eache halfe an ounce let all these 〈◊〉 beaten to a fine powder and searsed and then incorporate the whole with liquide Storax adding therevnto of Muske â—nd Amber of each a dramme of Ciuet two drammes make â—â—aste hereof with the infection of Gumme Tragacents in â—ose water â— prettie preseruatiue to be carried in a mans mouth during the time of infection which procureth a sauoury and sweete breath TAke of fine Sugar one ounce of Orace halfe an ounce of the shell of an Egge the inward skin being taken away halfe an ounce put the shell of the Egge into Muske Rose water till it be mollified for the space of eight dayes beat 〈◊〉 these to a fine powder and with Rose water wherin Gum Tracagant hath bene infused make prettie Pellets according so what bignesse you please These are very wholesome and make the breath swéete and comfort the heart inwardly and are of a temperat qualitie which you may kéep in your mouth some thrée houres An admirable and excellent defensatiue in forme of an oyntment to defend the heart in time of infection profitable both for the healthy and diseased and of admirable effects TAke of the best Treacle you can get or in stead thereof Methridate but Treacle is the better take I say two ounces The iuice of sixe Limons mixed together and put them into a litle glassed pipkin and let them boyle therein till halfe the iuice be consumed Then suffer it to coole and afterwards take two drams of beaten Saffron of Caroline and white Diptamy of each two drammes incorporate all these things together after they are well pounded and bring them to the forme of an ointment wherwith euery day annoint the region of the heart vnder the left pappe making a circle with the same round about the pap Afterward take an ounce of Christaline pure Arsenick and wrap it in Gossapine Cotton and red Taffata after the forme of a litle bag carry the same about you being bounde vnderneath or hard vpon your left pap by this meanes each man may be assured that he shall not be infected if so be he vse those interior remedies which I shal set downe and haue heretofore declared for the good of my Country An other excellent preseruatiue against the Plague TAke of the leaues of Mary-golds which the Latines call Calendula of Uerveine Scabious and Sorrell of each a handfull of the rootes of Gentian Zedoary and white Diptamy of each two drams boyle them all together for two houres space in good and pure fountaine-water from the value of a quart to a pinte adde thervnto the iuice of sixe Limons and as much Sugar as shal be sufficient make a sirope hereof and aromatise it with Cinamom and take thereof euery morning foure or fiue spoonefulls A singular water both for the healthy and diseased in the time of the sicknesse whereof they may take an ounce euery morning with much comfort TAke Ualerian Carline Zedoary good Mirrhe Bole Armenus Gentian of round Birtwoort of Aristolochia of Calamus Aromaticus of white Diptamy Imperatoria of each one ounce and a halfe of fiue Aloes two drams of Saffron a scruple beate all these to a fine powder and afterwards stéepe them in fiue pintes of excellently wel râ—ctified spirit of Wine and let them inâ—use therein sixe houres and sée the body wherein you put them be well luted After the sixe houres be past adde thervnto fiue pintes of good Malmessie and straine the same or rather you may leaue the simples in the bottome and dreine it clearly and gently Of this water euery morning fasting take two or thrée spoonefulls for it is an excellent and well approued remedy Excellent Pilles against the Plague TAke of Aloes one ounce of Mirrh and Saffron of each thrée drammes of Bole Armenus Terra Sigillata Zodoarie white Diptamus the rootes of Tormentil of each a dramme make Pilles of these being all of them well poudered and mixed with the iuice of Mary-goldes or redde Coleworts of which euery day take one and once euery moneth a dramme An excellent and approued remedie allowed by diuers learned mens experience TAke the rootes of Tormentil and of white Diptamus the rootes of Ualerian and white Daises and if it be possible to get them gréene it shal be the better Take these aboue named rootes as much of the one as of the other pound them and make a fine pouder of them Then take the decoction of Sorrel and let the aboue named pouder be infused in the same then let it be taken out and dried in the Sunne Afterwards beate it to pouder againe and infuse it anew and afterwards dry it in the Sunne as before which when you haue done thrée or foure times reserue the same pouder clearly in some conuenient vessell and when as any one feeleth himselfe strooken with the Plague giue him presently halfe an ounce of this pouder in Rose water or Scabious water or in nine houres after he shall séele himselfe infected This remedy in diuers persons and very oftentimes hath bene experimented and hath wrought wonderfull effects if it were giuen within the time prescribed A singular and secret Remedie the which I receiued from a worthy man of Venice admirable for his learning in all Sciences who of curtesie imparted the same vnto me with protestation that he had seene wonderfull effects of the same TAke of the Rootes of Tormentil and white Diptamy as much of the one as of the other of Bole Armenus washt in Rose water the quantitie of a great Chestnut of orientall Pearles one dramme of the sharings of Iuory one dramme and a halfe beate all these into a fine powder and incorporate them with conserue of Roses in a marble Morter reserue this confection in a vessell of glasse well couered Take hereof the quantitie of a great Nut in the Morning and drinke a spoonefull of the Iuice of Mary-golds or Lemons with Sugar after it The Gentleman that gaue me this assured mée that hée had giuen it to many in the time of the great Plague in Venice who though continually conuersant in the houses of those that were infected receiued no infection or preiudice by them A Remedie worthy the vse and noting An Opiate against the Plague extracted partly out of Galen partly out of Dioscorides and others of excellent effect TAke twentie common Nuttes of dried Figges to the number of 15. and of Rue and Scabious of each twentie leaues Of the rootes of both sorts of Aristolochia the round and long of each halfe an ounce of Tormentil white Diptamy Pimpernell Bay Berries Borage flowers the Kinde of the roote of Capres of each two drammes a halfe of Galingale Harts horne Mace and Mirrhe of eache two drammes of Bole Armenus Terra Sigillata common Salt of each two scruples beat all these to fine pouder and incorporate them with two pound of pure clarified Hony and make an Opiate therof wherof in the morning take the quantitie of a Nut
