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A22844	Certaine statutes especially selected, and commanded by his Maiestie to be carefully put in execution by all iustices, and other officers of the peace throughout the realme with his Maiesties proclamation for further direction for executing the same. Also certaine orders thought meete by his Maiestie and his Priuie Counsell, to bee put in execution, together with sundry good rules, preseruatiues, and medicines against the infection of the plague, set downe by the Colledge of the Physicians vpon his Maiesties speciall command: as also a decree of the Starre-Chamber, concerning buildings and in-mates.; Laws, etc.	England and Wales.; England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I); Royal College of Physicians of London.	1630 (1630)	STC 9342; ESTC S125901	56,831	142

weight of sixe pence put in the pappe of an Apple and for the richer Pilles of Rufus to be had in euery Apothecaries Shop ¶ Blood-letting IF the Patient be full of humors which be good let him immediatly bee Let-blood vpon the Liuer Veine in the right arme or in the Median Veine of the same Arme if no Sore appeare in the first day Such as are tyed to necessary attendance on the infected as also such as liue in Visited houses shall doe well to cause Issues to be made in their left Armes or right Legs or both as the Doctor shall thinke fit For Blood-letting Purging and making of Issues there must be particular directions had from the Doctors according to the constitution of the parties These preparations thus vsed the first day that the patient shall fall sicke as cause shall 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 Medicines Expulsiue THe poyson is expelled best by sweatings prouoked by Posset-ale made with Fennell and Marigolds in Winter and with Sorrell Buglosse and Borage in Summer with the which in both times they must mixe the Treacle of Diatessaroū the weight of nine pence so to lay themselues with all quietnes to sweat one halfe houre or an houre if they bee strong For they that be neither full of humors nor corrupt in humors neither need purging nor letting of blood but at the first plunge may mooue themselues to sweate with Cordiall things mixt with such things as mooue sweat Medicines Internall FOr the Cure of the Infected vpon the first apprehension Burre Seedes Cucheneely powder of Harts-horne Citron Seedes one or more of them with a few graines of Camphire are good to be giuen in Carduus or Dragon water or with some Treacle water As thus TAke Burre Seeds and Cucheneely of each halfe a dramme or to a weake bodie of each one scruple Camphire fiue graines mixe these with two ounces of Carduus or Dragon water halfe an ounce of Treacle water Sirup of Wood-Sorrell a spoonefull mixe these giue it the Patient warme couer him to sweate you may giue him a second draught after twelue houres let him drinke no cold drinke this posset drinke or the like will be good to giue the visited liberally Take Wood-sorrell halfe a handfull Marigold Flowers halfe so much shauings of Harts-horne three drammes a Figge or two sliced boile them well in cleare Posset-drinke let them drinke thereof freely you may put thereto a little Sugar Another TAke Citron seeds sixe or eight shauings of Harts-horne halfe a dramme London Treacle one drame mixe them with two ounces of Carduus Water or with three ounces of the prescribed posset drinke drinke it warme and so lye to sweat Another TAke Sorrell-water fiue or sixe spoonefuls Treacle-water one spoonefull London Treacle one dramme and a halfe mixe them well giue it warme and so lay the patient to sweat Take Tormentil and Celandine roots of each foure ounces Scabious and Rue of each one handfull and a halfe White Wine Vineger three pints boyle these till one pinte be wasted straine out the liquor which reserue for the vse of the infected let it be taken thus Take of this liquor of C●s Water of each one ounce and a halfe London Treacle one dramme and a halfe Bol●-Armoniake halfe a scruple put thereto a little Sugar mixe them well let the partie drinke it warme and couer him to sweat In Summer this is good TAke the iuyce of Wood-Sorrell two ounces the iuyce of Limons one ounce Diascordi●m one dramme Cinamo● sixe graines Vineger halfe an ounce giue it warme and lay the ●ic●e part● to sweat Take ●n ●gge and make a hole in the top of it take out the white and yolke fill the shell with the weight of two French crownes of Saffron roste the said Egge thus ●lled with Saffron vnder the Embers vntill the shell begin to wa●e yellow then take it from