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A42397	A mite cast into the treasury of the famous city of London being a brief and methodical discourse of the nature, causes, symptomes, remedies and preservation from the plague, in this calamitous year, 1665 : digested into aphorismes / by Theophilvs Garencieres ...	Garencières, Theophilus, 1610-1680.	1665 (1665)	Wing G255; ESTC R16663	7,254	15

time is the only Antidote against all Plagues Poisons bitings and stingings of venemous Beasts a present help to the Falling-Sicknesse and Apoplectical fits to the Palsy Tissick spitting of Blood Jaundies Dropsy Colick and all kind of Melancholy the Gout Madnesse c. It procureth the natural courses in Women openeth obstructions expelleth dead children out of the Womb strengthneth the Braines the Liver the Stomack the Heart and in a word the whole body and preserveth it from all contagion and putrefaction XXVII Our Cordial and miraculous water is thus made Take of Venice-Treacle one pound of the roots of Cypress Tormentill Enula Campana Dictamnum of each one ounce Angelica and Carduus-Benedictus leaves of each one handfull of the four Cordial-Flowers of each a quarter of an ounce of Saffron a quarter of an ounce cut the roots and leaves small and dissolve your Treacle in a pint of rose-Rose-water then add to all that four quarts and a pint of the best and strongest Claret-Wine you can get steepall in a vessel close stopped a whole night in the morning still it in Balneo and draw two quarts of the first water and keep it for your use you may draw the rest of the liquour too if you will but keep it by it self and sweeten the first pottle of water with half a pound of loaf Sugar and keep it in a glass well stopped for your use XXVIII Whereas we have said before that the pestilential Feaver was alwaies or most commonly accompanied with either of these three Symptomes to wit a Botch a Carbuncle or the Tokens We say now that for the Tokens they require no particular cure but only the general one of sweating but the other two must have a peculiar one for themselves besides that of sweating and therefore first concerning the Botch XXIX A pestilent Botch is a swelling or tumour growing most commonly in the Emunctories of the bodie as behind the ears in the arm-pits but most frequently in the groin It s figure in the beginning is oblong with as it were a string or a sinew along in the middle of it but by degrees it groweth round and of the breadth of some times 2. or 3. or 4. fingers The cure of it is first with a Cupping-glass to draw it forth as much as you can and then bring it to maturitie and suppuration with either a drawing pultis or plaster XXX The pultis is thus made Take of roots of Cumfrey and Lilies and of Onions of each one ounce of the leaves of sorrell one handfull fry them tender with sweet butter then stamp them altogether and add some oil of Lilies Hoggs grease Mithridate and Yest and make a pultis to be applied warm upon the Botch and to be renewed once every twelve hours It will speedily draw forth maturate and break the Botch As for a plaster you shall find none better then that which is made of equal portions of Pitch Galbanum and Diachylon cum gummi melted together upon a soft fire The Botch being broken the common ointment called Basilicon will suffice for the cure and cicatrization of it dressing it twice a day till it be quite whole XXXI A pestilential Carbuncle appeareth at first like a tumour or pustule as if the flesh had been burnt in that place and is at first about the bignesse of a pins head or a little pease but sometimes groweth to a fearfull bignesse it is of a round and sharp-pointed figure and sticketh so fast to the part where it groweth that the skin cannot be loosened from the flesh There is a great heat burning and pain as if the part was pricked with needles with an unsufferable itching When the tumour groweth bigger there appeareth in the middle of it a pustule like those that appear where the flesh hath been burnt Any body would think there is some matter in it but when it is open no matter cometh out but the flesh under looketh black and crustie as if it had been burnt with a hot Iron Round about it the flesh is of several colours as the rain-bow red purple black and alwaies shining as pitch or seacoles In every Carbuncle there is a feeling as it were of a great weight as if the part was crushed with a heavie lump of lead and tied too hard with a string Those that go back again into the bodie after they have appeared or being brought to suppuration do grow drie on a sudden are mortal These Carbuncles proceed from an adust cholerick and melancholick blood and are more frequent in hot Countries as the botches are in the cold ones XXXII The cure of a Carbuncle is to bring it to a softnesse and suppur●tion therefore first take Mallowes and Violet leafs the roots of Lilies Linseed in powder Figgs sliced Plantain Hemlock and Housleeke boil all in a sufficient quantity of running water and make a fomentation to be used four or five times a day and after the fomentation apply this pultis lukewarm Take of Mallowes and Violet leafs Sorrell Housleeke of each two handfulls fry them in sweet butter and stamp them afterwards with the yolks of Five Eggs and and four ounces of honie of Roses and make a pultis to be renewed every 12. hours Pultises in this case are alwayes to be preferred before plaisters because plaisters stop the pores of the bodie and hinder the expiration of the pestilential venome XXXIII Let it be observed for a most material thing that the pulse in the Plague is always Quick Small Obscure and Intermittent XXXIV Having now in a few lines expressed the nature and cure of the Plague and its symptomes it remaineth also we should give some praeservative against it Therefore take of Sage Rue Angelica and Carduus Benedictus of each one good handfull stamp all and boil them gently in a close pipkin with three quarts of very good Claret till it cometh to two adding to it three penny waight of long pepper three quarters of an ounce of ginger half an ounce of nutmeggs beaten in powder when the liquour is boiled strain it and dissolve in it half an ounce of Mithridate and as much of Venice treacle and one dragme of good Saffron and keep it all in a close Glasse for your use The dose is two spoonfulls in a morning fasting one hour after and then go to breakfast which is never to be omitted in infectious times XXXV The short compasse of two Sheets of Paper admitting no more I shall conclude assuring all the Readers that I have said nothing here but what is most true and I am able to justifie by Reason and Experience as those will find who shall be pleased to employ me From my House in Clerkenwell Close near the Church the 14. day of Septemb. 1665. GAKENCIERES FINIS