and drinke thereafter a litle white Rose Uinegre and Rose water and you shall find this medicine very effectuall A perfume for to aire the Chamber of him that is infected correcting the venemous aire TAke blacke Pitch Rosin white Frankincence of each sixe ounces of Mirrhe foure ounces of the wood of Aloes halfe a dramme of Storax and Beniamin of eache a dramme of Iuniper berries and the leaues of Rosemary of each two drammes make a grosse powder of these and in a Chafingdish and coales cast of the same perfume the Chamber A powder of great vertue against the Plague which was sent by Philip King of Spaine to Charles the ninth King of France in the yeare 1564. when as almost the whole kingdome of France was infected with the Plague TAke chosen and perfect Mirrhe the wood of Aloes Terra Sigillata of Bole of Armenia prepared of Mace Cloues and Saffron of each an ounce beat them to a fine powder of which you may take a dramme in Rose water or the iuice of Limons in sommer and in winter with good wine This powder was sent to the King and Quéenes Maiestie for a soueraine remedy Valleriola in his third booke of his Phisicall obseruations the first Enarration setteth downe a composition to this effect taken out of the best Authors in Phisicke especially out of Galen Paulus Aegineta Diascorides and Auicen according to this forme following Take of the best Bole of Armenia one ounce of perfect Cinamom halfe an ounce of the rootes of the hearbe called in Latin and Gréeke Pentaphillon or else Tormentil of each halfe an ounce of the roote of Gentian thrée drammes of the rootes of both the sorts of Aristolochia the round and long of the rootes of Florentine Lillies of each two drammes of the rootes of Enula Campana thrée drammes of the dried rinde of Oranges or Pomecytrons which is farre better and more effectual thrée drammes of Pomecytron séeds or in stead therof Orange or Limon of Tornep séede and Sorrel séede of each two drammes Of Iuniper berries Cloues Mace Nutmegs Zedoary and Angelica of each two drammes of the leaues of Rosemary Sage Rew Bittony and Chama Pilis of each a dramme of Bay-berries Saffron Masticke Frankinsence the shauings of Iuory orient Pearles white red and yealow Saunders of each a dramme of the flowers of red Roses of Uiolets of water Lillies and Buglosse of each two drammes let all these be beaten to a fine powder and with clarified Hony or the iuice of Limons make an Opiate thereof The dose of the powder to those that are in health is a dramme for preseruation and in those that are sick two drammes with Scabious or Rose water in sommer and with good wine in winter and if a man desire to haue it in an Opiate he may well take halfe an ounce A soueraine and excellent Remedie taken out of Alexis TAke Iuie berries of the oake in their full maturitie gathered if it be possible in such places as are Northward dry them in the shadow and afterwards kéepe them in a boxe or leather Sachell and reserue them for an especiall Remedy and when you would make vse thereof you shall giue of this pouder to those that are infected to the value of a dram as much as will couer a French Crowne mixe this powder with good white wine and let the Patient drinke thereof and couer him wel in his bed that he may sweat so long as he may endure and afterwards cause him to change his shirt shéetes and bed if it be possible And by experience it will profite for proofe wherof the Author produceth maruellous effects of this medicine especially of a Millanors being at Allep in Siria who witnesseth that he tooke this medicine and that sodainly the Carbuncle or Botch brake And this was in the yeare 1523. The Almaines and Flemmings in the time of the Plague vse this Remedie that ensueth TAke one part of Aqua Uita of the best thrée partes of Malmesie or other pure wine of Iuniper Berries halfe a handfull or of common Nuttes thrée or foure these doo they stéepe in the abouesaid Liquor thrée houres and afterwards eate them morning and euening This Remedie in old folkes in the winter time is not to be misliked Treacle and Methridate are excellent remedies in the Plague time if you take a dramme in sommer time in Rose water or Sorrell water and in winter with good Wine But those that take the same ought to abstaine from meate for the space of sixe houres after and to suppe little or nothing at all the day before for otherwise the saide medicines takes no effect See here the most soueraigne and exquisite remedies that may be found to preserue those that are in health as well the rich as the poore in this contagious time which interchangeably vpon all opportunities a man may vse But aboue all things it is behoueful to kéepe a good diet order euery waies and to sée the body be soluble for that it is one of the most principall points to preserue continue the body in health But amōgst those things that are most necessary requisit towards the continuance and preseruation of health and auoydance of contagion nothing is more to be respected then sobrietie and an orderly course of life for continence is the mother fostresse of all good disposition in mans body by reason that by sobrietie the health is confirmed and continued in his estate the humors are well tempered and naturall heate fortified the naturall passages of the body entertained in their due harmony the operations of nature euery one in themselues well and duly accomplished and by these reasons sobrietie is the foundation to warrantise the body from all euils as contrariwise intemperance is the source and and originall of all mishap and fatall infirmitie All which is confirmed by Hypocrates and Galen in the second booke Of the Aphorismes Aphorisme 17. and Hipocrates himselfe in the sixt of his Epidemies