A defensatiue against the plague contayning two partes or treatises: the first, shewing the meanes how to preserue vs from the dangerous contagion thereof: the second, how to cure those that are infected therewith. Whereunto is annexed a short treatise of the small poxe: shewing how to gouerne and helpe those that are infected therewith. Published for the loue and benefit of his countrie by Simon Kellwaye Gentleman.

A DEFENSATIVE against the Plague : Contayning two partes or treatises : the first , shewing the meanes how to preserue vs from the dangerous contagion thereof : the second , how to cure those that are infected therewith .

Whereunto is annexed a short treatise of the small Poxe : Shewing how to gouerne and helpe those that are infected therewith .

Published for the loue and benefit of his Countrie by Simon Kellwaye Gentleman .

Ecclesiasticus . cap. 38.

God hath created meddesens of the earth , and he that is wise will not contemne them .

AT LONDON , Printed by Iohn Windet , dwelling neere Powles Wharfe at the Signe of the Crossekeyes , and are there to be soulde . 1593.

❧ To the right Honorable , Robert Deuorax , Earle of Essex and Ewe , Vicount of Hereforde , Lord Ferrer of Chartley , Borcher , and Louayne , Master of the Queenes Maiesties Horse , Knight of the noble order of the Garter , and one of her Maiesties Honorable priuie Counsell , your Honors dutifull and louing seruaunt Simon Kellwaye , wisheth a long and happie life , with encrease of honor and vertue .

PLato ( Right Honorable ) learnedly , ( I might say Deuinely ) wrote , that men were not borne ( only ) for them selues , but for their Countrie , their parents , and friendes . The Stoikes in his time held , that all thinges that were created , had their being for mans vse . Men ( alone ) were begotten , to be mutuall helps each to other . The Romanes when their estate most florished , accompted him amongst the number of the infortunate , that during his life did not manifest ( in some one publique benefite or other ) his affection and thankefull heart , to the place wherein he first breathed , insomuch as Marcus Otho the Emperour , and Marcus Curtius a Romane Knight , aswell to free them selues from the mallconceiued opinion of the people , as to make knowne to the world , that they were their countries deuoted friends and welwillers , willingly and voluntarily thrust them selues into ineuitable dangers , in which they offred the sacrifice of their liues for the safetie of their Countrie , and finished their sorowfull tragedies with the generall applause and admiration of all men . If these Heathens ( hauing none but nature for their guide ) proceeded so farre in such exceeding loue and zeale towards their Countrie , as they preferred the tranquillitie and peace thereof , before their priuat commodities , liberties , and liues , how iustly may they condemne vs ( that challenge the name of Christians ) since our good actions and endeuors want waight to ballance downe theirs . But it is no maruell , for in this declining and dotage of the world , the most part of men are prone to follow their owne preferments , delighting in selfe-loue , and greedely snatching at the toppe of fickle fortunes wheele , ( wherein the worlds summum bonum is fixt ) which with the least touch ouerturnes , laying the heedles climer in the dust , as they haue greater regard and respect vnto their priuate proffit and aduancement ( be it neuer so worthlesse ) wherein they fondly distrust the prouidence of God , then to the good of their countrie ( how necessarily soeuer it require their helpe ) wherein they shewe their neglect of dutie , and stayne them selues with the filth of ingratitude , then which nothing ( in a reasonable creature ) can be more faultie , for creatures vnreasonable naturally abhorre it . The consideration whereof , hath animated me ( amongst many thousands the vnworthiest ) in this dangerous time of sicknesse ( not vnlikely to proue more dangerous , the worst season of the yeare approching ) wherein God hath alreadie drawne his sword against vs , and stricken some fewe , and except we cause him by our speedie repentance to sheath it , he ( no doubt ) hath determined to strike vs at the quicke , how fearefully the wrath of God consumes , if his indignation be once kindled , we all know : but who shal be able to abide it ? let vs therefore that haue not yet felt his furie , become wise by the view of others miseries , the burnt child shuns the fire , but we ( farre more foolish then children ) cast our selues headlong into the flame , notwithstanding we see the ashes of our friendes burnt before vs . To publish for the benefit of al peopl that list to read it , and put it in practise , a treatise contayning a method to preserue vs from the Plague , as also how to order , gouerne , and cure those that are infected therewith : Collected out of the authorities of the most excellents , both former and later writers , and for the greatest part thereof obserued , and tried by mine owne experience : this being the first publicke bud that hath sprung of my labours , and the orphant of my studies , I present vnto your Lordship as a pledge of my zeale and humble dutie towards you , and your honorable and matchlesse vertues , deriued in part from your noble Father , but more plentifully inriched with your inuincible minde , and peerelesse indeuors , wherein you manifest to the eye of the world , the true Idea of perfect nobilitie , leaue to succeeding posteritie , a memorable remembrance of your neuer dying fame , and giue encouragement to all noble mindes , to imitate ( though vnable to match your honorable resolutions . ) If your Lordship deigne to patronize my indeuors , ( farre vnworthie so honorable a Patron ) I shall be securely protected from the venemous teeth of all carpers , beare ( with ease ) the burden of their reproches , waieng as light as winde : and with a fauorable aspect from you , ( as from the worlds bright eye ) disperse all the foggie mistes of their false conceiued thoughts . My labours want not their reward , if they winne your good word , nor my mind his desire , if you vouchsafe to fauour . Thus wishing your Lordship as many happie yeares as vertues , and no fewer vertues then the firmament affords lightes , commending my labors to your honorable protection , I humblie take my leaue , this 25. of March . 1592.