the fire and ●eat the shell and Saffron in a morter together with halfe a spoonefull of Mustard seed take of this powder a French Crowne weight and assoone as you suspect your selfe infected dissolue it into ten spoonefuls of Posset-Ale and drinke it lukewarme then goe to bed and prouoke your selfe to sweating Another is to take 〈…〉 of Sorrell that groweth in the ●d or a greater quantity according as you will 〈◊〉 more ●s lesse of the water thereof a●l●t it lye inf●ed or steeped in good Vineger the space of foure twenty houres then take it off and dry it with a linnen cloth put into a L●mbe●ke and distill the water thereof And assoone as you finde your selfe touched with the sicknesse drinke foure spoonefuls of the said Water with a little Sugar and i● you be able walke vpon it vntill you sweate i●●ot ●epe your bed and be well couered prouoke your selfe to sweating and the next day to take as much againe of it a little before supper To prouoke vomit with two ounces of 〈◊〉 Oyle or 〈◊〉 Oyle a spoonefull of the iuyce of Celendi●e and halfe a spoonefull of the iuyce of ●●dice roote so that the party infected 〈◊〉 ●alke and not 〈◊〉 or better then any letting of blood or any purging for the disease neither can suffer agitation of humours nor when one is 〈◊〉 hath any time to bleed or to purge Medicines Externall V● 〈◊〉 supplyed to 〈…〉 inside of the Thighes or about the bottome of the 〈…〉 Legge will ●w foorth the 〈…〉 requires the direction of the Doctor For the swelling vnder the C●●es Arme-pits or in the ●ro●●es they must be alwayes drawne foorth and ripened and broke with all speed to vse any repelling thing is presently to ●ill the Patient These Tumors and more the Car●cles and Blaynes doe require the care and skill of the expert Chirurgi● but not to leaue the poorer ●ort 〈◊〉 of good remedies these following are very good Some pull off the Feathers from the tayles of liuing Cocks Hens Pigeons or Chickens and holding their bills they hold them hard to the Botch or Swelling and so keepe them at that part till they dye and by this meanes draw out the poyson To breake the Tumor TAke a great Onion hollow it put into it a Figge Rue cut small and a dramme of Venice Treacle put it close stopped in a wet paper and ro●te it in the Embers apply it hote vnto the Tumor lay three or foure one after another let one lye three houres Scabious and Sorrell roasted in the Embers mixt with a little 〈◊〉 leaues and some Barrowes Grease and a little Salt will draw it and breake it Take two or three roasted Onyons a Lilly Roote or two roasted a handfull of Scabious roasted foure or fiue Figges a piece of Leauen and a little Rue stampe all the●e together if it be too dry put to it two

destroyer of his people and that he will be pleased to blesse his Maiesties care and endeauors of the Magistrates and inferiour Officers for the staying of the Infection and that hee will blesse such good meanes as are and shal be directed by the Doctors in this so dangerous a Visitation Preseruatiues By Correction of the Ayre FOr the correcting of the infectious Ayre it were good that often Bonefires were made in the streetes and that sometimes the Tower-Ordnance might bee shot off as also that there be good fires kept in and about the visited houses and their neighbours Take Rosemary dried or Iuniper Bay-leaues or Frankincense cast the same vpon a Chafendish and receiue the fume or smoke thereof Some aduise to bee added Lauender or Sage Also to make Fires rather in Pannes to remooue about the chamber then in Chimneys shall better correct the Ayre of the houses Take a quantitie of Vineger very strong and put to it some small quantitie of Rose-water ten branches of Rosemary put them all into a bason then take fiue or sixe Flint-stones heated in the fire till they be burning hote cast them into the same Vineger and so let the fumes bee receiued from place to place of your house That the house be often perfumed with Rue Angelica Gentian Zedoary Setwall Iuniper wood or Berries burnt vpon imbers either simply or they may be steeped in Wine-vineger and so burnt Greene Coppris burnt in an earthen potte and cast hot into Vineger therewith perfume the house and all therein or with this Slake Lime in Vineger and aire the house therewith burne much Tarre Rosen Frankincense or Turpentine both in priuate Houses and in the Churches before Prayers By perfuming of Apparell SVch apparell as you shall commonly weare let it be very cleane and per●ume it often either with some red Saunders burned or with Iuniper And if any shall happen to be with them that are visited let such