where he saith That the chiefest care that is to be had for to continue health consisteth principally in this to liue soberly to vse conuenient exercise and not to gorge a mans self with surfets The like also is confirmed by Galen and Plutarch in their writings and Bookes De Sanitate Tuenda wherein the error folly of the common sort appeareth most manifestly who dare in the time of infection and pestilence to ouercharge themselues with wine and fill their stomackes in the morning before they goe out of doores thinking by this time to coniure the time according to their lewd discourse and abate the euill vapour of the ayre whereas in effect they effect nothing but the contrarie For wine being taken fasting maketh the body more apt to conceiue infection through the heate thereof and the piercing qualitie and opening it causeth in the parts vessels of the body namely the vaines and arteries making thē by these meanes more capable to receiue the euill
sirrop of violets And if the patient wil not drinke barly water let him drinke fountaine water or raine water boiled and mixed with the sirrops aforesaide The patient likewise may in this feuer drinke water very fréely and his fill to the intent he may extinguish the inward heate of the pestilent feuer and not by little and little but fréely as Paulus Aegineta and Auicen thinke necessary in this disposition For which cause let this serue both to aduise the sicke his kéeper to alow drinke fréely the vse of water after which let the patient be wel couered to prouoke sweate which is one of the best euacuations that profiteth in this sicknes Chap. XII Rules as touching bloud-letting the potions and Euacuations which are necessary for him that is sicke of the plague AS soone as the sicke man by the signes aforesaid féels himselfe strooken he ought very spéedily séeke out for some remedy for this sickenesse neither leasure nor delay without danger of death by reason of the malignitie thereof opposed against mans life wherefore we ought with all diligent care to withstand the same and prohibit the venime and breake the forces thereof lest it woorke the vtter ruine of our bodies As soone therefore as any one féeleth himselfe seazed giue him this potion Take of the iuice of marigolds the quantity of two or thrée ounces giue it the patient to drinke with a little white wine or sorrel-water and couer him wel that he may sweat This Iuice maketh a man frée and assured from the venime as testifieth Alexander Benedictus in his treatise of the plague and it is a most tryed and notable secret And if he sweat after he hath taken the same hée shall be assured by the grace of God of perfect health In stead of the said hearbe you may take the iuice of veruine in like quantity or the Iuice of the hearbe called Scabious which hath great force and efficacy in this case giue two ounces of the said Iuice with white Wine Rose-water or Sorrel-water and you shall sée a wonderfull effect But these remedies ought to be giuen sodainly For if the sicke man dally a day or two before he complaine they haue no effect or force Of Blood-letting AS soone as the sicke féeleth himselfe strucken if he be sanguine yong and full you ought to let him bloud by those rules that ensue hereafter If the signe or tumor appeare not as yet you ought to let him bloud in the Mediana of the right arme rather than of the left to prouide lest the venime haue recourse to the hart and to take blood according to the repletion and vertue of the patient Or to worke more surely wée may take the veine in the foote called Saphena to diuert the venime from the noble parts or instéede of letting bloud apply cupping-glasses with scarification on his shoulders and buttocks From the strong able and well complexioned you may take some sixe ounces of bloud or at the least thrée or foure but for such as are weake they must not be dealt with And note that in this sickenesse we ought not to be busie in taking bloud although bloud-letting be necessarie because bloud is the treasury of life whose assistance nature néedeth to combate with the venime As also for that by much letting bloud mens forces are weakened and the venime worketh with more aduantage as shal be hereafter declared And whenas the patient is letten bloud wee ought to cause him kéepe in his mouth either a little péece of an orenge or a lemmon or a cloue or some cinnamon or else a little rose vineger and rose water mixed together to comfort his heart and vitall spirites But if the markes or botch do appeare the blood is to be drawne on that side of the body on which the tumor sheweth it selfe namely if the swelling beginneth to shew behinde the right eare drawe blood in the Cephalica of the right arme and so of the left If the signe appéere vnder the arme pits you shal cut the median of the same side namely on the right arm if the impostume be vnder the right armehole and that on the left likewise when the impostume sheweth it selfe vnder the left arme hole But in trueth the surest way is rather in this case to open the veines of the féete then of the armes to the end you may draw the venime farthest off if the signe appéere vnder the groyne strike the Saphena on the same side or rather the inward veine of the ham if it may be found the like ought also to be done in the carbuncle when it appéereth yet ought not the bloodletting be redoubled but onely vsed on that side where the carbuncle appéereth But note in this case of bloodletting that it ought to be done before the patient hath remained infected foure and twenty houres for after the terme is past blood letting is both hurtfull and pernicious because that by the same the contagion is inwardly drawne into the body and heart Whence it happeneth that the most part of those that are let blood doe die as by Hierome Fracastorius an excellent and noted Phisitian is sufficiently testified in his treatise of the Plague the third Booke and fift chapter who testifieth that all they who in the pestilent yéeres of 1505. and 1528. were let blood died all of them by the reason aforesaide because that where the interior séede of the venime is scattered and mixed with the blood and humors of the body which is done in two daies space