner following doth asswage the heate of the feauer and represse the putrefaction of the humors and the fiercenesse of the venome and also expelleth the water through the veines if so be that the patients are not troubled with spitting of bloud cough yexing and altogether weake of stomacke for such must auoid all tart things Take of faire water one quart of white or red Vineger three ounces of fine Suger foure ounces of Sirup of Roses two ounces boile them alittle and then giue the patient thereof to drinke Or Take of the iuice of Lemons and Citrons of each halfe an ounce of iuice of soure Pomegranats two ounces of the water of Sorrell and Roses of each one ounce of fair water boiled as much as shall suffice make therof a Iulep and vse it between meales Or take of Sirup of Lemons and of red Currance of each one ounce of the water of Lillies foure ounces of faire water boiled halfe a pinte make therof a Iulep Or Take of the syrups of water Lillies and Vineger of each halfe an ounce dissolve it in fiue ounces of the water of sorrell of faire water one pinte make thereof a Iulep But if the patient bee young and haue a strong and good stomacke and choloricke by natnre I thinke it not vnmeete for him to drinke a full and large draught of fountaine water cold for that is effectuall to restraine and quench the heate of the feauer and contrariwise they that drinke cold water often and a verie small quantitie at a time as the Smith doth sprinkle water on the fire at his forge doe increse the heate and burning and thereby make it endure the longer Therefore by the iudgement of Celsus when the disease is in the chiefe increase and the patient hath endured thirst for the space of three or foure dayes cold water must be giuen vnto him in great quantitie so that hee may drinke past his satietie that when his belly and stomacke are filled beyond measure and sufficiently cooled he may vomit Some doe not drinke so much thereof as may cause them to vomite but do drinke euen vnto satietie and so vse it for a cooling medicine but when either of these is done the patient must be couered with many clothes and so placed that he may sleepe and for the most part after long thirst and watching and after long fulnesse and long and great heate sound sleepe commeth by which great sweat is sent out and that is a present helpe But thirst must sometimes bee quenched with little peeces of Melons Gourds Cucumbers with the leaues of Lettuce Sorrell and purslane made moist or soked in cold water or with a little square peece of a Citron Lemon or Orange macerated in Rose water and sprinkled with sugar and so held in the mouth and then changed But if the patient be aged his strength weake phlegmaticke by nature and giuen to wine when the state of the feauer is somewhat past and the chiefe heate beginning to asswage he may drinke wine verie much delayed at his meate for to restore his strength and to supply the want of the wasted Spirits The patient ought not by anie meanes to suffer great thirst but must mitigate it by drinking or else allay it by washing his mouth with Oxicrate and such like and hee may therein also wash his hands and his face for that doth recreate the strength If the Fluxe or Laske troubel him he may verie well vse to drinke steeled water and also boiled milke wherein many stones comming red hot out of the fire haue beene manie times quenched For the drinesse and roughnesse of the mouth it is verie good to haue a cooling moistening and lenifying lotion of the mucilaginous water of the infusion of the seedes of Quinces Psilium id est Flea-wurt adding thereto a little Camphyre with the water of Plantaine and Roses then cleanse and wipe out the filth and then moisten the mouth by holding therein a little oyle of sweete Almonds mixed with a little sirup of Violets If the roughnesse doe breede or degenerate into Vlcers they must be touched with the water of the infusion of sublimate or Aqua fortis CHAP. XV. Of Antidotes to be vsed in the Plague NOw we must entreate of the proper cure of this disease which must bee vsed as soone as may bee possible because this kinde of poison in swiftnesse exceedes the celeritie of the medicine