persons as soone as they shall come home shift themselues and ayre their clothes in open ayre for a time By carrying about of Perfumes SVch as are to goe abroad shall doe well to carry Rue Angelica or Zedoarie in their hands to smell to and of those they may chew a little in their mouthes as they goe in the streete especially if they bee afraid of any place It is not good to be ouer fearful and it cannot bee but bad to bee ouer presumptuous and bold Take Rue one handfull stamp it in a morter put thereto Wine-Vineger enough to moisten it mixe them well then straine out the iuyce wette a piece of spoonge or a toste of browne bread therein tye it in a thinne cloth beare it about to smell to Or this TAke the roote of Angelica beaten grosly the weight of sixe pence of Rue and Wormewood of each the weight of foure pence Setwall the weight of three pence bruise these then steepe them in a little Wine Vineger tye them in a linnen cloth which they may carrie in their hands or put it into a Iuniper boxe full of holes to smell to Or they may vse this Pomander TAke Angelica Rue Zedoarie of each halfe a dramme Myrrhe two drammes Camphire sixe graines Waxe and Labdanum of each two drammes more or lesse as shall bee thought fitte to mixe with the other things make hereof a Ball to carrie about you you may easily make a hole in it and so weare it about your necke with a string The richer sort may make vse of this Pomander TAke Citron Pils Angelica seeds Zedoarie Red Rose leaues of each halfe a dramme yellow Saunders Lignum aloes of each one scruple Galliae Moschatae foure scruples Storaxe Calamit Beuzoni of each one dramme Camphire sixe graines Labdanum three drammes Gum Tragaranth dissolued in rose-Rose-water enough to make it vp into a Pomander put thereto sixe drops of spirit of Roses enclose it in an iuory boxe or weare it about your necke Also it is good in going abroad in the open aire in the streets to hold some things of sweet sauour in their hands or in the corner of a handkerchiefe as a sponge dipped in Vineger and Rose-water mixed or in Vineger wherewith Wormewood or Rue called also Herbegrace hath beene boyled Take the roote of Enula Campana being laid and steeped in Vineger and grosse beaten put a little of it in a handkerchiefe and smell to it if you resort to any that is infected It shall bee good to take a handfull of Rue and as much common Wormewood and bruise them a little and put them into a pot of Earth or Tinne with so much Vineger as shall couer the herbes keepe this pot close couered or stopt and when you feare any infection dip into this Vineger a piece of a sponge carry it in your hand and smell to it or else put it into a round Ball of Yuory or Iuniper made full of holes of the one side carying it in your hand vse to smell thereunto renewing it once a day By inward Medicines LEt none goe fasting forth euery one according to their fortunes let them eate some such thing as may resist putrefaction Some may eate Garlicke with Butter a Cloue● two or three according to the abilitie of their bodies some may eate fasting some of the electuary with Figs and Rue hereafter expressed Some may vse London Treacle the weight of eight pence in a morning taking more or lesse according to the age of the party after one houre let them eate some other breakefast as bread and butter with some leaues of Rue or Sage ●nd in the heate of Summer of Sorrell or wood Sorrell To steepe Rue Wormwood or Sage all night in their drinke and to drinke a good draught in the morning fasting is very wholesome or to drinke a draught of such drin●e after the taking any of the preseruatiues will be very good In all Summer Plagues it shall bee good to vse Sor●ell sauce to bee eaten in the morning with bread And in the fall of the leafe to vse the iuice of Barberies with bread also Take of the powder of good Ba●beries the huske taken away from them before they be dryed a spoonefull let the patient drinke 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 goe to bed and cast himselfe in a sweat and forbeare sleepe Take the inward barke of the Ash-tree a pound of Walnuts with the greene outward shels to the number of fifty cut these small of Scabious of Veruen of Petimorel of Housleeke of euery one a handfull of Saffron halfe an ounce powre vpon these the strongest Vineger you can get foure pints let them a little boyle together vpon a very soft fire and then stand in a very close pot well stopt all a night vpon the Embers after distill them with a soft fire and receiue the water close kept Giue vnto the Patient laid in bed and well couered