or thereabout after a man féeleth himselfe infected letting blood is greatly harmefull because it causeth agitation of the blood and augmenteth by this means the putrifaction and by such agitation and motion the contagion doth more inwardly mixe it selfe with the humors and maketh them of pure and sincere corrupt and infected after no other maner than whenas stincking mud is mooued it venteth out the more and maketh the aire infected and stincking as is séene by experience or whenas a man shaketh or shoggeth a vessel full of salt or bitter water the water becommeth more bitter and salt than if it had béen suffered to be settled without moouing it For euery matter that is mooued is worse then that which remaineth in quiet as testifieth Galen in his fift booke de Symptomatum causis And by these reasons the said Fracastorius and Fernelius likewise men both of them excellently learned are of opinion that blood is not to be let in this case to whose iudgements I subscribe And for mine owne part and in trueth I finde it more expedient instéede of letting blood to vse cupping glasses with scarrification for after the second day is past phlebotomy is to be omitted Sée héere our instruction as touching blood-letting Of Purging AS touching purgation it ought to be administred in the beginning but rather with gentle and pleasing medicines than violent which doe weaken and force Nature and with them we ought to mixe
outward remedies that you may vse in this strange sicknesse How a man ought to proceede in curing the plague sore WHenas the plague sore appéereth in any of the emunctories it is a signe that Nature by her power would discharge the member principall of that venim which assaileth it and therfore hath she by her prouidence created in the heart the braine and liuer certaine glandalous and spungy parts which are apt to receiue the superfluities that are hurtful to those members For vnder the arme pittes there are certain kernels that serue the heart and these are the emunctories of that member as behinde the eares also there are the like which serue to discharge the braine and in the groines for the liuer And when as the venime inuades any of these principal members nature to warrantize the nobler part dischargeth and sendeth the venime to his proper emunctory wherefore if the hart be attainted with venim the plague sore will soon appéere vnder the arme pits if the braine be infected the sore wil appéere behinde the eares as also if the liuer be indempnified the sore wil breake out in the groine and because it is an expulsion which nature maketh to the exterior and vilder parts to defend the interior principall we ought to take great héed lest by cold repercussiue or astringent medicines we driue the sore inwards but rather bicause the said sore is of a venimous nature it ought to be driuen and forced outward by medicines that draw and are in qualitie hote and fitte to draw the sore to ripenesse and matter if it be possible When as the tumor appeareth in any of the saide emunctories you shall sodainly make incision round about the tumor after the manner of scarification made with the rasor to auoyde the inuenimed bloud and shall sodainely apply a cupping-glasse therevpon to draw out the venimous poison if that place be capable of a cupping-glasse as in the groine and behinde the eares but vnder the arme-pittes very hardly And afterwards you shal apply suppuratiue ripening medicines and such as draw after this forme Take a white onion and cut out the inward kore with your knife and make a sufficient hollow therein fill it with very good treacle or the theriacall powlder of Guidon couer and close it and roast it gently vnder the ashes till it be soft and hote as it comes from the fire or as the patient may indure it apply it to the sore This is one of the best remedies that a man can apply Or take the hearb scabious bruise it betwéene two stones and apply it on the sore either of it selfe or mixed with salted hogges grease You may also make a cataplasme according to this forme folowing take of the roots of white lillies wel cleansed halfe a handfull of the leaues and roots of mallowes and holy-hocks twoo handfulls of fat figges to the number of thirty of linte-séede and fenu-gréek séed of each halfe an ounce of leuaine one ounce of bran halfe a handfull of scabious halfe a handfull boyle al these in water stamp and straine them and afterwards adde vnto them wheate floure of lin-séede and fenugrée séede of each an ounce boyle them as before with a little water and hony Galbanum twoo drachmes armoniac a drachme the yelkes of egges two in number common salt a drachme oyle of white lillies as much as néedeth of hennes grease one ounce of safferne a drachme make a cataplasme of all these and apply it on the sore with fat wooll remoouing it two or thrée times a day This also is very good take the crummes of white bread to the quantitie of halfe a pound fatte figges xxx in number leuan two ounces liue snayles with their shells xx in number fenugréeke séede one ounce seethe all these together in water then beate them together and adde vnto them of salted hogs grease one ounce of oyle of white lillies as much as néedeth make a cataplasme heereof which is very good to ripen and breake an impostume The ancient Phisitions vse the implaster of Diachilon magnum and spread it on the sore of that I haue made proofe For it is a good drawer by reason of the gums that are ingredient It is likewise very allowable to draw out the venime from the sore to take a chicken or cocke and to pull the feathers from his taile and to apply him to the soare for by this meanes he driues out the venome and when he is dead apply another In stead of this remedy some vse to take great pullets and pigeons and cutting them in two along the backe apply them hote as they are vpon the tumor or carbuncle for this is an appropriate remedy both for the one the other When the kore shal be ripe you must open the same with an actual cautery which is better thē the lancet or cold yron because it comforteth the member and driueth out the venome by the actuall heate and violence of the fire I likewise aduise all those that are sicke of the plague to endure