and bodies to receive it Hence it is that some are more apt to receive the infection then others The causes of both these dispositions are above the knowledge of humane understanding XV. This malignant and occult quality of the Plague lieth chiefly in the spirits or spiritual parts of the blood hence it is that the patients are neither thirsty nor their urine altered unlesse there be some other distempers joined with it XVI In a pestilential constitution of the air there is scarce any other disease raigneth but the Plague or some few others that will turn into it by reason of the contagion and infection therefore most part of the diseases mentioned in the bills of Mortality as Feavers either simple or spotted griping of the Gutts Surfeits Toothaches and Wormes in Children Loosenesse bloody Fluxes c. let them be accounted pestilential and so be proceeded against accordingly XVII This pestilential Feaver being of different nature from all others and killing only by its malignity and poisonous quality and not by any preternatural heat or Intempery requireth also a peculiar way of cure which is by cordials sudorifick Antidotes all other evacuations as purging bleeding vomiting clystering c. either procured by art or accidentally happening being mortal The reason of it is that the intention of Nature for the cure of this disease as of all others which proceed from poisonous qualities is to thrust and expell the disease from the center to the circumference and so to preserve the heart which is the fountain of life What can therefore a Physitian who is but a minister and servant of Nature answer for himself if while she is busied about her work he goeth by his revulsions of purging bleeding clystering c. to disturb her and take her away from her intention and so to compell her in a manner to bring the disease back again from the circumference to the center Doth not even common experience teach us that if you broach a barrel of Beer whilest it is working you destroy the intention of Nature and the Beer will never be good for any thing What I say of the Plague let it be said also of the small pox XVIII Therefore assoon as any one findeth himself stricken with any one of the foresaid symptomes viz. a Head-ake Vomiting Faintnesse or loosenesse now that the times are contagious let him presently repair to a clean and warm roome and let a light fire of wood be kindled in the chimney to consume and destroy all the infectious vapours that proceed both from the air and the infected party Let the patient be presently put into a warm bed himself wrapped in a sheet and blanket having first put off his shirt that when he cometh to be dried you may not be put to the trouble of pulling of his we t shirt then give him one dragme of our Antidote dissolved in four ounces of Carduus posset and covering him with cloaths very warme all over leaving only his respiration free and putting a warm brick to the soles of his feet and another to his knees let him sweat as long as he is able or at least for the space of three or four houres and be not afraid he should faint if he hath breath enough XIX If it should happen as it doth commonly to those that are first taken by a vomiting that the patient should cast up the Antidote you must give him another dose and if he should cast this also give him a third and so continue still till he keepeth it once for he will never cast it up afterwards and though he should yet by having taken it so often some of the qualities of it will remain behind that will work their effect XX. Children that cannot or will not take the remedy must be compelled to it by powring it into their throat with an instrument called by the Greeks 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which is a kind of a spoon with a cover having a spout to put into the mouth and powre it down XXI The patient having sweated three or four hours the more the better you must give him a little more breath and begin to take off the cloaths by degrees and when you have dried him very well with warme cloths which all this while must hang by the fire with his shirt then pull away the wet sheet and blanket from under him then give him his shirt and after that drie his head and take heed by all means that any cold air should come into the room After you have dried his head sufficiently and that the party begins to cool give him to drink leasurely two ounces of our Cordial water which is of an admirable vertue in this case and also in all faintnesses surfettings and poisons This will refresh him so speedily and wonderfully that he will presently forget the tiresomnesse of his sweating XXII When he is quite cold give him to eat any thing he hath a mind too so that it be of good juice and easie digestion Let his drink be strong Beer lukewarm or some generous Claret-Wine for as we have said before this Feaver differeth from all others and whereas in others we substract meat and strong drink as much as we can we must in this allow them it being only a malignant quality in which good meat and drink cannot hurt but rather allay it as also because the patient would not be able to sweat twice a day in this manner which of necessiry he must do if he will save his life unlesse his strength be repaired with good nutriment XXIII This course of sweating twice a day must be continued for four days together or five at the most in which space of times all the pestilential poison will expire and if this be carefully done and attended there is no Plague so stubborn of any kind whatsoever but must yeild XXIV Seeing therefore that this way of cure is so easy so cheap and so quick I cannot but wonder at the impudence of many qui impune ladentes de corio humano promise the cure with a few Chymical drops Mineral Bezoart and such like trumperies and at the credulity of those that believe them XXV But because in reprehending others we our selves should not be found faulty and thought in this publick calamity to seek our own interrest by concealing what our Antidote is we do ingeniously and publickly declare that it is nothing but the Treacle of Andromachus vulgarly called Venice Treacle so much celebrated by Galen and so much authorised by the constant experience of all subsequent ages to which we have added a little of the tincture of Saffron for their sakes chiefly that have contracted the Plague by a fright and whom we have alwayes found the hardest to be cured because of the sudden and deep impression it maketh upon the vitals Saffron being one of the most noble Cordials and of the most quick and sudden dilatation XXVI This noble remedy called Venice-Treacle being taken in