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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47273	Medela pestilentiae wherein is contained several theological queries concerning the plague, with approved antidotes, signes and symptoms : also an exact method for curing that epidemicial distemper, humbly presented to the Right Honourable and Right Worshipful the lord mayor and sheriffs of the city of London.	Kephale, Richard.	1665 (1665)	Wing K330; ESTC R26148	48,416	100

drink wherein hath been infused the fore-named herbs Or One day you may take a little Worm-wood and Valerian with a grain of Salt Another you may take seven or eight berries of Juniper dryed and powdered with common drink or with drink wherein Worm-wood and Rue hath been steeped all night Or Take the Treacle called Diatessarum of light price easie to be had Or The Root of Ennula Campana taken in powder with drink Or A piece of Arras root kept in the mouth as men passe the streets Or Take six leaves of Sorrel wash them with water and Vinegar letting them lye in the said water and Vinegar a while then eat them fasting and keep in your mouth and chew now and then either Set-wall or the root of Angelica or a little Cinnamon or four grains of Myrrhe or so much of Rattle-snake root Of Medicines purgative It is good for prevention to keep the body open especially with such things as are easie of operation and good to resist putrefaction as Pestilential Pills c. Take Alloes two ounces Myrrhe and Saffron of each an ounce Ammoniacum half a ounce make them up into a mash with the juyce of Lemmons or White-wine Vinegar to keep the body open a small pill or two will be enough taken before Supper or before Dinner But to purge the body take the weight of a dram made into five or six or more Pills in the morning fasting and that day keep your Chamber If you bee costive and bound in body you may take a Glister made with a little boyled hony and a little fine powder of salt and so taken in at the fundament and kept till it move a stoole Or If you are poor take Aloes the weight of six pence put in the pap of an Apple and if able to buy them pills of Ruffus to bee had in every shop Such as are tyed to necessary attendance on the Infected as also such as live in visited houses shall do well to cause Issues to bee made in their left Arms or right Legs or both Blood Letting If the Patient bee full of blood and strong let him bee let blood upon the Liver Vein in the right arme or in the Median Veine of the said arm but bleeding and purging must bee used the first day the Patient is sick both to be forborn in case any sores or spots appear Vomits To provoke a Vomit take two ounces of zant oyle or Wal-nut-oyle a spoonful of the juyce of Celandine and half a spoonful of the juyce of Radish-roots or two spoonfuls of Oxymel of Squills with posset drink and oyle Expulsive Medicines The Plague is best expelled by sweating caused by posset-Ale made with Fennel and Marigolds in Winter and with Sorrel Bugloss and Borrage in Summer with which at both times London Treacle to the weight of two drams must bee mixed and so lay themselves with all quietness to sweat one half hour or an hour if they be strong For the cure of the Infected upon the first apprehension Bur-seeds Cucheneely powder of Harts-horn Citron-seeds one or more of them with a few grains of Camphire are good to bee given in Cardus or Dragon Water or with some Treacle Water Or Take Bur-seeds and Cucheneely of each half a dram or to a weak body of each one scruple Camphire five grains mixe these with two ounces of Cardus or Dragon water half an ounce of Treacle water sirrop of wood-sorrel a spoonful mixe these give it to the Patient warme cover him to sweat you may give him a second draught after twelve houres let him drink no cold drink this posset drink or the like will bee good to give the Visited liberally Or Take wood-sorrel half a handful Marigold flowers half so much shavings of Harts-horn three drams a Fig or two sliced boil them well in clear posset drink let them drink thereof freely you may put thereto a little Sugar Or Take Citron-seeds six or eight shavings of Harts-hornes halfe a dram London Treacle a dram mixe them with two ounces of Cardus water or with three ounces of the prescribed posset-drinke drinke it warme and so lie to sweat Or Take Sorrel-water five or sixe spoonfuls Treacle water a spoonful London Treacle a dram and a half mixe them well give it warme and so lay the patient to sweat Or