Your Honors most dutifull Seruant to commaunde , Simon Kellwaye .

To the frendly Reader .

WHen I considered with my selfe ( gentle Reader ) the great calamitie , miserie , and most distressed state of our Countrie , on which it hath pleased God to inflict the heauie scourge of his wrath , by imposing on them that poysonous infection the plague , I therefore ( as one partaker of their griefe and sorrowe ) seeing also the same contagion so generally dispersed throughout this land , and not finding anye english author that hath to my content written the meanes how to preserue and keepe vs from the contagion thereof , haue thought it good to publish this small treatise vnder the title and name of a defensatiue against the Plague . Which worke I haue collected and drawne from sundrie both auncient and later writers , the which being shaddowed vnder the calme shroude of auncient consent , and strengthned with the abundant sappe of late experience ( as well mine owne , as others ) I heere present the same , not so exquisitely plotted with so orderly a method , or so finely pollished with so filed an eloquence , thereby to breede a delight to the learned , which would be a loathing to the vnlearned , I haue therefore thought best to disclose it , euen in the playnest manner I could deuise , whereby the simpler sort might reape the commoditie thereof , whose safetie I tender , and for whose sakes I haue taken this paynes . I doubt not but that some ( Aristarchus or other ) whose filthie stomackes being inflamde with malice , will attempt to nip off the crop of my future hope , obiecting the barrennes of my soyle wherein it first tooke roote , and my want of skill in trimming and proyning it as it would require to be such , as small hope of frute is to be loked for to proceede thereof , but high disdaine willeth no man good , I giue them leaue to glose as they list , knowing it most friuolous to afford vnto such an answere , seeing in stead of reason there commeth nothing from them but either a disdainefull smile , or a scornefull mocke ( but it skilleth not ) sith many of my ancients haue tasted of their mallice , whome I may iustly compare to Antiphilos , that peerelesse pickthancke . Only vppon this hope do I rest , that as in good will and loue I haue done it , so the well disposed will censure it in the best sort , and where defects are ( as I doubt not of many ) they will in friendly and charitable manner correct and amend the same , which may occasion me to take some further paynes heereafter . Farewell . From my house this 25. of March . 1593.

Thine in all friendly loue , S. K.

George Baker , in commendation of the Author .

