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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

strained hard that the flesh may be left juiceless so will all the strength of the meat be in the broth which you may spice with some of these powders following Take of red Saunders half an ounce Cinnamon three drams and half Saffron half a dram make them into a fine powder Or else make a powder thus Take of Cinnamon half an ounce Cloves and Saffron of each half a dram red Coral two scruples and the weight of all in Sugar Let all be more sparing in diet now then at other times eat little and drink less but never go out of doors fasting But first take an Antidote of which there are several some whereof for their excellency I shall here nominate Theriaca Andromachi Venice-Triacle Theriaca Londinensis London-Triacle Mithridatium Damocratis Mithridate Electuarium de ovo Imperatoris Antidotus magna Matthioli Confectio liberans Diascordium Of any of these take the quantity of a Nutmeg and of Confectio Alkermes and Confectio de Hiacyntho the quantity of an hazel-nut Or you may take a powder called Pulvis contra Pestem Montagnanae half a dram at a time or half an ounce of Angelica-water or aqua Theriacalis either with white-wine and a few drops of the juice of a Lemmon or aqua Bezoartica Langii Aqua coelestis Matthioli for the richer sort with a drop of oyl of Vitriol in half an ounce of either But for such as love not the taste of physick and had rather take their Antidote in form of Pills then otherwise let a skilful Apothecary make this Mass of Pills following Recip Zadoarie Ligni Aloes Agrimonie Croci Aristolochie rotunde Dictamni Gentiane cort Citri semp Citri ana scrup 1. Coriandri prepar Tormentille Santali rūb Corallii rub Spodii Myrobalan Emblic ana drach 2. Terrae sigillat drach 2. Boli-Armeni drach 3. cum syrupo ex Acetositate Citri fiat Massa Of which 10 15 20. or two shillings grains may be taken at once in one or two or three Pills as the person can swallow them in bigness Those that are offended with the heat of Triacle or other of the hot Antidotes above-mentioned may use this Opiate of Palmarius which is excellent for hot complexions Recip Flor. Bugloss Boraginis Cariophillorum Ros rub horum separatim conditorum ana unc 1. Terre Lemnie Boli-Armeni Scobis Cornu Cervicis ana drach 2. Margarit prepar drach 1. Ambari grisci scrup ss surup de succo Bugloss q. s fiat Opiata S. A. The Dose is the quantity of a Nutmeg An especial care must be had that women with childe be not over-heated with common Antidotes therefore theirs must be only of Terra Lemnia Bole-Armoniack Harts-horn Conserves and syrrups of Roses Violets and Betony or a little Mithridate with twice as much conserve of Burrage or Bugloss likewise the species de gemmis frig or of Diamargar frig in Burrage Bugloss and Carduus-water Or else such may have this Antidote made for them Recip Cornu Cervi Cinamoni nucis Mosch Santalorum omnium ana drach 1. Rad. Angelice Tormentille Enulecamp ana drach ss f. pul subt Then take Conserves of Burrage and Bugloss each three drams with the like quantity of syrrup of Lemmons and dry'd Roses f. conditum s a. There is nothing fitter or better for young children then Bole-Armoniack or Terra Lemnia with a little of the root of Tormentil or Citron-Pills made into fine powder and mixed with their meats butter and broths for their break-fast And because they are not much to be tampered with by internal Medicines anoint the region of their hearts with the oyl of Hypericon every morning and evening or with oyl of Scorpions or oyl of _____ or else let them commonly wear next their skin over their heart such a Quilt as this Take of red Roses two drams red Saunders red Coral and Spodium of each one dram Zedoary Lignum-Aloes Cinamon Cloves Citron-Pill Saffron of each half a dram Sew it up in a piece of red Sarcenet or Callico moisten it with a little Rose-vinegar so heat it and apply it warm and when it begins to be dry moisten it and after the same manner heat it again Always observing this following direction When you suspect a childe to have the worms in a contagious time use not worm-seed nor those common trifles but order it as in danger of infection for that disease coming of so much putrefaction as it doth is as apt to receive contagion as tinder to take fire give it therefore 10 or 20 grains of this powder following Take of Harts-horn one dram Citron-Pill roots of Angelica and Tormentil Rheubarb and Coralline of each half a dram Make all into a fine powder and give the aforesaid quantity in a little Carduus-water sweetned with some sugar But you must be sure to abstain from all meat and drink for two or three hours after the taking of any of these Antidotes and then eat a piece of bread and butter strewed with a piece of grated Nutmeg or bread and Sallet-oyl spiced with the powder of Tormentil-roots or a piece of bread sopped in white-wine allayed with a little vinegar Let your dinner be about high Noon and then eat not of above two or three several dishes Let your supper be about five or six in the evening and then let one dish suffice for it is a pretty saying and worthy of observation In the morning a little is enough at noon enough is but a little but at night a little may be too much Go not to bed till three or four hours after supper lest sleeping upon a full stomack you hinder digestion And so I bid good night to the second point of Diet. The third Point is Repletion and Evacuation When you rise in the morning rub your sides arms thighs and legs downwards gently your cloaths being on comb your head and rub it hake spit and blow your nose to evacuate the excrements of your head and stomack then assay to make water and to go to stool and labour to bring your body to this daily custom for the body ought especially to be kept free from superfluities saith Galen lib. 1. de differ treb. cap. 4. therefore if you be costive use some Suppository or Clister and suffer not two whole dayes to pass without such evacuation It is necessary for every one who hath so much understanding that he learn to know whether he be Phlethorick or Cachochimick if Phlethorick that is full of blood as those that live in high feeding it will appear by his high colour full veins pulse greater and more frequent then it used ordinarily to be pursiness heaviness and dulness of body and such like signes if you be costive take a common Clister first then be let blood according to the appointment of some skilful Physician and so ordered afterwards according to Art If Cacochimick that is full of gross and corrupt humours which will appear by the paleness and ill colour of the face defective strength and