Take Tormentil and Celandine-roots of each four ounces Scabious and Rue of each a handful and a half London Treacle a dram and a half Bole-Armoniack half a scruple put thereto a little Sugar mix them well let the party drink it warm and cover him to sweat In Summer Take the juyce of Wood-sorrel two ounces the juyce of Lemmons an ounce Diascordium a dram Cinnamon six grains Vinegar half an ounce give it warme and lay the Patient to sweat in case of fluxes of the belly or want of rest Or Take an Egge and make an hole in the top of it take out the white and yolk fill the shell with the weight of two French Crowns of Saffron roast the said Egge thus filled with Saffron under the embers until the shell waxe yellow then take it from the fire and beat the shell and Saffron in a Morter with half a spoonful of Mustard-seed Take of this powder a French Crown weight and as soon as you suspect your self Infected dissolve it into ten spoonfuls of posset Ale and drink it Luke-warm then go to bed and provoke your self to sweating Or Take one dram of the Electuarium de Ovo Or Take five or six handful of Sorrel that groweth in the field or a greater quantity according as you will distill more or lesse of the water thereof and let it lye steeped in good Vinegar four and twenty hours then take it off and dry it with a Linnen cloath and put it into a Limbeck and distill the water thereof and as soon as you finde your self touched with the sickness drink four spoonfuls of the said water with a little Sugar and if you bee able walk upon it till you sweat if not keep your bed and being well covered provoke your self to sweating Or Take of the Root Butter-burre otherwise called Pestilent-wort one ounce of the Root of great Valerian a quarter of an ounce of Sorrel an handful boil all these in a quart of water to a pinte then strain it and put thereto two spoonfuls of Vinegar two ounces of good Sugar boyl all these together till they be well mingled Let the Infected drink of this so hot as hee may suffer it a good draught and if hee chance to cast it up again let him take the same quantity streight way upon it and provoke himself to sweat Or Take Sugar of Roses four ounces Ginger two ounces Camphire an ounce make these into fine powder kept in Butts with Wine taking a dram at a time Or Take of the powder of good Bayberries the husk taken away from them before they be dryed a spoonful Let the Patient drink this well mingled in

before Prayers By Perfuming of Apparrel Such apparrel as you commonly wear let it bee very clean and perfume it often either with some Virginia Caedar burned or with Juniper and if any shall happen to bee with them that are Visited let such persons as soon as they shall come home shift themselves and ayre their Cloaths in the open ayre for a time By carrying about of Perfumes Such as are to go abroad shall do well to carry Rue Angelica or Zedoary in their hands to smell to and of those they may chew a little in their mouths as they go in the street especially if they bee afraid of any place It is not good to be over fearful but it cannot be but bad to bee over presumptuous and bold Take Rue one handful stamp it in a Morter put thereto Wine Vinegar enough to moisten it mixe them well then strain out the juyce with a peece of spunge put a toast of brown bread therein tye it in a thin cloath bear it about to smell to Take the Root of Angellica beaten grosly the weight of six pence of Rue and Worm wood of each the weight of four pence Setwel the weight of three pence bruise these then steep them in a little Wine vinegar tye them in a linnen cloath which they may carry in their hands or put it into a Juniper box full of holes to smell to Or they may use this Pomander Take Angellica Rue Zedoary of each half a dram Myrrhe two drams Camphire six grains wax and Labdanum of each two drams more or less as shall be thought fit to mix with the other things make hereof a ball to carry about you you may easily make a hole in it and so wear it about your neck with a string The Richer sort may make use of this Pomander Take Citron-pills Angelica seeds Zedoary red-Rose leaves of each half a dram yellow Sanders Lignum Aloes of each one scruple Galliae Moschatae four scruples Storax Calamint Beusoni of each one dram Camphire six grains Labdanum three drams Gum Tragaranth dissolved in rose-Rose-water enough to make it up into a Pomander put thereto six drops of spirit of Roses inclose it in an Ivory box or weare it about your neck By inward