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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A33533	Hygieinē, or, A plain and practical discourse upon the first of the six non-naturals, viz, air with cautionary rules and directions for the preservation of people in this time of sickness, very necessary for the gentry and citizens that are now in the country to peruse before they come into London / by Tho. Cock.	Cock, Thomas.	1665 (1665)	Wing C4791; ESTC R24767	18,295	42

Cautions and Directions added but I intend no more then what are familiar practical and necessary Besides the chief business I aim at is the Preservatory part which as it consists in avoiding those things 1. That occasion Infection So 2. In fortifying the Principal parts against Infection The former we have done with and take it for granted as it is agreed on all hands that corrupt Air whether from Coelestial or Terrestrial Causes being drawn into the body is one principal cause of Infection especially in Pestilential times and because this Discourse is intended for People returning and already returned out of a good Air into a bad I shall only insist upon some farther means and Remedies as relates to the correcting Air infected and the preserving quo ad nos both by inward and outward means Persons from Infection To the first sort as general and more common doth belong the ringing of Bells firing and letting off great Guns Fires and Bon-fires made severally both with Wood and Coal as before directed the cutting open the Pipes in great Streets for the running of clean and fresh Water Allies narrow Streets and Lanes to be kept sweet and clean and free from the annoyance of Dunghils Jakes and other nastery the carkasses of Dogs Cats and other Carrion to be deep buried and not to lye rotting and poysoning the Air. Where the Air is thus corrupted we commonly see people there die in greatest numbers and where these greivances are not nor can be reformed 't is good to stay within doors as much as possible may be and to smoke the House well with Rosin Tarre Turpentine and other materials directed in the Colledge Books good large fires also in infected houses rather then in those that are free would be very advantageous to neighbours that dwell next to them Lastly leave no Window open to the South to the North you may in quiet pleasant and clear dayes but keep them all constantly close shut after the Sun is down in regard they only then draw like Cupping-glasses bad air into the rooms unto which they do belong neither go out too soon in a morning especially fasting or some Preventive taken of which hereafter nor be abroad too late at night not only because the Sun then hath drawn off its beneficence and blessing from the Earth but because people will make most bold then to be throwing out of doors and windows whatever infectious and noisom things incumber their houses Thus far for Generals and things more common against infected Air next are things more peculiar and special both inward and outward of which sort are Antidotes Issues Amulets and Odoraments under which are comprehended Balls Boxes Nosegaies Pomanders and all manner of Nasals The first of these we will reserve till the last and as for Issues they are without controversie of great value and worth and inferiour to no Topical application whatever If I should write all that they may justly challenge there would be no end of their consideration and I have and do advise all my friends Old and Young Fat and Lean Weak and Strong without any exception to use them this being the only 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the world may boast of Amulets have not as yet gained that universal and uncontrolled repute in the World Galen saith as Deleteries they are inimical to Nature especially if the party that wears them be given to much labour exercise or motion neither can I advise such if any with hope of good success to use them but suppose they be made of Alexeteries then Galen nor any judicious person doth or ever did dispute or question them And those that have written and argued not without cause against Deleterious and poysonous Amulets made of Toads Arsenick Quicksilver c. yet do they highly allow of such as are Alexiterical and Cardiack And such as shall deny their safe and effectual operation with this distinction deny for want of better understanding a manifest truth in common practice The next thing to be considered is the vulgar use of Balls Boxes Nosegaies Pomanders c. which to speak impartially and as I suppose most peoples experience by this time may tell them are poor impotent foppish and impertinent things the very form manner and moderum of them being insignificant people having them to seek and grope for when the occasion may be at hand or while it is past all persons are not nor indeed can any be so compleatly wise as to know the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the unluckie minute precise time and place when where and wherefore he should apply his nasal whereas this manner of application I now propound viz. in rubbing the Nostrils with some convenient Alexiterion is remedium perpetuum alwayes doing good sleeping and waking eating and drinking at home and abroad like a Watch wound up in the morning whether you think of it or no still goes on and doth its work The greatest consideration and provision that can be made will be little enough to avoid the occasions of infection which may surprize you instanti in a moment the twinckling of an eye ere you can say What 's this and therefore there cannot be too much done to keep the passages at which the Enemy must enter to take us And of Topicks and outward helps there is none extant as yet or ever will be thought on more effectual in stead of Balls Boxes and Nosegaies c. than the rubbing the inside of the Nostrills with a little Venice Treacle Mithridate but above all Diascordium as being more agreeable to the Tone and temperature of the brain or take a piece of Sponge or Wool cut it fit for the occasion dip it in Vinegar and smear it with Venice or Common Turpentine that it may stick and put it up the Nostrills And I do solemnly advise all persons that have any respect to their health and safety when they come within a mile or two of London to keep constantly a Lozange in their mouth how to use them is hereafter directed and to put up into their Nostrills some Diascordium if a little Bole Armenack be mixt with it 't is the better The Mouth and Nostrils being secured you are as safe as Natural helps can make you these being the two passages at which Infection must enter Continue doing this for three or four weeks at least longer is necessary but people grow weary of well-doing by this means there will be little or no danger in your coming to and living in the City And having made this provision I can confidently advise all persons Cito Tuto speedily and safely according as their lawful and necessary affairs shall permit to return to their former habitations But here a grand Query and Objection of the Times is to be taken notice of and that is Whether sweet or foetid scents are best against Infection That which occasions the scruple by all that I can observe is a supposition that sweet scents attract and