the same notwithstanding it shal affright them somewhat for it is the best and most wholsom remedy that may be giuen as both Albucatus and Auicen do testifie in that place where they discourse of the actuall cautery And instéed of the actuall cautery if the patient will not endure the same you must proceede with familiar ruptories of which the best is that which is made of ashes and quicke lime boyled together till such time as the water is consumed and there remaineth nothing but the ashes and lime incorporated and vnited together which is a strong and excellent ruptory and such a one as worketh his operation without any or very little payne as at diuers times and in many patients I haue approoued And note that in these pestilent tumors you must not exspect the intire maturation thereof but must open the same before it be thorowly ripe to the end that the venome remaine not long time in the body and there thorough steame vp to the principall members and communicate the venome with them to the danger of him that is diseased and therefore it is better to open them sooner than later And whenas the sores or sore is opened you must not thrust bigge tents of lint into them but little ones to the end that the venimous matter may the better issue forth make no stay in the sore And in this case Alexander Benedictus councelleth in the 14. chap. of his booke de peste not to put any tents of linte or other linnen into the sore lest the venime be forced backe and in effect the reason is very good He likewise willeth vs not to bind vp the sore too straight when it is opened thinking the ligature sufficient which kéepeth the plaisters to the sore And for mine owne part I am truly assured that it is far better to vse certaine tents of hollow siluer lead or tinne then of lint altogether to
an egge incorporate with salt and the iuyce of scabious is a singular medicine and very common The simple medicines that are conuenient in this case is scabious pounded betwéeue two stones and applyed the hearbe also which is caled Cauda Equina that is to say horse taile which is a kinde of comfery and Verbascum which the Apoticaries call Tapsus Barbalus the english hearb Mullen is a good remedy The like qualitie is by diuers of our Maisters ascribed to the Saphire which hath the vertue to extinguish the venime of the carbuncle if the sore be diuerse times touched with that stone Mythridate also or treacle are very good to be layd therevnto and old nuttes applied with dryed figges And note that as soone as the carbuncle appéereth it is good to scarifie it round about with the rasor as Galen in the xiiii booke of his Methode saith or to apply horse-leaches to draw the venimous blood outward these are the remedies which you must presently lay vpon the carbuncle But round about the partes that are néere the sore you must apply repercussiue medicines for feare lest the venime attaint them to which effect the vnguent de bolo is the chiefest and most ordinary meanes applyed round about For it conforteth the part and repulseth the venime You shall therefore do thus Take of oyle of roses thrée ounces of rose vineger one ounce of Bole Armenus an ounce and a halfe make an oyntment thereof and apply it round about the carbuncle Or thus take oyle of roses Omphacine made of gréene oliues wine of pomgranats one or two ounces Bole Armenus and Terra Sigillata for the rich of each halfe an ounce make an oyntment thereof and apply it round about the carbuncle Galen maketh a plaster of plantane pomegranets with theyr rindes and houshold bread and boyleth them in strong wine adding lintels vnto them Or take lintells crummes of browne bread and bran and boyle them in vineger make a plaster of them you may make the like also of sowre pomegranets cut into quarters with their rinde and sodde in vineger til they be brought to a pulpe beate them and apply them about the carbuncle Or else thus Take of oyle of roses as much as sufficeth dissolue in it Bole Armenus Sanguis Draconis or beaten galls and make an oyntment to the same vse The whites of egges likewise beaten with rose vineger rosewater and clouts stéeped in that liquor may be ministred round about the sore Then are those medicines that defence the partes from the venime of the carbuncle Hitherto I haue taught both what should be applied vppon and round about the sore it remaineth now to set downe the meanes how to breake the carbuncle which are these Take of Opoponax thrée drachmes of fat figs an ounce of currans as much of leuen halfe an ounce beate and mixe al together and apply it on the carbuncle The doung of a man also is a fit remedy but for that it is filthy vse better yet wanteth it not his effect Take the yelke of an egge and a little salt and incorporate them with the iuyce of scabious and minister it Or do after this maner Take strong leuen one ounce of scabious and the greater comfery of each one ounce of smal reasins without their stones half an ounce Cantarides sixe in number of sparrowes doung thrée drachmes incorporate all with oyle of white lillies This also is good Take of fatte figges thrée ounces of leuen two ounces of mustard seede the leaues of rew common salt the roots of Aristologe the round of ech an ounce and a halfe of the meale of wheate and fenugreeke of each an ounce of common hony as much as sufficeth mixe al together and apply it To make the Eschare or dead flesh to fall out of the carbuncle TAke fresh butter and capons greace of each one ounce and the yelke of an egge mix them together and minister it you may likewise adde an ounce of Basilicon take also of the roots of holihockes two handfulls of buglosse a handfull séethe them in water and beat them togither and straine them and adde vnto them of the powlder of fenugréeke and lin-séed of each an ounce of fresh butter washed in water of fresh hogs-greace of each an ounce make an oyntment Or take of holi-hocke roots of beare-foote of mallowes and Herbe Robert called storcks-bill of each a handfull séethe them together in water stamp and strain them mixe them with fresh butter and capons greace apply them to the sore till the eschare fall Rasis made a plaster of hony and Sarcacoll of each a like and ministred the