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A86260	Preservatives against the plague, or directions and advertisements for this time of pestilentiall contagion VVith certaine instructions for the poorer sort of people when they shall bee visited: and also a caveat to those that weare about their necks impoisoned amulets as a preservative against that sicknesse. First publisheed for the behoofe of the city of London, in the two visitations 1603. and 1625. and reprinted for the benefit of the said citie, now visited, and all other parts of the land, that may or shall hereafter be. By Francis Herring Dr. in physick, deceased.; Certain rules, directions or advertisements for this time of pestilentiall contagion	Herring, Francis, d. 1628.	1641 (1641)	Wing H1600B; ESTC R230654	9,127	40

two or three houres Let them not sleepe during the time of their sweating whilst they sweat let them hold under their arme-pits and upon the either emunctories especially the groynes a Radish roote divided into two parts the same roote is to be tyed unto the plants or hollow of their feete when they have sweat well for two or three houres according to the strength and age of the partie dry their bodyes well with warme and cleane linnen clothes beginning with the arme-pits and groyne then the breast whereon after the sweate is well wiped away lay a fresh and cleane linnen Napkin doubled That done let them wash their mouth face and hands with water and vineger and drinke a good draught of mutton broath made with Rose-mary Tyme Sorrell Cichory If their stomacke will give them leave they may eate a little mutton or veale at dinner but they are to forbeare flesh-meate at Suppers In stead of broath water-grewell with Rose-mary or Burnet will doe well or thinne pannada For their drinke Let it be the middle or sixe shillings-beere warmed with a tost Or water boyled with Cardius seed and Caroway seed and the roots of Scabius and Verben with a crust of bread Then let them rest or sleepe washing their mouth often if they be awake with water and vineger They may likewise make a Quilt with Balme Mint Rose-mary Sage Sweet Marjeram dryed and sprinkling it with vineger of wormewood or Hearb-grace or ordinary wine vineger apply it to the region of the heart warme The second sweating Medicine After eight houres from the first invasion of the Pest let them take another sweating Medicine Take of the powder of the roote of Diptamne Scabius Gentian each halfe a dragme seed of Carduus Benedictus a scruple juyce of Mary-gold flowers devils pit each two ounces halfe a spoonfull of vineger of Rue or Wormwood or in want of them ordinary Vineger of White Wine Let them drinke this warme and sweat againe as at the first time two or three houres keeping in the meane while a Radish roote at the Emunctories as before Then dry off the sweat wash the mouth face and hands as before take some convenient nourishment and carry themselves as in the first interim of eight houres The third sweating Medicine Againe the third time after the like pause or intervall let them take another sweating and Cordiall Med. in this manner Take of the seed of Rue or Hearb-grace a scruple and halfe that is 30 graines of the roots of Enula campana Valerian Fullers teasells Aristolochia the round each halfe a scruple the juyce of three leaved Sorrell called allebia two ounces juyce of Rue Scabious each an ounce a little of the forenamed vineger Let them take it warme sweat as before and carry themselves in all points as before and continue this course for foure or five dayes But if any be in that extreamitie of povertie and misery that they cannot procure these parable and easie cheape Medicins let them drinke twice in the day a draught of their owne Vrine in the morning and five in the after-noone If in the first second or third day the Botches or Carbuncles appeare the best and safest way both for poore and rich is to commit themselves to be ordred and dressed by a skilfull Chirurgion There will be no doubt assigned and maintained for the meaner and poorer sort Chirurgions ex communi aerurio out of the common Purse especially in London Let those that are wealthy make choise of their owne Chyrurgion and pay well for their cure For a little health is worth a great deale of gold which a Chyrurgion in that case must fetch out of the fire and hazard his owne life every day to save his Patient Vita sine valetudine odium est non vita Soranus Seneca Emis a Medico seu Chyrurgo Rem inestimabilem vitam valetudinem cui quantumcunque dederis exaequare non potes Medicinae beneficia Medico siquidem non Rei sed operae pretium solvitur Non domus aut fundi non aeris acervus auri Aegroto Domini deducunt corpore febres Non animo curas valeat possessor oportet Si comportatis b●ne Rebus cogitat uti Let me adde this one advertisment as a corollarie or conclusion that you tamper not too soone with the Botches or Blanes before they be well come forth and nature well cleered and releeved but rather continue in the taking of inward Cordials and sweating Medicins As Pesicatoris and the like The over hasty applying of topicall and outward remedies especially if they be forcible and sharpe which is too usually practised by some Physitians and Chyrurgions and by Patients themselves doe oft times by causing paine increasing the Fever and weakening Nature drive backe and scatter the venom into the inward parts which suddenly by a second insult and incounter surpriseth the Fort of life the Heart and carryeth away the Patient ⸪ Si quid novisti rectiùs istis Candidus imperti si non his utere mecum En veniam pro laude peto laudatus abundè Non fastiditus si tibi lector ero Sit Nomen Domini benedictum Si quid novisti rectius istis Candidus imperti si non his utere mecum The Preservatives mentioned in this booke may be had from Mr. Iames the Apothecarie at his house in Alderman-bury neere to the Conduit with others of like nature well approved and experimented FINIS

