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water_n	ounce_n	quantity_n	syrup_n	3,271	5	11.2634	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A69170	Salomons pest-house, or tovvre-royall Nevvly re-edified and prepared to preserue Londoners with their families, and others, from the doubted deluge of the plague. Item, a laudable exercise for those that are departed, or shall depart out of the city into the country, to spend their time till they returne. A handfull of holy meditations vsefull and requisite for Gods people ... By the reuerend, learned, and godly diuine I.D. preacher of Gods word. Whereunto is added Mr Hollands admonition, and Mr Phaers prescription for bodily physicke. Also, London looke-backe: a description or representation of the great and memorable mortality an. 1625. in heroicke matchlesse lines, by A.H. of Tr. Colledge in Cambridge.	I. D., preacher of Gods word.; Holland, Henry, 1583-1650? Spirituall preservatives against the pestilence.; Houssemaine, Nicolas de, d. 1523. Régime contre la peste.; Holland, Abraham, d. 1626. London looke-backe.; Phayer, Thomas, 1510?-1560.	1630 (1630)	STC 6176; ESTC S117096	52,379	80

hast vsed all the meanes before shewed for thy spirituall comfort and helpe thou must neglect no ordinance nor helpe of God in nature both for thy cure and preseruation The wicked indeed inuert and peruert this order as did Asa and therefore no meruell if they receiue often a curse insteed of a blessing for if Physicke giue them health of body their soules notwithstanding are neuer cured or made any better by their chasticements but they daily gather more strength to commit sinne with boldnesse LEt the Rich seeke for the godly wise and learned Physician and take heede of wicked ignorant bold Empyricks which kill many men and yet feare nothing because they be not called to their accompts according to good Lawes for this cause prouided And let the poorer sort with good aduise and counsell if they can haue any vse Maister Phaers medicines in his short but learned Treatise of the Pestilence which hee wrote of purpose for the benefit and comfort of the Poore I haue added a few medicines of Master Phaers which may serue at a need and by Gods grace do some good when better counsell is wanting A most precious Electuary against the Pestilence for the Rich. TAke Cynamome elect one ounce Terra sigillata 6. drams fine Mirre 3. drams Vnicorns horne one dram the seed and rind of Citron roots of Dyptany Burnet Tormentille Zedoary red Corall ana drams two yellow Saunders 4. scruples red Saunders 2. scruples White bene and red Flowers of Marygolds ana one dram Iuory raced Scabious Betonice Offininis tunicae appellatae seed of Basile the bone of a Stags Heart Saffron ana two scruples make a fine powder and ad vnto it of Bole Armoniake Preparate two ounces White sugar three pound and with a Syrup of Acetociate Citri make a goodly Electuary and keepe it in a Glasse Or this forme with lesse cost and quantitie Take of the roots of Dictamu tormentil bole armonick Prepared that is washed with water of Sabious Terra figillata ana 6. drams of the root of Gentian and of the root of butter-burre of Betonie called in the shops Betonice tunica Ana 2. scruples red Sanders one scruple Iuerie raced the barke of Citron of red Corall of the bone of a Stags heart of tho root of Zedoary ana halfe a dram of most pure Pearles of both kinds of been ana 2. scruples Fragmentorum quinque lapidum pretiosorum ana one scruple Amber good Vnicornes horne ana halfe a scruple of Gold and Siluer leaues three of each mingle all these and make a fine powder If the Pestilence come with great excesse of heat take one dram and drinke it vp in Rose water and Vineger but if you feele it cold take it in a draught of White Wine and couer you with clothes so that you may sweat as long as is possible for without doubt it is a present remedie as I my selfe haue oftentimes proued For the Poore the best I find is this TAke the root called Petasites in Latine in English Butter-burre growing by the water-side drie it and make fine powder of it and giue it the sicke If the Pestilence commeth with heat take 3. drams of it in Rose-water and Vineger but if it come with a cold giue it in a draught of Wine and cause the partie to sweat as long as he or she can well endure it If a Botch appeare to ripen it TAke Mallowes and the roots of Holyhoke and Onions as much as shall suffice wash them and seeth them in water and afterward bray them in a Morter with powder of Linseed Fenugreke and a good quantitie of Swines grease fresh laying on the plaister euery day once To breake the Botch SOme lay on it a Plaister made of Figges which was King Hezekiahs plaster and therefore not to be despised adde sowre leauen and Raisins without Kernels brayed and incorporate altogether in oyle of Camomill To mundifie the Botch AFterward mundifie thesore with a salue made of yelkes of Egges fine Barley flower and a little Honey or oyle of Roses For incarnation of the place LAst of all for the perfect incarnation Take the iuice of Daises and with a little waxe make a soft ointment and vse it or you may lay thereto an other salue incarnatiue as yee are wont to doe in other cleane sores LONDON LOOK-BACKE The Description of the late great memorable and prodigious Plague 1625. ⸪ GOod God! what poison lurkd in that first fruict Whose surfet left vs wretches prostitute To such a world of sorrow Not confin'd Onely to teare and cruciate the minde With sad remembrance of the blisse wherein We might haue liu'd but see the cruell Sin Spares not our soules weake houses both doth spred From viler parts vnto the nobler head A thousand Maladies which now alas Through each small In-let of the Bodie passe Remorslesse Enemies and batter downe The clayie bulwarkes of our Mud-wall'd towne Our throat is like that vast breach which doth bring In like the Troian Horse dire surfetting When in the Stomach like the Market-place The foes let loose dare spred themselues and trace Through all the Citie some are ready first To breake the Sluces which doe raging burst And drowne low buildings some with flaming brands Fire holy Temples some with Swords in hands Sharpe-pointed-Iauelins Malls and poisonous darts Make Massacres through all the trembling parts Of the distressed Fabricke no controll Can barre'em but they will assault the Soule It selfe almost while each small-breathing Pore Betrayes vnto the foe a Posterne Dore To enter in at euery crawling veyne Affords him harbour and doth Entertaine The bloudie Enemie each Muscle Nerue And Filme makes him a Fortresse to preserue His longer Durance till the guest at last With ruine payes his Host for all that 's past How many such foes thinke you secret lye When hundreds of them ambush in one Eye Which is the Lanthorne and the Watch and Light Keepes Centurie for all the Bodies Night As soone may I exactly number all The fainting leaues that in an Autumne fall The Creatures of the Summer or the Store Of wilder insects which old Nilus shore Each yeare produceth as with Iudgement show How many fierce and bold diseases flow Vpon this wretched Carkasse when each yeare New troupes of raging Feuers domineere That know no name Each boy can nigh expresse Diseases now to Pose Hippocrates Happy that age of gold not onely cause It had no vice and so no need of Lawes When Nature was their Solon and the want Of Knowledge to doe ill did make them Ignorant Of the Redresse not bless'd alone in this Although the ayre and earth increas'd their blisse But that an able Bodie was combin'd In a sweet friendship with a harmelesse mind They knew no Physicke though their drugs did grow Then in full vertue able to bestow Health on this age because they Knew not how To get those Sicknesses which men Know now The Ague with a hundred names the Aches More than the