Fogges or Mists and the nocturnall obscuritie then to take it in the morning with a draught of good Wine for it being aboundantly diffused presently ouer all the Body filles vp the passages thereof and strengheneth it in a moment For Water if the Plague proceed from the tainture of the Aire we must wholly shun and auoid Raine-water because it cannot but be infected by the contagion of the Aire Wherefore the Water of Springs and of the deepest Welles are thought best But if the malignitie proceed from the vapours contained in the Earth you must make choyse of Raine-water Yet it 's more safe to digest euerie sort of Water by boyling it and to preferre that Water before other which is pure and cleerer to the sight and without either tast or smell and which besides suddainly takes the extremest mutation of heat and cold CHAP. VII Of the Cordiall Remedies by which we may preserue our Bodyes in feare of the Plague and cure those already infected there-with SVch as cannot eat without much labour exercise and hunger and who are no louers of Breakefasts hauing euacuated their Excrements before they goe from home must strengthen the Heart with some Antidote against the virulencie of the Infection Amongst which Aqua Theriacalis or Treacle Water two Ounces with the like quantitie of Sacke is much commended being drunke and rubbing the Nose-thrils Mouth and Eares with the same for the Treacle Water strengthens the Heart expels Poyson and is not onely good for a preseruatiue but also to cure the Disease it selfe For by sweat it driues forth the Poyson contained within It should be made in Iune at which time all simple Medicines by the vitall heat of the Sunne are in their greatest efficacie The composition whereof is thus Take the Roots of Gentian Cyperus Tormentill Diptam or Fraxinella Elecampaine of each one Ounce the Leaues of Mullet Carduus Benedictus Diuels-bit Burnet Scabious Sheepes Sorrell of each halfe a Handfull of the tops of Rue a little quantitie Mirtle Berries one Ounce of Red Rose Leaues the Flowres of Buglosse Borage and S t Iohns Wurt of each one Ounce let them be all cleansed dryed and macerated for the space of 24 houres in one pound of White Wine or Malmsey and of Rose Water or Sorrell Water then let them be put in a Vessell of Glasse and add thereto of Treacle and Methridate of each foure Ounces then distill them in Balneo Mariae and let the distilled Water be receiued in a Glasse Viall and let there be added thereto of Saffron two Drammes of Bole Armenicke Terra Sigillata Yellow Sanders Shauings of Iuorie and Harts-horne of each halfe an Ounce then let the Glasse be well stopped and set in the Sunne for the space of eight or tenne dayes Let the prescribed quantitie be taken euerie morning so oft as shall be needfull It may be giuen without hurt to sucking Children and to Women great with Child But that it may be the more pleasant it must be strayned thorough an Hippocras Bagge adding thereto some Sugar and Cynnamon Some thinke themselues sufficiently defended with a Root of Elecampaine Zedoarie or Angelica rowled in their Mouth or chawed betweene their Teeth Others drinke euerie morning one Dramme of the Root of Gentian brused being macerated for the space of one night in two Ounces of White Wine Others doe take Worme-wood Wine Others sup vp in a rere Egge one Dramme of Terra Sigillata or of Harts-horne with a little Saffron and drinke two Ounces of Wine after it There be some that doe infuse Bole Armenicke the Roots of Gentian Tormentill Diptam the Berryes of Iuniper Cloues Mace Cynnamon Saffron and such like in Aqua Vitae and strong White Wine and so distill it in Balneo Mariae This Cordiall Water that followeth is of great virtue Take of the Roots of the long and round Aristolochia Tormentill Diptam of each three Drammes of Zedoarie two Drammes Lignum Aloes Yellow Sanders of each one Dramme of the Leaues of Scordium S t Iohns Wurt Sorrell Rue Sage of each halfe an Ounce of Bay and Iuniper Berryes of each three Drammes Cytron Seeds one Dramme of Cloues Mace Nutmegs of each two Drammes of Masticke Olibanum Bole Armenicke Terra Sigillata Shauings of Harts-horne and Iuorie of each one Ounce of Saffron one Scruple of the Conserues of Roses Buglosse Flowers Water Lillyes and old Treacle of each one Ounce of Camphire halfe a Dramme of Aqua Vitae halfe a pint of White Wine two pints and a halfe make thereof a distillation in Balneo Mariae The vse of this distilled Water is euen as Treacle Water is The Electuarie following is verie effectuall Take of the best Treacle three Ounces Iuniper berries and Carduus Seeds of each one Dramme and a halfe of Bole Armenicke prepared halfe an Ounce of the Powder of the Electuarie De Gemmis and Diamargariton Frigidum the Powder of Harts-horne and