same After the Eschare is falne you must mundifie the vlcer with one of those mundifiers which are described in the twentieth chapter and then when the carbuncle shal be well purged from matter and corruption and yéeldeth no more incarnate the same with this vnguent folowing Take of mastike full of gum white incense Aristoloch the round mirrh of the flowre of Orobus Litharge Ceruse Aloes of each a like of déere suet as much as sufficeth a little oyle of roses make an oyntment of these according to art and apply it till the sore be thorowly cicatrized And because in carbuncles there ordinary happeneth some deformed cicatrice after they are healed to repaire and correct the same you may vse these remedies following take of Borax two drachmes of Camphire one drachme of white corall halfe an ounce of gumme dragacanth starch cristall of the stone called Dentalis white incense common salt of each thrée drachmes of white marble twoo drachmes Let the gumme dragant be beaten in a marble morter and the rest be beaten and serced afterwards adde hogges-greace clarified goats-greace capons-greace of each an ounce and a halfe melt al together in a leaden vessell and straine it thorow a cloath and after mixe the powlders except the Camphire and Borax séeth all together on a gentle fire stirring it often with a spatula and when it beginneth to séethe put to the camphire and when they are all of them well incorporated together kéepe this oyntment in a vessell of lead for it hath a maruelous effect For the poore to the saide intent you may take fresh chéese mixed with hony and a little powlder of Ceruse Likewise take hogges grease to the value of a pound prepared after this manner boyle it in a little white wine and afterwardes straine it thorow a cloth and incorporate the same in a marble morter with goates milke or plantane water then adde vnto it litharge of gold vnmelted brimstone of each three ounces of white incense one ounce of quicke siluer quenched and killed in the iuyce of limons halfe an ounce of Borax two drachmes of Camphire a drachme make an oyntment hereof Take likewise as much lime as you list that is quenched and slacked in water wash it sixe times in plantane or raine water vntill such time as all the sharpenesse thereof be
taken away mixe the same with oyle of roses in a leaden morter and stirre it well and you shall haue a good oyntment to repaire the deformed cicatrises which are left after carbuncles This is the whole forme of the cure of a pestilent carbuncle Chap. XV. The maner how to withstand the most vrgent accidents that happen in the pestilent feuer the Botch and Carbuncle THE most troublesome and dangerous accidents in this sickenesse are weakenesse of vertue faintings of the heart soundings rauing or frensie extreame drith profound sléepe or continuall waking crampes coldnesse of the extreame parts which we ought diuersly to correct according as the nature of each of them requireth The féeblenesse of vertue which may be knowne by the weaknesse of the pulse palenesse of the face and dulnesse of the patient may be preuented or corrected by comforting the sicke by good and cordiall broths and colices cawdles or such like with good wine also as Galen commandeth in the twelfth booke of his Methode ministring it but little in quantitie and alayed with water or to make him take a toste of bread with sugar cinamon stéeped in good white or claret wine you shall giue him Diamargariton Manus Christi with pearles and amongest al the medicines that are proper to comfort the vertue the confection Alchermes described by Mesue in his Antidotary is allowed which hath maruelous force and efficacie to restore vertue almost extinct in the sicke as by diuerse experiments I am able to auow to the valew of a drachme in buglosse water or white wine It shal be good also to comfort the patient to incourage him with friendly words to embolden him extinguish his feare for these meanes both quicken and strengthen vertue The faintings of the heart which the Gréekes call Lipothimiae may be eased by the Electuary of Diamargariton or the powlder thereof annexing vnto it the powlder of Electuarium de gemmis or a little of the powlder of Diamosci dulcis giuen in white wine or buglosse or scabious water to the valew of a drachme And in this accident you must comfort the sick with good odors and rubbe the pulses of his armes and his temples with rose water and rose vineger or with the mixture of rose water rose vineger the powlder of cloues and cinamon and if the patient be bound it wil be good to giue him a clister of the decoction of mallowes béetes borage mercury mellon séedes and a little annice séede and branne and dissolue therein an ounce of Catholicon or Cassia oyle of violettes and grosse sugar If the sicke fall into a sound giue him sodainely two or thrée spoonefuls of pure wine as Galen commaundeth in the twelfth of his Methode and in such a case it is good to giue him foure graines of muske dissolued in good wine and buglosse water if the Feuer be not ouer vehement or instéede of this remedie giue him this drinke folowing Take of powlder of cloues halfe a drachme of the powlder of pearles and corrall of each halfe a drachme make a drinke with buglosse water and a little good white wine or claret wine And in such an accident you must crie vpon the sicke rubbe him violently make him smel rose water and muske or giue him a drachme of the confection Alchermes with buglosse water and a little wine and halfe a drachme of pearles for the rich and for the poore the powlder of cloues And if he abound in cholerike humors purge him with a little rubarbe or the Electuary of the Iuyce of roses or the sirrope of roses It is good also to cast fresh water very oftentimes in his face for it quickeneth the decayed spirites These are the remedies for soundings If the patient fall a rauing you must giue him some spéedy euacuation to diuert the humors lest they mount to the braine you must therefore rubbe the lower partes very often and apply ligatures to the extremities and make him take sirrope of poppy with water of the decoction of lettuce purselane or sorrell and wash his féete and armes with the warme decoction of the leaues