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A16628	Physick for the sicknesse, commonly called the plague With all the particular signes and symptoms, whereof the most are too ignorant. Collected, out of the choycest authors, and confirmed with good experience; for the benefit and preservation of all, both rich and poore. By Stephen Bradwell, of London physician.	Bradwell, Stephen.	1636 (1636)	STC 3536; ESTC S106184	28,626	62

Dein Accipè Conservae buglossi borraginis ana drach iij. cum aquali quantitate Syr. ê Limonibus rosis siccis Fiat Conditū s a. For young Children For young Children there is nothing better or fitter then Bole Armoniack or Terra Lemnia with a little Tormentill roote or Citron pills made into fine Powder and mixed with their meates butter and broths for their breakfasts And because they are not much to be tampered with by internall medicines annoint the region of their heart with oyle of Hypericon every morning and evening or with oleo Scorpionium or oleo corcino or else let them commonly weare next their skin over their heart such a Quilt as this Take of red Roses 2. drams red saunders red corrall spodium of each one dram Zedoarie lignum aloes cynnamon cloves citron pill saffron of each halfe a dram Sew it up in a peece of red Sarcenet or Calico moysten it with a little Rose-vineger so heat it and apply it warme And when it waxeth dry moystit and heate it so againe And take this note Note by the way When you suspect a Childe to have the wormes in a contagious time use not Wormseed nor those common trifles but order him as in danger of Infection for that disease comming of so much putrefaction as it does is apt to receive contagion as tinder to take fire Give it therefore ten or twenty graines of this Powder following Take of Harts-horne one dram citron pill rootes of Angelica and Tormentill Rheubarb and Coralline of each halfe a dram Make all into a fine powder and give the aforesaid quantity in a little Carduus water sweetned with some sugar After the taking of any of these Antidotes Breakfasts abstaine from all meat and drinke for two or three houres And then eate a piece of Bread and butter strewed with a little grated Nutmeg Or Bread and Sallet-oyle spiced with the powder of Tormentill rootes Or a piece of Bread sopped in White-wine allayed with a little Vineger Let your Dinner be about high noone Dinner and Supper and then eat not of above two or three several dishes Your Supper at five or sixe a clocke in the evening and then let one dish suffice For it is a pretty saying and worth the noting In the Morning a little is enough at Noone enough is but a little but at Night a little may be too much Bed time Goe not to bed till three or foure houres after Supper lest sleeping upon a full stomacke you hinder digestion And so I bid good night to the second Point of Dyet The third Point is Repletion and Evacuation Repletion Evacuatiō When you arise in the morning rub your sides armes thighes and legs downward gently your clothes being on combe your head and rub it Hake spit and blow your nose to evacuate the excrements of your head and stomacke Then assay to make water and to goe to stoole and labor to bring your body to this dayly custome For The body ought especially to bee kept free from superfluities saith Galen lib. 1. de Differ Feb. cap. 4. Therefore if you be costive use some supposistory or Clyster and suffer not two whole dayes to passe without such evacuation It is necessary that every one that hath so much understanding doe learne to know whether he be Phlethorick For Phlethoricke people or Cacochymick If Phlethorick that is full of bloud as those that live in high feeding it will appeare by his high colour full veynes pulse greater and more frequent then it used ordinarily to be pursinesse heavinesse and dulnesse of body and such like signes If you bee costive take a common Clyster first then be let bloud according to the appointment of some skilfull Physitian and so ordered afterwards according to Art If Cacochymick For Cacochymick that is full of grosse and corrupted humors which will appeare by the palenesse and ill colour of the face defective strength and the like He must be well purged which none but a Physitian can safely prescribe and that upon examination of his Body and Vrine But as a generall Generall purgings for all sorts rule all doe appoint some purging medicine twice or thrice in a weeke to keepe the Body free from the increase of superfluous humors To this purpose the Pills of RUFFUS which are common in every Shop are very apt and good Or if you please use these of mine whereof I had happy experience in the last great Visitation Rs. Aloës Rosatae unc 1. Bradwels Pilles Rhabarbari Croci ana drach 3. Myrrhae drach 6. Santali citrini drach 1. Ambari grisei scrup 1. Cum syrupi de succo citri q. s fiat s a. Massa Philularum Make Pils of 8. 