AMongst all the heynous offences that euer were , none were in time past so sharply punished , nor more strayter lawes made , then for ingratitude : and in my iudgement nothing can more grieue an honest mind ( especially where good is deserued ) then to be recompenst with euill . I doo not thinke that this booke can passe cleane away with the good liking of euery one , but that it will drinke of the same enuious cup , that other famous workes heretofore haue done . I could rehearse a number that haue complayned thereof , whose eternall fame shall neuer be extinguished . The Author of this treatise , his good and zelous intent , and sufficiencie in his profession , I knowe to be such , as deserueth well . His willing and godly mind to do his countrie good , ( not only this booke ) but also many people both rich and poore that haue already receyued helpe at his hands , can and will testifie the same . This which he hath written is no new inuention , but the ground thereof allowed , both of auntient and later writers : and besides he hath considered that in euery place a good Phisition is not to be gotten at all times , so that the partie infected may be dead before any such helpe can be had , ( yea ) and the most part of the best of them will not hazard them selues in so dangerous an enterprise : he considering the same , hath heere taught the most easye and approued medicines , with the whole order of the cure , not only for such as are infected , but also haue to preserue them that are sounde . What doth he deserue that thus hath done , let the better sort iudge : for the rest , I thinke if either they haue the feare of God , any sparke of honestie , or iudgement in any thing , they will for shame hold their peace , least their ignorance and hatred bewray their folly , and so deserue the same punishment which the wisest sort haue alreadie set downe , which I hope none will so wilfully hazard to incurre . Now , considering his zealous intent , it is the part of euery good minde , to encourage him in so godly , and good an enterprise , whereby others may be animated to do the like : and therefore considering the goodnes of the matter , and necessitie of the cause , the whole common wealth is to embrace him , who lookes but only for a thankefull acceptance in lewe of his trauell , which is the least may be yelded him . Farewell . From my chamber at the Court this 6. of Aprill . 1593.

G. Baker .

The Author to the Reader .

FOr that there are diuers Receats in this booke which are written in Latin , because in some of them many things which enter therein can not be brought into an apt english phrase , neither are they to be had , but only at the Apottycaries , and because their quantities are written according to the Latin order , I haue heere set downe what the signification of euery waight and measure doth meane .

A handfull is written thus M.j. Halfe a handfull thus M. ss. A little handfull thus P.j. A Scruple thus ℈ .j. A Dramme thus ʒ . j . An ounce thus ℥ .j. Halfe an ounce , or halfe a dramme thus ℥ . ss. — ʒ . ss. An ounce and halfe , thus ℥ . j.ss. A Grayne thus G.j. The number of any thing , thus no. j. &c. A Pound , is thus l.j. So much as shall suffice , thus q. 5. ( Ana ) is of either of them . xx . Graynes make a Scruple . iij. Scruples , make a Dramme . viij . Drammes , make an ounce . xij . Ounces , make a pound .

To the Reader .

ANd for such faultes as by the Printer are omitted , let me craue this fauour at thy handes , that before thou enter to reade this Booke , to bestow a little paines with thy pen to correct them , so shalt thou make the true meaning and sense of the matter the more playne vnto thee , and such faultes as by a scarborrowd ouer-reading I haue found , as also the correcting of the same , I haue here following specified .

Farwell , from my house at Kingsmill in Deuon the 8. of Aprill 1593. Thine in all friendly loue , S. K.

Faultes escaped in Printing .

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A defensatiue against the plague : The first treatise .

Cap. 1. What the plague is .

THe auncient physitions in times past haue greatly doubted what the essential cause of this disease , which wee commonly call the plague , or pestilence should be : yet all do agree that it is a pernitious and contagious feauer , and reckned to be one of the number of those which are called Epidemia , chiefely proceéding of adusted and melancholike bloud , which may be easily perceiued by the extreame heate and inflammation which inwardly they doe feéle that are infected therewith , first assalting the harte , and astonishing the vitall spirites , as also by the exterior Carbunkles and botches which it produceth : whose malignitie is such , both in yong and olde , rich and poore , noble and ignoble , that vsing all the meanes which by art can , or may be deuised , yet in some it will in no sorte giue place , vntill it hath by death conquered the partie infected therewith .

Cap. 2. Cause of the plague .