Red Corall of each one Dramme mixe them with the Sirrupe of the Rinds and Iuyce of Pome-citrons as much as shall suffice and make thereof a liquid Electuarie in the forme of an Opiate let them take euerie morning the quantitie of a Filberd drinking after it two Drammes of the Water of Scabions Cherryes Carduus Benedictus and of some such like cordiall things or of strong Wine The following Opiate is also verie profitable which also may be made into Tablets Take of the Roots of Angelica Gentian Zedoarie Elecampaine of each two Drammes of Cytron and Sorrell Seeds of each halfe a Dramme of the dryed Rinds of Cytrous Cinnamon Bay and Iuniper Berryes and Saffron of each one Scruple of Conserue of Roses and Buglosse of each one Ounce of fine hard Sugar as much as is sufficient make thereof Tablets of the weight of halfe a Dramme let him take one of them two houres before meat Or make thereof an Opiate with equall parts of Conserues of Buglosse and Mel Anthosatum and so adding all the rest dry and in Powder Or take of the Roots of Valerian Tormentill Diptam of the Leaues of Rue of each halfe an Ounce of Saffron Mace Nutmegs of each halfe a Dramme of Bole Armenicke prepared halfe an Ounce of Conserue of Roses and Sirupe of Lemons as much as will be sufficient to make thereof an Opiate liquid enough Or take of the Roots of both the Aristolochia's of Gentian Tormentill Diptam of each one Dramme and a halfe of Ginger three Drammes of the Leaues of Rue Sage Mints and Peny-royall of each two Drammes of Bay and Iuniper Berries Citron Seeds of each foure Scruples of Mace Nutmegs Cloues Cinnamon of each two Drammes of Lignum Aloes and Yellow Saunders of each one Dramme of Male Frankincense i. Olibanum Masticke shauings of Harts-horne and Iuorie of each two Scruples of Saffron halfe a Dramme of Bole Armenicke Terra Sigillata Red Corall Pearle of each one Dramme of Conserues of Roses Buglosse Flowers Water Lillyes and old Treacle of each one Ounce of Loafe
be obserued and first of the choyce of Meats THE order of Dyet in a Pestilent disease ought to be cooling and drying not slender but some-what full Because by this kind of Disease there commeth wasting of the Spirits and exolution of the Faculties which inferreth often swounding therefore that losse must be repaired as soone as may be with more quantitie of Meats that are of easie concoction and digestion Therefore I neuer saw any being infected with the Pestilence that kept a slender dyet that recouered his health but dyed and few that had a good stomacke and fed well dyed Sweet grosse moyst and clammy Meats which are altogether and exquisitely of subtile parts are to be auoyded for the sweet doe easily take Fier and are soone inflamed the moyst will putrefie the grosse and clammy obstruct and therefore ingender putrefaction those meats that are of subtile parts ouer-much attenuate the humors and inflame them and doe stirre vp hot and sharpe vapors into the Brayne whereof commeth the Feauer Therefore we must eschew Garlike Onions Mustard Salted and spiced Meats and all kinds of Puls must also be auoyded because they ingender grosse winds which are the authors of obstruction but the decoction of them is not alwayes to be refused because it is a prouoker of Vrine Therefore let this be their order of Dyet Let their Bread be of Wheat or Barly well wrought well leauened and salted neither too new nor too stale Let them be fed with such Meat as may be easily concocted and digested and may engender much laudable iuyce and verie little excrementall as are the Flesh of Weather Lambes Calues Kidds Leuerets Pullets Partriches Pigeons Thrushes Larkes Quailes Blacke Birds Turtle Doues Moore Hennes Phesants and such like auoyding Water Foules Let the Flesh be moystned in Veriuyce of vn-ripe Grapes Vineger or the iuyce of Lemmons Oranges Cytrons tart Pomegranats Barberyes Gooseberryes or red Currance or of Garden and wild Sorrell for all these sowre things are verie wholesome in this kind of Disease for they doe stirre vp the appetite resist the venomous qualitie and putrefaction of the humours restraine the heat of the Feauer and prohibite the corruption of the meats in the stomacke Although that those that haue a more weake stomacke and are endewed with a more exact sence are subiect to the Cough and Diseases of the Lungs must not vse these vnlesse they be mixed with Sugar and Cynnamon If the Patient at any time be fed with sodden Meats let the Broathes be made with Lettuce