sort may burne Worme-wood Rue Time Let them cast often on the floores of their houses water mingled with Vineger Concourse of people to Stage-playes Wakes or Feasts and May-pole dauncings are to be prohibited by publique Authoritie whereby as God is dishonored the bodies of men and women by surfetting drunkennes and other riots and excesses disposed to infection and the contagion dangerously scattered both in Citie and Countrie Let the Bells in Cities and Townes be rung often and the great Ordnance discharged thereby the aire is purified Touching our regiment and diet repletion and inanition as two dangerous extremities are heedfully to be avoyded Those meats are to be used which are of easie digestion and apt to breed good juice The blankets matresses flockbeds and all bed-clothes of the infected are to be burned also leather garments because they hold the infection very long Alexander Benedictus reports Hist de Pest That in Venice a flock-bed used in a contagious time was after 7 yeares found in an inward roome the Mistris of the house commanded the servants to ayre and beat it whereupon the servants were instantly infected with the pestilence and died Such as are of hard concoction and cause obstructions are to be avoyded specially those that easily corrupt and putrifie in the stomacke as the most part of summer fruit raw cherries plums apples c. It is not good to be abroad in the ayre early in the morning before the Sunne have purified the ayre or late in the night after Sunne-setting In rainie darke and cloudie weather keepe your house as much as you can Eschue all perturbations of minde especially anger and feare The one by heating the body opens a doore for the enemie to enter the other by cowardly running away gives him encouragement to tread on the hedge which lyeth lowest and maketh least resistance Let your exercise be moderate ad ruborem non ad sudorem The time of exercise is an houre before dinner or supper not in the heat of the day or when the stomacke is full Vse seldome familiaritie with Venus for shee enfeebleth the body and maketh it more obnoxious to externall injuries You may feede three times in the day Varietie of meats is pernicious much more varietie of sauces but more sparingly than at other times Shunne varietie of dishes at one meale Perniciosa ciborum varietas perniciosior condimentorum And if at any time the Rule holdeth The most simple feeding is the most wholsome feeding then it is in force at this time of infection Augenius a learned Physitian thinketh it not possible that hee that liveth temperately and soberly should be subject to the Sicknesse Goe not forth of your house into the ayre neither willingly speake with any till you have broken your Fast For breakfast you may use a good draught of wormwood beere or ale and a few morsels of bread and butter with the leaves of sage or else a toste with sweet salade oyle two or three drops of rose vinegar and a little sugar They that have cold stomackes may drinke a draught of wormewoodwine or malm-sey in stead of ale or beere But take heed as you loue your life of extreame hot waters as Aqua vitae Rosa solis or other compound waters of like nature which Emperickes prepare and set out with vaine and boasting words Laudat venales qui vult extrudere merces Of them Crato a great and learned Physitian pronounceth that they were inventa ad jugulandos non ad curandos homines devised to kill not to cure men Hee speaketh of the daily and continuall use of them and that is it which I disallow If you be not accustomed to a breakfast take the quantitie of a Nutmeg or thereabouts of some cordiall Electuarie prescribed by the learned Physitian before you set foot out of doores If you will use both for greater cautell then take your Electuarie early in the morning two houres before your breakfast As you walke in the streets or talke with any hold in your mouth a Clove a peece of a Zodoarie Angelica or Enula campana roote Once in foure or five dayes take three or foure cordiall and stomachicall pilles by direction of your Physitian to fortifie the heart and stomacke against all corruption and to cleanse your body from such humours as may dispose you to the sicknesse For Agens non agit nisi in Patiente disposito An Agent worketh not but upon a fitted and disposed Patient If any man be bound by Religion consanguinitie office or any such respect to visite the sicke parties let him first provide that the chamber bee well perfumed with odoriferous trochiskes or such like the windowes layd with the herbes afore-named the floore cleane swept and sprinkled with rose-water and vineger that there be a fire of sweet wood burning in the chimney the windowes being shut for an houre then open the casements towardes the North. Then let him wash his face and hands with rose-water and rose-vineger and enter into the chamber with a waxe candle in the one hand and a sponge with rose-vineger and wormewood or some other Pomander to smell unto Let him hold in his mouth a peece of Mastic Cinamon Zedoarie or Citron pill or a Clove Let him desire his sicke friend to speake with his face turned from him When he goeth forth let him wash his hands and face with rose-vineger and water as before especially if he have taken his friend by the hand as the manner is and going presently to his owne house let him change his garments and lay those wherein he visited his friend apart for a good time before he resume them againe Let him not forget upon his returne home or before to take a convenient quantitie of his cordiall Electuarie and forbeare meat an houre or two after it That Amulets confected of Arsenicke are no good Preservatives against the Plague PErceiving many in this Citie to weare about their necks upon the region of the heart certaine Placents or Amulets as Preservatives against the Pestilence confected of Arsenicke a strong poyson I have thought it needfull other men keeping silence to declare briefly my opinion touching the said Amulets not I professe in hatred to any mans person or envie at their commoditie wherein I might have shared with them if I could have brought my judgement to concurre with theirs but in conscience and discharge of my dutie The rather because I feare greatly that through vaine confidence in them other more apposite convenient and effectuall Antidotes and Alexeteries are neglected My opinion is that these Placents of Arsenicke carried about upon the Region of the heart are so farre from effecting any good in that kinde as a preservative that they are very dangerous and hurtfull if not pernicious to those that weare them It is evident that Arsenicke being a confessed poison is an opposite Gal. 3. de Temp cap. professed and perpetuall enemy to our nature Therefore being worne next the