THere are diuers causes whereof this disease may proceede , as sundrie writers do aledge , as by ouer great and vnnaturall heate and drieth , by great rayne and inundatyons of waters , or by great store or rotten and stincking bodies , both of men and beastes , lying vppon the face of the earth vnburied , as in the time of warres hath bene seene , which doth so corrupt the ayre , as that thereby our Corne , Fruites , Herbes , and waters which we dayly vse for our foode and sustenaunce , are infected : also it may come by some stincking doonghils , filthie and standing pooles of water , and vnsauery smelles which are neere the places where we dwell , or by thrusting a great companie of people into a close narrow , or straight roome , as most commonly we see in shippes , common Gayles , and in narrow and close lanes and streetes , where many people doe dwell together , and the places not orderly kept cleane and sweete . But most commonly in this our time it is dispersed amongst vs , by accompaning our selues with such as either haue , or lately haue had the disease them selues ; or at least haue beene conuersant with such as haue bene infected therewith . But for the most parte it doth come by receauing into our custody some clothes , or such like things that haue bene vsed about some infected body , wherin the infection may lye hidden a long time : as hath bene too too often experimented with repentance too late in many places . It may also come by dogs , cats , pigs , and weasells which are prone and apt to receiue and carrie the infection from place to place . But howsoeuer it doth come , let vs assure our selues that it is a iust punishment of God layde vpon vs , for our manyfold sinnes and transgressions against his diuine Maiestie : for as Seneca sayth , quicquid patimur ab alto venit , what crosses or afflictions soeuer wee suffer it commeth from the Lord , either for a triall of our faith , or a punishment for our sinnes . Wherefore ; to distinguish any farther thereof , I thinke it needlesse : for my entent is in briefe sort so exactly as I can ; to shew the meanes how to preuent the same , as also how to cure it when we are infected . But before I enter to intreate thereof , I thinke it not a misse to shew what forewarninges and tokens are giuen vs before hand of the comming thereof , thereby the better to preuent the same by prayer and repentance .

Cap. 3. Warninges of the plague to come .

AVicen a noble Physition saith , that when wee see the naturall course of the ayre , and seasons of the yeere to be altered , as when the springe time is colde clowdie , and drie , the haruest time stormie and tempestuous , the morninges and euenings , to be very colde , and at noone extreame hote , these doe foreshew the plague to come . Also , Firie impressions . when wee see firie impressions in the firmament , specially in the ende of sommer , as commets and such like , and that in the beginning of haruest we see great store of little frogs , Frogs and Toades . red toades and myse on the earth abounding extraordinarily : or when in sommer we see great store of toades creeping on the earth hauing long tayles , of an asheye colour on their backes , and their bellies spotted and of diuers colours , and when we see great store of gnattes to swymme on the waters , Gnattes . or flying in great companyes together , or when our trees and Herbes doe abounde with caterpillers , spiders , Trees and Herbes . moathes and such like , which deuoure the leaues on the trées , and herbes on the earth , it sheweth the ayre to be corrupt , and the plague shortly after to follow . Also , Beastes . by the beastes of the fielde , we may perceiue it , ( especially sheepe ) which will goe mourning with their heades hanging downe towarde the ground , and dyuers of them dying without any manyfest cause knowne vnto vs . Children . Also when we see yonge Children flocke them selues together in companyes , and then will faine some one of their company to be dead amongst them and so will solemnize the buriall in a mournefull sorte , this is a token which hath bene well obserued in our age , to foreshew great mortallitie at hand . Ryuers . Also , when wee see ryuers of water to ouerflow without any manyfest cause , or soddenly vanish away and become drie ; and when cleare wellspringes doe sodenly become foule and trobled . Also , when the small Poxe doth generally abounde , Poxe . both in yong and olde people , all these doe foreshew the plague to come .

Cap 4. Sheweth how to preuent the plague .

THere are three principall meanes , how to preuent this contagious disease : the first and chiefest is to acknowledge our manifolde sinnes and wickednes vnto almightie God our heauenly father , with a hartie repentance and amendment of our former sinnes committed against his diuine maiestie .

The second meanes is to flye far off from the place infected , and as Rondoletius sayth , not ouer hastely to returne there againe , for feare of an afterclap : which saying is confirmed by Valetius , in these wordes , non enim morietur in bello , qui non est in illo : and the farther from it , the safer shall we be , yet were it a very vncharitable course , that all which are of abillytie should so doe : for then howe should the poore be relieued , and good orders obserued : but for children it were best to send them far off from the place , because their bodyes are most apt to receiue the infection , as also for that they cannot so continually vse antidotes and preseruatiues , which by their great heate may indanger them almost so much as the disease it selfe .