Purslaine Succorie Borage Sorrell Hoppes Buglosse Cresses Burnet Marigolds Cheruill the cooling Seeds Barley and Oates cleansed with a little Saffron for Saffron doth engender many Spirits and resisteth Poyson To these opening Roots may be added for to auoyd obstruction yet much Broath must be refused by reason of moysture The Fruit of Capers being eaten in the beginning of the Meale prouoke the appetite and prohibite obstructions but they ought not to be seasoned with ouer-much Oyle Salt they may also with good successe be put in Broathes Fishes are altogether to be auoyded because they doe soone corrupt in the Stomacke but if the Patient be delighted with them those that liue in stony places must be chosen that is to say those that doe liue in pure and sandy Water and about Rocks and Stones as are Trowts Pikes Pearches Gudgions and Crauises boiled in Milke Wilks and such like And concerning Sea-Fish he may be fed with Giltheads Gurnarts with all the kinds of Cod-fish Whitings not seasoned with Salt and Turbuts Fagges potched and eaten with the iuyce of Sorrell are very good Likewise Barley Water seasoned with the Graynes of a tart Pomegranate and if the Feauer be vehement with the Seeds of white Poppey Such Barley Water is easie to be concocted and digested it cleanses greatly and moystens and mollifies the Belly But in some it procures an appetite to vomit and paine of the Head and those must abstaine from it But in stead of Barley Water they may vse Pappe and Bread crummed in the decoction of a Capon For the second course let him haue Raysons of the Sun newly sodden in Rose Water with Sugar soure Damaske Prunes tart Cherryes Pippins and Katherine Peares And in the latter end of the Meale Quinces rosted in Embers Marmelate of Quinces Conserues of Buglosse or of Roses and such like may be taken Or else this Powder following Take of Coriander Seeds prepared two Drammes of Pearle Rose Leaues shauings of Harts-Horne and Iuory of each halfe a Dramme of Amber two Scruples of Cynnamon one Scruple of Vnicornes Horne and the Bone in a Stagges Heart of each halfe a Scruple of Sugar of Roses foure Ounces Make thereof a Powder and vse it after Meats If the Patient be some-what weake he must be fed with Gelly made of the Flesh of a Capon and Veale sodden together in the Water of Sorrell Carduus Benedictus with a little quantitie of Rose Vineger Cynnamon Sugar and other such like as the present necessitie shall seeme to require In the night season for all euents and mischances the Patient must haue ready prepared Broath of Meats of good digestion with a little of the iuyce of Citrons or Pomegranates This Restauratiue that followeth may serue for all Take of the Conserue of Buglosse Borage Violets Water Lillyes and Succory of each two Ounces of the Powder of the Electuarie Diamargaritum Frigidum of the Trochisces of Camphire of each three drams of Citron seedes Carduus seedes Sorrell seedes the rootes of Diptamnus Tormentill of each two drams of the broth of a young Capon made with Lettuce Purselaine Buglosse and Borraged boile in it sixe pintes put them in a Lembecke of glasse with the flesh of two Pullets of so manie Partridges and with fifteene leaues of pure gold make thereof a distillation ouer a soft fier Then take of the distilled liquor halfe a pinte straine it through a woollen bagge with two ounces of white Sugar and halfe a dram of Cinamon let the patient vse this when he is thirstie Or else put the flesh of one old Capon and of a legge of Veale two minced Partridges and two drams of whole Cinamon without anie liquor in a lembecke of glasse well luted and couered and so let them boile in Balueo Mariae vnto the perfect concoction For so the fleshes will be boiled in their owne iuice without any hurt of the fier then let the iuice bee pressed out therehence with a presse giue the patient for euery dose one ounce of the iuice with some cordiall waters some Trisantalum and Diamargaritum frigidum The preserues of sweete fruits are to bee auoided because that sweete things turne into cholor but the confections of tart Prunes Cherries and such like may be fitly vsed But because there is no kinde of sickenesse that so weakens the strength as the Plague it is alwaies necessarie but yet sparingly and often to feede the patient still hauing