10. or 12. graines a piece and take 2 or 3. at a time either at bed time or after the first sleep you may take them in Syrup of Roses or conserve of Violets or if you will in the yolke of a reare egge And it is good to drink after them when you rise in the morning in cold weather a little draught of white Wine mixed with Balme-water In hot weather white-Wine and Succorie-water with a drop or two of oyle of Vitrioll in it But those that cannot take Pills may have this Syrup made for them which for his excellent vertue in this case is called Syrupus Divinus the Diuine Syrup Syrupus Divinus Sancti Ambrosii Rs. Cort. citri rad cappar berber santal rub citrin spodii ana drach 1. Carryophyll borrag buglossi mellissae cichorei ana unc 1. Acetosae Hepaticae marrubii ana unc ss Thymi Epithymi Scariolae Rhabarb fol. senae rad polypodii ana drach 1. Succorum absynthii fumariae ebuli Plantagenis Myrobalanorum Chebul citrin ana drach 6. Cum sacchari li. 2. ss fiat Syrupus s a. Cum aceti succi cydoniorum q. s reddatur dulcè acidus Take two or three spoonefuls of this more or lesse as it workes But keepe very warme for it causeth sweat as wel as seidge In a Manuscript of my Grandfather BANISTERS I finde this called St. AMBROSE his Syrup The same a little altered is in RENODAEVS his Disponsatorie and hee hath added two drams of Diagredium Let men of judgment doe as they please I like it best as I have set it downe RENODAEUS gives it this Title not acknowledging any Author Syrupus qui reddit corpus mundum à superfluitatibus per consequens cor cerebrum hepar et omnia alia membrae confortat Which commendations agrees with my Title for it is worthy of all commendations That Morning that you take your Purging Medicine you must forbeare your other Antidote Women with childe What Purge for women with Childe must be kept solluble onely with mild Suppositories and gentle Glysters wherein a little new drawne Cassia is to be used Or else a milde Potion made with some Pectorall Decoction and

bee too stiffe to be streightned In those of the Plague or Poysoned eyther the flesh is soft and the joynts limber and flexible after the Body is cold Which shewes the vilenesse of Putrifaction in all the humors and moyst parts of the Body And now having found out by certain Signes the way to know this Sickness● from all others It will not be amisse out of learned Authoritie to teach you how to know whether a man at the first taking or soone after be likely to be recovered or no. To know whether a man taken with the Sicknesse may be likely to recover or no. If one be taken with the first Signes of Sinking of his Spirits causlesse Sadnesse shortnesse of Breath on the suddaine that hee cannot forbeare Sighing yet knowes no cause why Sick heartednesse c. If this happen at his Meate or presently after let him if hee can Vomit If he offer and cannot Helpe him with a little Warme-water and Oyle Or dip a feather in Linseed oyle or Oyle of Scorpions and thrust it into his throat Then or if he be taken betwixt Meales or Fasting Make this Draught for him Take of Bole-Armoniack j. dram powdred Iuice of Oranges halfe an ounce White Wine an ounce rose-Rose-water ij ounces Mixe them together and give it If hee Vomit it vp againe it is a Signe the venome is aboundant and has gotten great power over the vitall parts Therefore wash his mouth with a little white Wine and give him the same Potion againe If hee againe cast it up repeat the Wine lotion and this Potion againe three times This is taken out of the second Canon of Avicen by Guaynerius who testifies upon his owne knowledge that never any that at first kept it without Casting it up againe dyed of that Sicknesse GUANERIUS was an excellent skilfull Physitian And AVICENNA was accounted a Prince of Physitians they may therefore be beleeved Yet I would have none so superstitious in the certainty of this safetie as generally all are in the deadlinesse of the Tokens Of which I am perswaded any might recover that have the best coloured of them but that the custome of Ignorance hath driven away all use of meanes upon the very appearance of the Spots This I durst not hide yet perhaps like Cassandra I may bee but laugh'd at for telling the truth But this is no time to laugh Let every Man rather bee to his owne Soule and Family an AARON to take with speed his Censor of Repentance and fill it with fire from the Altar of the exceeding great and precious Promises of CHRIST 2. Pet. 1.4 and put the Incense of faithfull Prayer thereon and runne quickly Num. 16.46 and make an Attonement for there is wrath gone out from the Lord The Plague is begun Jn the Great Visitation Anno 1625. I made these Preservative Compositions Preservatives Inwardly 1 MY Electuarie which I call Antiloymon The price is 2. s. an Ounce The Quantity one or 2. Drams on a knifes point 2 My Plague Powder 9. d. a Dram. The quantitie halfe a Dram in White wine Carduus water or Posset-ale 3 My Powder of Life This is used onely in very weake bodies for Preservation and in Cure is beyond my modesty of Expression But I reserve to my selfe how it is to be used The price is 3. d. a Graine And the ordinary dose is 8.10 or 12. graines 4 For the more Ordinary sort of People I had with happy successe also I praise God My Liquor of Life The price 5. s. a Pinte The quantitie at once 2. 4. or 6. spoonefuls as the Age or strength requireth But observe that these Quantities are for Preservation onely But in Cure of the Infected Note they must be doubled 1 Also Lozenges Outward or Troe●isks to hold in the Mouth At 12. pence an Ounce 2 Pomanders 5. s. a peece 3 Sweet Waters for Spunges 3. s. 6. d. a pinte 4 Sweet Waters to be cast on a hot Fire-shovell to perfume a Chamber 3. s. a pinte 5 Perfumes to burne wherewith to ayre Cloaths 16 pence an ounce All these are temperate and Catholicall that is generally fit for all Constitutions And were All the Inventions of my Grand-father Mr. IOHN BANISTER that famous both Physitian and Chyrurgion in this Citie And now if any shall desire them I will quickly Prepare them againe I will nor brag what they did nor court mens beleefe like a Mountebanck I am knowne to many and the Iudious are like enough to trust me by that I have written I live in Golden-Lane over against the Signe of the Golden Flower de Luce. The Lord of Heaven in mercie looke downe vpon this Citie FINIS