The third meanes consisteth chiefly in three poyntes , which are these : Order , Diet , and Physicall helpes . For the first you must haue a care that your houses bee kept cleane and sweete , not suffering any foule & filthy clothes or stincking thinges to remaine in , nor about the same : and in sommer season to decke your windowes , and strawe your floores with sweete and holsome herbes , floures and leaues as Mintes , Balme , Pennyriall , Lauender , Time , Marioram , red Roses , Carnations , Gellefloures and such like , for your windowes , your floores to be strawed with greene Rushes , and Mynts , Oken and willow leaues , Uine leaues and such like : your windowes which stand towarde the North and Easte , doe you alwaies keepe open in the daye time , ( if the aire be cleare and that no infected and vnsauery smell be neere the same ) as fogs , doonghils , and such like , and euery morning before you open either your doores or windowes , as also in the euening when you goe to bed , cause a good fire to be made in your chamber , and burn some Odoriferous or sweete perfume in the middest thereof , as hereafter I will shew you , or in steéde therof , some Iuniper , Herbes good for a perfume . Frankincense , Baye leaues , Rosmary , Lauender , Marioram , or such like , which you must alwayes haue dried in a reddynes , and so in the fume or smoke thereof , to breath and perfume the clothes which you are to weare .

A good perfume in sommer season .

℞ Rose water and vineger , of either sixe sponefulls . Rindes of sowre Citrons & lymons Baye leaues of either : the waight of two pence which is j. ℈ . Camphire the waight of iij. pence which is halfe . ʒ .

The herbes and rindes must be dried , and put altogether in a perfuming panne , or in steede thereof a pewter dish set on a chafer of coles , will serue the turne .

An other good perfume in winter .

℞ Red roses Marioram & Myrtles of either a little handfull . Callamint Iuneper berries of either one ʒ . which is the waight of vij . pence . Ladanum of either one ʒ . which is the waight of vij . pence . Beniamin of either one ʒ . which is the waight of vij . pence . Frankincense of either one ʒ . which is the waight of vij . pence . of either one ʒ . which is the waight of vij . pence .

The herbes , berries , and roses , being dried , must bee made in grose pouder , as also the gummes , and so mixed together , and when yeé lyst , cast some parte thereof on a chafer of coles , and receaue the fume thereof .

Cap. 5.

NOw hauing receiued the fume as aforesayde , before you goe foorth of your chamber , eate some Cordiall electuary or preseruatiue , as hereafter you shall finde choyse , which I haue alwaies vsed with good and happie succes , after taking of the Cordiall , wash your face and handes with cleane water , wherein you must put a little vineger , and then if you liste , you may breake your fast with some good bread and butter , and in winter season a poycht Egge is good eaten with some vinegar : and for plethoricke and melancholicke bodies , it were good to drinke a drafte of wormewood wine , Wormwood wine commended . in the morning fasting , because it resisteth putrefaction in the plethoricke , and purgeth bilous matter in the melancholike .

An excellent good preseruatiue ; which I haue alwayes vsed with good successe .

℞ Conserue of Roses and borrage flowres of either two ounces . Minardus , Mitridat , Andromachus triacle of either halfe an ounce . Dioscordium , two drammes . Dialkermes , one dramme . Pouder of the seede of Citrons pilled one dramme . Syrop of lymons and sower Citrons of either halfe an ounce .

Compounde all these together , in the forme of an opiat you may eate hereof euery morning , the quantitie of three beanes , and drinke a drafte of Rennish wine , beére or ale , after it : but for Children and such as are of tender yeeres , so much as a beane thereof is sufficient , and giue them only beére or ale after it : the taking hereof euery seconde or third day will suffice , if you goe not into any suspected company .

An other excellent good preseruatiue .

℞ Kernels of walenuts and figs , of either foure ounces . Leaues of rue one ounce and halfe . Tormentill rootes iiij . drammes . Rinde of sowre Citrons one dramme . Right Bolarmoniake vj. drammes . Fine Mirre ij . scruples . Saffron one scruple . Salte halfe a dramme . Syrop of Citrons and Lymons , iiij . ounces .