tied with bands and sponges wet in Oxycrate must be put vnder the arme-holes cupping-glasses must be applied vnto the dugges the region of the liuer and spleene and you must put into the nostrels the doune of the Willow tree or anie other astringent medicine incorporated with the haires pluckt from the flanke belly or throat of a Hare bole Armenicke Terra sigillata the iuice of Plantain and Knotgrasse mixed together and furthermore the patient must be placed or laied in a coole place But if the pain be nothing mitigated notwithstanding all these fluxes of bloud wee must come to medicines that procure sleepe whose formes are these Take of greene Lettuce one handfull flowers of water Lillies and Violets of each two pugils one head of white Poppy bruised of the foure cold seedes of each two drams of Liquoris and Raisons of each one dramme make thereof a decoction and in the straining dissolue one ounce and an halfe of Diacodion make thereof a large potion to bee giuen when they goe to rest Also a Barly-creame may bee prepared in the water of water Lillies and Sorrell of each two ounces adding thereto sixe or eight graines of Opium of the foure cold seedes and of white Poppie seedes of each halfe an ounce and let the same bee boiled in broths with Lettuce and Purslane also the Pils de Cynoglosso idest Hounds tongue may be giuen Clisters that prouoke sleepe must be vsed which may be thus prepared Take of Barly-water halfe a pinte oile of Violets and water-Lillies of each two ounces of the water of Plantaine and Purselaine or rather of their iuices three ounces of Camphire seuen graines and the whites of three egges make thereof a Clister The head must be fomented with Rose-vineger the haire being first shauen away leauing a double cloth wet therein on the same and often renewed Sheepes lungs taken warme out of the bodies may bee applied to the head as long as they are warme Cupping-glasses with scarrification and without scarrification may be applied vnto the necke and shoulder-blades The armes and legges must bee strongly bound being first well rubbed to diuert the sharpe vapours and humors from the head Frontals may also bee made on this manner Take of the oyle of Roses and water-Lillies of each two ounces of the oile of Poppey halfe an ounce of Opium one dramme of Rose-vineger one ounce of Camphire halfe a dram mixe them together Also Nodules may bee made of the flowers of Poppies Henbane water-Lillies Mandrakes beaten in Rose-water with a little Vineger and a little Camphire and let them be often applied to the nostrels for this purpose Cataplasmes also may bee laid to the forehead As Take of the mucilage of the seedes of Psilium id est Fleawort and Quince seedes extracted in Rose-water three ounces of Barly meale foure ounces of the pouder of Rose leaues the flowers of water-Lillies and Violets of each halfe an ounce of the seedes of Poppies and Purflaine of each two ounces of the water and vineger of Roses of each three ounces make thereof a Cataplasine and apply it warme vnto the head Or Take of the iuice of Lettuce water-Lillies Henbaine Purselaine of each halfe a pinte of Rose leaues in pouder the seedes of Poppie of each halfe an ounce oyle of Roses three ounces of Vineger two ounces of Barly meale as much as shall suffice make thereof a Cataplasme in the forme of a liquid Pultis When the heate of the head is mitigated by these medicines the inflammation of the braine asswaged we must come vnto digesting and resoluing fomentations which may disperse the matter of the vapours But commonly in paine of the head they doe vse to binde the forehead and hinder part of the head verie strongly which in this case must bee auoided CHAP. XIX Of the Erruptiou and spotts which commonly are called by the name of Purples and Tokens IN Pestilent feauers the skinne is marked and variegated in diuerse places with spotts like vnto the bitings of Fleas or Gnats which are not alwaies simple but many times arise in forme like vnto a graine of millet The more spots appeare the better it is for the patient they are of diuerse colours according to the virulency of the malignity and condition of the matter as red yellow browne violet or purpule blew blacke And because for the most part they are of a purple colour therefore wee callthem Purples Others call them Lenticulae because they haue the colour and forme of lentills They are also called Papiliones i Butterflies because they doe suddainly seaze or fall vpon diuerse regions of the body like vnto winged Butterflies sometimes the face sometimes the armes and leggs and sometimes all the whole body oftentimes they doe not onely