of willow vine leaues lettice floures of roses and lillies camomile and the tops of white poppy boyled in water and kéepe the patient in silence and in a secret place and to beware that he speak not as much as is possible and if the raging be ouerfurious you ought to binde him and to take all thinges from him that may hurt him as all sorts of armor and other offensible things finally to procure him to sléepe The extreame thirst that presseth the patient must be eased by drincking fréely as Paulus Aegineta and Auicen commaund and his drinke shall be fresh water in great quantitie if the patient be yoong and strong or mixed with sirope of limons or sower grapes or sirop of violets And note that he must drink largely and aboundantly to extinguish the heate of the feuer that burneth him inwardly for to drincke in little quantitie rather inflameth then cooleth the same And therefore the aboue named Authors will that in the pestilent feuer we should allow aboundance of drinke for it either prouoketh vomite or sweate or extinguisheth the feuer heauinesse of sléep must be remedied by strong rubbings of the féete and handes by often calling on the sicke by kéeping him in a lightsome chamber by clapping cupping glasses with scarification to the nape of his necke by sharpe clisters made with the decoction of mallowes holihockes béetes hisope bitony rew sage and the lesser centory of each a handfull agaric two drachmes polipody an ounce coloquintida a drachme branne a handfull let all be boyled in water and strayned to which you may adde of catholicon one ounce of the electuary of Indie or Hiera piera composita halfe an ounce of salt a drachme of common hony halfe an ounce make hereof a clister which he may take in the morning or after supper during his heauines Subeth and déepe sléepe It is good also to make him smel to the powlder of burnt haire mixed with vineger for it awaketh him much And if contrariwise the patient cannot sléepe you shall giue him two ounces of the sirope of poppy or one ounce an houre before he take rest with the decoction of lettuce and poppy séede and you shal annoynt his forehead with vnguentum populeonis or alittle of the séedes of white poppy and annice you may annoynt his nosthrills also with the oyles of poppy and violets with a graine of Opium and saffron incorporated together if necessity require it and not otherwise If the patient be seazed with the cramp which is a mortal signe and after which few escape as Hippocrates testifieth in his second booke 2◠Aphorisme yet must we notwithstanding assist all that wée may and annoynt the nape of his necke with oyles of white lillies and violets and make him holde in his mouth a péece of nutmeg and chew it often you shall likewise giue him
and onely reserue some to their ordinarie vse For where there is a pestilent sickenesse in a house it continually infecteth the ayre where it raigneth the garments couerlets bedding and shéetes and all things that are capable thereof or either receiue the breath sweat spittings or vapor that issueth from the sick and al things that are of a slender substance and full of pores are fit to receiue and that verie easily such infection as are woollen linnen cotten and feathers wherefore it behooueth aboue all other things that such houshold-stuffe be carefully cleansed aired washed and purged For if they be once attaynted they long time retaine the infection in them because the venime inbibeth and incorporateth it self in their substance very vehemently by reason of the spongines and thinnest of these things and as oyle pitch and rosin and such like norish conserue and augmēt the fire in that they yéeld it a conuenient matter so likewise doth woollen cotten fethers linnen and such like nourish and entertaine for a long time that infection which is imparted vnto them from the sicke retaining the pestilēt venime conceiued in them for a long time Euen as we sée chists and coffers where we lay swéet bags to perfume our linnen or garments doe long time retaine that odor which we laid on them as lauender roses oringes and such like which sort of odour is maintained a long time in these garments and linnen as experience teacheth vs which also we sée in Cotton wherein a man hath wrapped muske or ciuet which keepeth the said odour an infinite time The which the Poet Horace hath aptly expressed in this verse Quo semel est imbuta recens seruabit odorem Testa diu The vessel long time will retaine The odor which it first did gaine Since therefore such infection may long time remaine hidden in the things aforesaide wée ought very diligently to cleanse them after this forme that ensueth The garments of such as are dead of the plague if they be rich ought to be burned according as the custome is in Italy or if poore whose misery is such as they cannot buy new let the cloathes they haue vsed be bucked and washed in lie and oftentimes exposed to the northerly winde and sunne and perfumed with rosemary Iuniper and such like and in time of drith be exposed to the Northerne ayre which drieth al infectious vapors for the garments that are infected may retaine the same foure yeares nay the feather-beds seauen yéeres as Alexander Benedictus testifieth Note also that feather-beds cannot be cleared except the tikes be opened and the downe be ayred till a moneth or forty dayes be past in which time they may be purified Let each bench wenscote and other tables of the house be thorowly washed with water and vineger so that no sluttish corner be left Let the windowes by day be kept open to the north and shut when the south wind bloweth Thus in xxiiii dayes may the wooden implements be ayred If any sicke man hath afore worne a furr'd gowne let each man beware how he weareth it after for furre is too apt to take infection as appeareth in those xxv hie Almaines of whom Hierome Fracastorius maketh mētion who in the yeare 1511. in Verona died one after another til al were made away by wearing of that gowne The surgeon that hath assisted the sicke after xl dayes triall may be admitted to conuerse the Citty and so the rest after sixty so preseruatiues and purges haue béene obserued and especialy so mirth ioy and pleasure haue been their