Relations and Friends unto And first and above all things when I awake in the morn I humbly worship and devoutly thank God for preserving me the night past then I frequently gargle my throat wash my Mouth Hands Nostrils Temples Ears and fore-head with Vinegar and Water wherein if Nutmegs Orris Angelica Ruc Rosemary Balm Lavender Mint Masterwort Sage Setival Zedoary Orange Pill these or any of these are kept continually steept for use 't is the better When in my Chamber and about the house I burn the Pastil or Fume before mentioned When I go abroad outwardly I use Diascordium to my Nostrils and inwardly I take two or three Lozanges letting them dissolve in my mouth and so swallow them as they melt which by fixing humours and contracting the orifice of the stomach and passages that lead to it hinder thereby malignant air from entring into the inward parts and wonderfully strengthen the heart to resist sudden death They are necessary upon this occasion for all persons at all times and places but chiefly in Churches and all places of publick resort This Lozange I have given an accompt of in a former printed paper and it hath been used with as much success as any one Remedy about London all along this sickness in the main I own Galen to be the Author of it who with little variation made use of it himself in the great and dreadful Plague at Rome and tells us that none miscarried that made use of it peradventure he means none that ever he knew of and yet for a Preventive they have and will do as much as God and Nature will permit And so far was I from concealing them for private ends and interest that I then published the composition of them for publike use and benefit and not only my own but many Apothecaties about London prepared them though not so exactly and truly as I could have wished which hath made me since often repent their publishing There is two or three Diseases more that this Lozange is eminently good for as well as this we have mentioned viz. Worms and Convulsions in children two or three of them being beaten to powder and given in any convenient Vehicle also Vertigo or giddiness Hysterical vapours or Fits of the Mother Consumptive Coughs and Catarrhs caused by a thin distillation of hot acid and salt humours falling upon the Lungs from the head if the Rhume be hot 't is sharp and thin and in this case you will find them of excellent use and great worth using also the outward helps of fumes and scents as formerly directed By this means or rather Gods Mercies à quo omnis salus medicina I am still alive though I dayly conversed with the dangers of the times and refused none that I might encourage all to use the means which I were capable of serving not that I do wish any so absolutely to reply upon these as to expose themselves by the use thereof or any other means to more dangers than are unavoidable because Gods Protection is the best Preventive which men justly forfeit in being too careless or too confident neither can a good event be expected upon any bold rash and unreasonable adventures or wilful contempt and neglect of the means which hath occasioned the destruction of thousands in this Infection The Conclusion ANd summ of all reduc'd to practice is that all such persons as are now in the Countries and are to return to the City would in the fear of God make use of such necessary and reasonable helps as are propounded for their preservation in the foregoing Treatise Unum è majoribus or one of the chief of which indeed that first occasioned this discourse is that before they come so near London as to receive its infection they would put up into their Nostrils a bit of Sponge dipt in Venice Turpentine and Vinegar of Roses as in pag. 15. and keep a Lozange constantly in their mouth swallowing it down as it dissolves and before they enter their houses either to get them well aired by others or else to do it themselves as is directed in the second Caution and in the 6 page of this Treatise The Terebinth for their Nostrils may be had at any Apothecaries in every Country Town the Lozange and Pastil requiring nine or ten dayes at least to prepare and compleat it could not be otherwise or more conveniently ordered and therefore I have taken care that they shall be in a readiness at better and easier rates than people can provide them at Mr. Reads an Apothecary c. and at those places where they are directed in the Title page for to have the Books And to this end it is necessary and concerns such as are in London and have their friends in the Country to give them timely notice of it and to take care they may have one of the Books to peruse at their leisure for their preservation and health which undoubtedly God permits the sons of men as the reward and recompence of their prudence care and vertues 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The POST-SCRIPT To the READER THis publike Calamity like a great and common fire hath occasioned all men though more immediately some Physitians to bestir themselves and cast about for water as it were to quench and put it out But as this is one of Gods Jura Regalia and not to be undertaken but with great reverence circumspection awe and subordination to his will yet natural helps upon Gods terms which because not better to be improved I choose in the very words of Sirach to his son Jesus thus to express In thy sickness be not negligent but pray unto the Lord and he will make thee whole Leave off from sin and order thy wayes aright and cleanse thy heart from all wickedness Then give place to the Physitian for the Lord hath created him let not him go from thee for thou hast need of him The hour may come that their endeavours may have good success for they also shall pray unto the Lord that he would prosper that which is given for the prolonging of life for the Lord hath created Medicines out of the Earth and he that is wise will not abhorr them and he hath given men skill that he might be honoured in his marvellous works for of the MOST HIGH cometh healing Upon these considerations I have brought forth my two Water-pots one formerly relating to the Curative this to the Preventive part of Physick if any one drop of either hath or shall do good let God be glorified This Treatise and that only diminute is in relation to the Preservative part of Physick or Conservation of health which all people safely may and ought to know and consider of to the utmost The other parts of Physick which I have omitted like School-Divinity is better let alone and concealed than medled with the difficulties of Physick being as dangerous as doubtful disputations and in both nihil plus periculi quam