affect the vpper part of the skinne but goe deeper into the flesh specially when they proceed of matter that is grosse and adust They doe sometimes appeare great and broad affecting the whole arme legge or face like vnto an Erysipelas to conclude they are diuerse according to the variety of the humour that offends in quality or quantity If they are of a purple or blacke colour with often sounding and sinke in sodainly without any manifest cause they foreshew death The cause of the breaking out of those spotts is the working or heate of the bloud by reason of the cruelty of the venom receiued or admitted They often arise at the beginning of a Pestilent feauer many times before the breaking out of the Sore or Botch or Carbuncle and many times after but then they shew so greata corruption of the humors in the body that neither the Sores nor Carbuncles will suffice to receaue them and therefore they appeare as fore-runners of death Sometimes they breake out alone without a Botch or Carbuncle which if they be redde and haue no euill Symptomes ioyned with them they are not wont to proue deadly they appeare for the most part on the third or fourth day of the dissease and sometimes later and sometimes they appeare not before the patient bee dead because the working or heate of the humors being the ofspring of putrefaction is not as yet restrayned and ceased Wherefore then principally the putrid heate which is greatest a little before the death of the patient driues the excrementall humors which are the matter of the spotts vnto the skin or else because nature in the last conflict hath contended with some greater endeuour then before which is common to all things that are ready to dye a little before the instant time of death the Pestilent humor being presently driuen vnto the skinne and nature thus weakened by this extreame conflict falleth downe prostrate and is quite ouerthrowne by the remnant of the matter CHAP. XX. Of the cure of Eruptions and Spotts YOu must first of all take heede lest you driue in the humor that is comming outwards with repercussiues Therefore beware of cold all purging things Phlebotomy and drowsie or sound
absolued and perfected which may be also done by the application of the following ointment Take of Vnguentum Dialthaea one ounce and a halfe oile of Scorpions halfe an ounce of Mithridate dissolued in Aquavitae halfe a dramme this liniment will verie well relaxe and loosen the skinne open the pores thereof and spend forth portion of that matter which the Cupping-glasse hath drawne thither in stead thereof mollifying fomentations may bee made and other drawing and suppurating medicines which shall bee described hereafter A Vesicatorie applied in a meete place below the Bubo profits verie much but not aboue as for example If the Bubo be in the throate the Vesicatorie must be applied vnto the shoulder blade on the same side if it bee in the arme-holes it must be applied in the middest of the arme or of the shoulder bone on the inner side if in the groine in the middest of the thigh on the inner side that by the double passage that is open for to draw out the matter the part wherein the venome is gathered together may bee the better exonerated Spurge Crow-foot Arsmart Beare-foote Brionie the middle barke of Trauellers-ioy the rindes of mullet Flammula or vpright Virgines-bower are fit for raising blisters If you cannot come by those simple medicines you may apply this that followeth which may be prepared at all times Take Cantharides Pepper Euphorbium Pellitory of Spaine of each halfe a dramme of soure Leauen two drams of Mustard one dramme and a little Vineger the Vineger is added thereto to withhold or restraine the vehemencie of the Cantharides but in want of this medicine it shall suffice to droppe scalding oyle or water or a burning candle or to lay a burning cole on the place for so you may raise blisters which must presently bee cut away and you must see that you keepe the vlcers open and flowing as long as you can by applying the leaues of red Coleworts Beetes or Iuie dipped in warme water and anointed with oyle or fresh butter Some apply Cauteries but Vesicatories worke with more speede for before the Eschar of the Cauteries will fall away the patient may die therefore the vlcers that are made with vesicatories will suffice to euacuate the pestilent venome because that doth worke rather by its qualitie than its quantitie Let the abscesse bee fomented as it is shewed before