Medicines Let none go fasting forth every one according to their fortunes let them eat some such things as may resist putrefaction some may eat Garlick with butter a clove two or three according to the ability of their bodies some may eat fasting some of the electuary with figs and Rue hereafter expressed Some may use London Treacle the weight of eight pence in the morning taking more or lesse according to the age of the party after one hour let them eat some other break-fast as bread and butter with some leaves of Rue or Sage and in the heat of Summer of Sorrel or Wood-Sorrel Of the Physitians To steep Rue wormwood or Sage all night in their drink and to drink a good draught in the morning fasting is very wholsome or to drink a draught of such drink after the taking of any of the preservatives will bee very good In all Summer-Plagues it shall bee good to use Sorrel sauce to bee eaten in the morning with bread and in the fall of the leaf to use the juyce of Barberries with bread also Mithridate's Medicine of Figs. Take of good Figs and Walnut-kernels of each twenty four Rue picked two good handfuls of Salt half an ounce or somewhat better first stamp your Figs and Wall-nuts well together in a stone Morter then add your Rue and last of all your salt mixe them exceeding well take of this mixture every morning fasting the weight of sixteen pence to children and weak bodies lesse Or Take twenty Wal-nuts pilled fifteen Figs a handful of Rue three drams of Tormentil roots two drams of Juniper-berries a dram and a half of Bole-Armoniack first stamp your Roots then your Figs and seeds then add your Wal-nuts then put to your Rue and Bole-Armoniack and with them put thereto six drams of London Treacle and two or three spoonfuls of Wine Vinegar mixing them well in a stone Morter and take of this every morning the quantity of a good Nutmeg fasting they that have cause to go much abroad may take as much more in the evening two hours before supper It is very good to take Tobacco to eat Raisens of the Sun fasting or to drink a pinte of Maligo in a morning against the Infection For Women with Childe and Children and such as cannot take the bitter things before prescribed Take Conserve of Roses Conserve of Wood-Sorrel of each two ounces Conserve of Borrage of Sage flowers of each six drams Bole-Armoniack shavings of Harts-horn Sorrel-seeds of each two drams yellow or white Sanders half a dram Safferon one scruple sirrop of Wood-sorrel enough to make it a moyst Electuary mixe them well take as much as a Ches-nut at a time once or twice a day as you shall finde cause For the Richer sort Take the shavings of Harts-horn of Pearl of Coral Tormentil-roots Zedoarie true Terra-Sigillata of each a dram Citorn-pills yellow white and red Sanders of each half a Dram white Amber Hyacinth stone prepared of each two scruples Bezoar-stone of the East Unicorns horn of each twenty four grains Citron and Orange pills candied of each three drams Lignum Aloes one scruple white Sugar-candie twice the weight of all the rest mixe them well being made into a dredg-powder Take the weight of twelve pence at a time every morning fasting and also in the evening about five of the clock or an hour before supper With these Powders and Sugar there may bee made Lozenges and with convenient Conserves they may bee made into Electuaries Bezoar-water or Treacle-water is good both alone and in composition with these Antidotes London-Treacle is good to preserve from the sickness as also to cure the sick being taken upon the first apprehension in a greater quantity as to a man two drams and lesse to a weak body or a Childe in Cardus or Dragon-water Or Take the finest clear Aloes you can buy in colour like a Liver and therefore called Hepatica of both Cinamon and Myrrhe the weight of three French Crowns or of two and twenty pence of our mony of Cloves Mace Lignum-Aloes of Mastick of Bole-Oriental of each of these half an ounce mingle them together and beat them into a very fine Powder of the which take every morning fa●●ng the weight of a groat in white-Wine and Water Or Take a dry Fig and open it and put the kernel of a Wal-nut into the same being cut very small three or four leaves of Rue commonly called herb-grace a corn of salt then roast the Fig and eat it warme fast three or four hours after it and use this twice a week Or Take the powder of Tormentil the weight of six pence with sorrel or scabious water in Summer and in the Winter with the water of Valerian or common