companions if men obserue these precepts they may by Gods helpe and by kéeping good order auoyde the plague by those meanes I haue discouered by which helps there wil be no humors capable of infection and where there is no matter fit to receiue the same there can it not surprise any man Generall rules to bee obserued by all men in the plague time FIrst must we call vpon God desiring him to defend vs secondly but especially when we are fasting we ought to flie from the conuersation of those that are infected Let the wind be betwéene thée and the person that is sicke or some perfume be kindled or hold in thy hand some odoriferous perfume Fly the narrow wayes and stréets where are dunghils hant no vaine assemblies of feasts but if thy meanes be to follow Hippocrates rule Fuge longe cito Tarde or if thou must néeds stay be temperate aduised deuout and God shal blesse thée to whose mercy and thy harty praiers I humbly commend me FINIS A Table or Index A. ANgelica roote to prepare it fol. 7. Aptham how to helpe it fol. 26. B. BLoud when and where it is to be drawn fol. 17 18.40 Bolarmoniake how to prepare it fol. 19. Botch in the throte to cure it fol. 17. Botch how to know where it will be although no signe appeare fol. 18. Botch the generall cure thereof fol. 30. Botch that is hard and will not come to maturation how to helpe it fol. 32 Botch how to draw it from one place to another fol. 34 Botch when hee strickes in againe how to bring him out fol. 33. Botch how to draw him frō one place to another fol. 34. C. Carbunkle or blayne how to know him as also to cure it fol. 35. Carbunkle with paine and inflammation to helpe it f. 36 Chickens how to applie them fol. 17 Cordiall preseruatiues fol. 4. Cordiall to be taken after purging fol. 26. Costiuenes how to helpe it fol. 8.9 D. Digestiue for a botch how to make it fol. 30.31.33 Dyet to be kept in time of the plague fol. 11. Dyet for them that haue the small pockes fol. 41. E. EAres how to preserue them from the pockes fol. 41. Eares running of them what you must do to it fol. 47 Epithemation to comforte the harte fol 2.42 Epithemation for a botch fol. 34. Exercise and orders to be kept in the plague fol. 12. Eyes how to preserue them from the pockes fol 41 Eye paine and burning therein to ease it fol. 41 Eye perle or web therein to helpe it fol. 46 Eyes fastered and clong together to helpe it fol. 46. F. Faynting and pounding to helpe it fol. 23 Face how to preserue it from deformiting in the small pockes fol. 43. Face spotes therein and rednes after the pockes are gone to helpe it fol 46 Feete extreame heate in them with the smal pockes to helpe it fol. 45. Floures of wemen stopt to prouoke them fol. 10.11 Flixe how to stop it fol. 25. H. HAndes and feete extreame heate in them with the small pockes to helpe it fol. 45. Head lightnes and paine therein for want of sleepe f. 25 Holes in the face with the small pockes what is to bee done to it fol. 47 Hoarsnes remayning after the pockes are gone to helpe it fol. 48 I. Issues commended against the plague fol. 11. Iuleps Cordiall to make them fol. 22. Iulep to quench thirst fol. 23.24 L. LAske or flixe how to stop it fol. 25. Longs how to preserue them from the pockes f. 41. M. MAturatiue to ripe and rot a botch fol. 31.32.35 Mouth vlceration therin called Aptham to helpe it fol. 26. Mouth sorenes and vlceration therein with the small pockes how to preuent and cure the same fol. 45. Mundificatiue for a carbunkle or blayne fol. 36. N. Nodule against the plague fol. 7. Nosgaye against the plague fol. 7. Nostrels how to preserue them from the pockes fol. 41. Nostrels stopt and vlcerated with the small pockes to helpe it foll 47. O. Opiat good to expell the plague fol. 19. Oyntment to keepe on sollible fol. 8. Oyntment to prouoke sleepe and ease paine of the head fol. 26. Oyntment to keepe the face from pitting in the small pockes fol. 43. P. Parfumes against the plague fol. 3 Pilles to keepe one sollible fol 9. Pilles to purge the body fol 9. Plague what it is fol. 1. Plague cause thereof fol. 1. Plague forewarnings thereof fol. 2. Plague how to preuent it fol. 2 Plague how to cure it fol. 16. Plague how to expell it fol. 18. vnto 21. Pomanders against the plague fol. 6. Potion to purge the body fol. 10. Potion to expell the plague fol. 20. Preseruatiue against the plague fol. 4. Pouder to purge the body fol. 10. Pouders to expell the plague fol. 18.19 Pockes and measels whereof they proceede fol. 38 Pockes and measels how to cure them fol. 40 Pockes why they are infectious fol. 39. Pockes how to maturate them fol. 44. Pockes or measels that are slowe in comming forth to helpe it fol. 42. Pocks and measels how to vse them when they are come forth fol. 43. Pockes vlcerated how to cure it fol. 44. Purgation for a strong body fol. 24 Purgation for a plethoricke body fol. 24. Purgation for a weake body fol. 25. Purging when it is tollerable fol. 24 Q Quilte against the plague fol. 5. Quilte for the harte after sweate fol. 22. R Rauing and raging to helpe it fol. 26. Raysins laxatiue how to make them fol. 8 S Signs to know whē one is infected with the plague f 15 Signes of recouerie in the plague fol. 15 Signes of death in the plague fol. 15. Signes to know whē one is infected with the smal pox f. 39. Signes laudable and ill signes in the small pockes f. 39. Scabes which chance to come after the pockes are gone to helpe them fol. 48. Sleepe when it is tollerable fol. 23. Sleepe an oyntment to prouoke it fol. 26. Sounding how to helpe it fol. 23. Suppository how to make it fol. 8. T Thirst a Iulep to quench it fol. 23.24.43 Throte botch therein to helpe it fol. 17 Throte how to preserue it from the pockes fol 41. Throte vlceration therein to helpe it fol. 45. V Ventoses when and where to applie them fol. 18. Vessicatorie how to make it fol. 32. Vesicatorie of the sicke fol. 14. Vnguent defensatiue against the plague fol. 21. Vlceration of the small pockes to helpe it fol. 44. Vnguent for spots and rednes of the face fol. 47. Vomiting extreamely to helpe it fol. 28. W Water good against the plague fol. 20 Water for spots and rednes of the face after the small pockes are gone fol. 46. Y Yexing or yoxe how to helpe it fol. 28