and then let the medicine following which hath vertue to draw bee applied Fill a great onion being hollowed with Treacle and the leaues of Rue then rost it vnder the hote embers beate it with a little Leauen and a little Swines grease and so apply it warme vnto the abscesse or sore let it be changed euery sixe hours Or Take the rootes of Marsh-mallowes and Lillies of each halfe a pound of Line Foenigreeke and Mustard seedes of each halfe an ounce of Treacle one dram tenne figges and as much hogges grease as shall suffice make thereof a Cataplasme according to Arte. Or Take of Onions and Garlicke rosted in the embers of each three ounces bruise them with one ounce of soure Leauen adding thereto Vuguentum Basilicon one ounce Treacle one dramme Mithridate halfe a dramme of old hogges grease one ounce of Cantharides in powder one scruple of Pigeons doung two drams beate them and mixe them together into the forme of a Cataplafme Hereunto old Rennet is verie profitable for it is hot and therefore atractiue beeing mixed with old Leauen Basilicon you ought to vse these vntil the abscesse be growne vnto its full ripenesse and bignesse but if presently after the beginning there be great inflammation with sharpe paine as it often happeneth especially when the abscesses be of the kinde of Carbuncles wee must abstaine from those remedies that are hot and attractiue and also from these that are verie emplasticke and clammie because they doe altogether close the pores of the skinne or because they doe resolue the thinner part of the collected matter which if it might remaine would bring the other sooner to suppuration or else because they may perchance draw more quantitie of the hot matter than the part can beare whereof commeth rather corruption than maturation and last of all because they encrease the Feauer and paine which inferreth danger of a Conuulsion or mortall Gangrene Therefore in such a case it is best to vse cold and temperate locall medicines as the leaues of Henbane and Sorrell rosted vnder the coles Galens pultis and such like There are manie that for feare of death haue with their owne hands pulled away the Bubo with a paire of Smiths pincers others haue digged the flesh round about it and so gotten it wholly out And to conclude others haue become so madde that they haue thrust an hot iron into it with their owne hand that the venome might haue a passage forth of all which I doe not allow one for such abscesses doe not come from without as the bitings of virulent beasts but from within and moreouer because paine is by these meanes encreased and the humor is made more maligne and fierce Therefore I thinke it sufficient to vse medicines that doe relaxe open the pores of the skinne and digest portion of the venome by transpiration as are these that follow Take the rootes of Marsh-mallowes and Lillies of each sixe ounces of Chamomill and Melilote flowers of each halfe an handfull of Linne seedes halfe an ounce of the leaues of Rue halfe an handfull boile them and straine them dip spunges in the straining and there with let the rumor bee fomented a long time Or Take the crumme of hot bread and sprinkle it with treacle-Treacle-water or with Aqud vitae and Cowes milke or Goates milke and the yelkes of three egges put them all on stupes or flaxe and apply them warme vnto the place Or Take of soure Rie leauen foure ounces of Basilicon two ounces three yelkes of egges oile of Lillies two ounces Treacle one dramme let it bee receiued on stupes and applied in like manner Or Take of Diachylon and Basilicon of each two ounces oile of Lillies one ounce and halfe let them be melted and mixed together and let it be applied as is abouesaid When you see feele and know according to reason that the Bubo is come to perfect suppuration it must be opened with an incision knife or an actuall or potentiall Cauterie but it is best to bee done with a potentiall Cauterie vnlesse that happely there be great inflammation because it doth draw the venome from beneath vnto the superficiall parts and maketh a larger orifice for the matter that is contained therein neither must it bee looked for that nature should open it of her selfe for then it were danger that lest while nature doth worke slowly a venemous vapour should be stirred vp which striking the heart by the arteries the braine by the nerues and the liuer by the veines causeth a new encrease of the venemous infection For feare whereof there bee some that will not expect