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A77458 A Brief relation of the plague at Naples, in the year M.DC.LVI. Where died 10, some days 15, and one day 20000 at least, (some say 25000) and the next day but 500. : With observations, preservatives, and cures. / Translated out of Italian into English. 1665 (1665) Wing B4629aA; ESTC R173280 3,947 7

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A Brief Relation OF THE PLAGUE AT NAPLES In the Year M.DC.LVI Where died 10 some days 15 and one day 20000 at least some say 25000 and the next day but 500. With Observations Preservatives and Cures Translated out of Italian into English LONDON Printed by J. Grismond 1665. A Brief Relation OF The PLAGVE at NAPLES In the Year M.DC.LVI c. A Consultation made for the Sickness then raging and reigning by the subscribed Physicians of this most Faithful City by order of the most Illustrious Magistrates deputed for the Office of Health As for the distinction of the Spotted Feaver and Purples and that which is called the Tokens thus much is observed That upon the incision of the Spots of the first two there will arise a little Bloud or Gleeting but if the Tokens be cut there will nothing of either arise the whole Bloud or Juice being supposed to have some touch of a Gangrene or Sphacelation And as to the Bubo's Venereal and Pestilential they are supposed to be thus distinguished that the Pestilential Tumours lie lower in the Groin IN the Opening and Dissecting at that time of two dead bodies one of a Man the other of a Woman on the first of June in the year 1656 by order from His Excellence and the most Illustrious Magistrates deputed by this most faithful City about the Sickness then rise it was observed by the most expert Anatomists Marco Aurelio Severino and Felice Martorella with the assistance of the chief Physician and other Doctors that all the Bowels were infected with black spots that is to say the Heart Lungs Liver Stomach and the Intestines besides that the Bladder of Gall was plainly found to be full of black viscid and very thick choler which pertinaciously stook to its Membrane but above all the vessels of the Heart were full of a grumous and black bloud And this was the summary of the Observation This being related by the same Signor Felice in an Assembly of the above-mentioned most Illust●ious Magistrates it was by them decreed that together with the Signori Domenico Coccia Onofrio Riccia Carolo P●gnataro Francesco Cafaro Giovanni Giacomo Carbonello Carolo Joveue Andrea di Mauro and Salvator Borrello assembled in one place they should determine and order what ought to be done as well for the preservation as for the cure of this Sickness wherefore these being met in the house of the said Signor Felice they ordered for Preventives as to remedies most easie and at hand that it was greatly helpful First to make in the houses Fires with fumes of Rosemary Bay-berries Juniper Frankincense and the like Secondly Treakle-water Treakle Mithridate Pills of Ruffus against the Plague The composition of dry Figs Rue Walnuts and Salt which was King Mithridates Preservative and found in his Desk or Cabinet written with his own hand The Magistral Bezoar Vineger made with Brimstone Rue Garlick Cloves Saffron and Walnuts the use of which is to dip in a piece or slice of bread and take it fasting Good too are the powders of Bole-Armonick Terra sigillata Terra di Malta Citron seeds pounded seeds of Basil powder of Scordium or Water-germander of Contrayerva or instead of it Virginia Snake-weed Bezoar-stone East and West all which or any may be taken in the pulp of Citron sharp O●enges or with juice of Limons In the mouth they may hold crude Sulphur Zedoary Aristolochia or Birth-wort Gentian Carline white Dittany Master-wort Angelica Vervain Vince-toxicum or Swallow-wort Goats-rue Juniper-berries Bay-berries Ivy berries any one of these To smell to besides the usual Balls they commended a Sponge well wet in Vineger and Treackle or else to make little hollow boxes of Cyprus-wood Juniper or of the Bay tree and therein to put Treackle Vineger and Rue good also he ein are the Oils of yellow Amber and of Camphir Let them anoint their Heart Temples Nostrils and the Wrists with the Oil of Mat●hiolus or Treackle-water or make a liniment of Treakle juice of Limons Saffron Dittany Carline boiled together wherewith anoint There may be made also a compound Vineger to put into a Bason wherewith to bathe or wet the Hands Wrists and Nostrils by taking a quantity of Schaenanthus roots of Carline Nutmeg Cloves Benjoin Calamus aromaticus and boil all with a quantity of the best Vineger Of the same virtues to preserve are other Magistral Remedies endowed such are the Antipestilential Elixir of Crollius the great Electuary of Matthiolus and his Oil of Scorpions the Bezoartick Vineger of Ernestus the Diascordium of Fracastorius and above all is commended the powder of Padre Gio. Baptista Eremitano which was experimented in the Plague at Naples the age past and now observed with most happy success by many Physicians The Composition of it is thus ℞ Tormentil red Sanders white Dittany burnt Harts-horn Bole-Armoniack fine Sugar of each one dram powder of Pearl round Birth-wort Cinamon Gentian red and white Coral of each half a dram Camphir two scruples make all into a most fine powder The dose is half a dram at a time And you may take this in the water of Scorzonera Cardilli or juice of Limons Also for a preservative they may take one drop of the Great Dukes Oil Duke of Fl●rence with some water of Goats-rue and this too may do well in the Cure increasing onely the quantity of the Oil. Last of all leaving a world of Remedies which here might be set down the most potent preservative is the Elixir following ℞ Aloes Hepatick best Cinamon and Myrrhe of each three drams Cloves Mace Lignum Aloes Mastick and Bole-Armoniack of each half a dram pure Sulphur four drams Rosemary seven drams macerate them all in Aqua-vitae and accordingly draw off the liquor The dose is three or four drops at a time in Cardilli or Scorzonera water And thus much for the Preservation Now for the Cure 't is necessary first to cleanse the body either upward by Vomits or downward by Stools and this ought to be done suddenly with all speed before that the strength fails The Vomit may be provoked with Antimony or with its Infusion or by Vineger of Squills distilled with Scordium Tormentil Scabious Citron-seeds roots of Asrabacca and of Gentian or else rather with Diasarum Fernelii The Scamm●niates are dangerou● and disap●●●ved here Downwards they may purge with syrup of Roses solutive Confectio Hamech Trifera Persiea or Rhubarb with decoction of Tormentil Scordium ●amarinds Contrayerva and if this cannot be done or made ready timely enough give four ounces of conserve of Damask-roses with powder of Rhubarb or with the Electuary of juice of Roses with a little of Contrayerva or the like As for letting bloud it ought to be determined from a great Fever from the strength of the fick party ebullition of the bloud and inclination of Nature limiting the place of bleeding conformable to the motion which shall be observed either in the upper or lower or cutaneous parts still remembring