The herbes , rootes , and rindes must be dried , the nuttes must be blanched , and the bolarmonyake must bee made in fine pouder , and then washt in the water of scabios , and dried againe , you must pound the figges and walenuts in a stone morter seuerally by them selues very small , all the rest must be made in fine pouder , and so mixe them altogether in the morter , and then adde therto Syrop by little and little , and so incorporat them all together : you may giue this in the same quantytie , and in like sorte as the other before .

An other very good

℞ Of the confection a foresaid made with Nuttes , iiij . ounces . Minardus mitridat , iiij . drammes . Andromachus triacle , ij . drammes . Fine terrae Sigillatae , iiij . scruples . Syrop of Lymons , one ounce .

Compounde all these together in the morter , as the other before , you may giue hereof the waight of a groate or vipence , euery second or third day , & drinke a draft of Rennish or White wine after it in winter season , but in the heate of the yeere , Sorrel water is best , and in the spring Scabios or Cardus benedictus water .

Also , so much Triacle of Andromachus discription eaten euery morning as a beane , with a little conserue of Roses , is a very excellent good preseruatiue .

Valetius , doth greatly commend the taking of three or foure graines of the Bezoar stone euery morning , in a sponefull of Scabios water .

I cannot here sufficiently commend the electuary called Dioscordium , which is not onely good to resist the infection but doth also expell the venimous matter of those which are infected , being taken euery morning and euening , the quantitie of a beane , and drinke a draft of Rennish or White wine after it , in winter season , but in sommer a draft of beére or ale is best .

In strong and rusticall bodies , Garlicke good in rusticall bodies . and such as are daylie labourers , Garlike onely eaten in the morning with some Butter and Salt at breakfast , drinking a cup of beére or ale after it , hath bene found to bee very good : which is greatly commended by Gallen , who calleth it the poore mans Triacle : but in the sanguin , daintie , and idle bodies , it may not be vsed because it ouer heateth the bloud , causeth headach , and vniuersally inflameth the whole body .

Cap. 6.

NOw when you haue taken any of the foresaide preseruatiues , it were good and necessary to weare vpon the region of the harte , some sweéte bag or quilt that hath power to resist venem , and also to carry in your hand some sweéte Pomander , Nodule , or Nosegaie , that will comforte the hart , resist venem , and recreate the vitall spirites , as here following is specified and set downe .

An excellent quilt or bag .

℞ Arsenike cristaline , one ounce . Diamargaritum frigidum , ij . scruples . Diambrae , one scruple .

You must grinde the Arsenike in smal pouder , and then with some of the infusion of Gum Draggagant in Rose water , you must make a paste , then spread it on a cloth which must be sixe ynches long , and fiue ynches broad , and spread it thicke : then couer it with an other cloth and so quilt it together , which being done , fasten it in an other bag of Crimson taffetie or Sarsnet , and so weare it against the harte al the day time , but at night leaue it off : and here you must take heéd , that when you sweat , you doe take it away , for otherwise it will cause the skinne to amper a little . There are some writers which doe vtterly forbid the wearing of Arsenike : but thus much I can say ; that I haue giuen this bag vnto diuers to weare , with most happie and good successe , for neuer did I yet know any one that hath worne this bag , and vsed any of the electuaries aforesaid , that hath bene infected with the plague , but for any inconuenience or accident that hath hapned thereby , I neuer found any hetherto , other then the ampring of the skinne as aforesayd .

An other bag .

℞ Ir●ios , halfe an ounce . Calamus aromat Ciperus , of either one dramme and halfe . Storax , Calam , roote of Angelica of either three drammes . Cloues , Mace , of either one dramme . Red roses dried , iij. drammes . Pellemountaine , Peniriall , Callamint , Elder floures , of either one dramme and halfe . Nutmegs , Cinamon , Yellow sanders , of either one dramme . Nardi Italicae , one dramme . Amber greece , and muske , of either sixe graines .

You must pound all these in pouder and then quilt them in a bag of Crymson taffatie as aforesaide .

A Pomander good in the sommer time .

℞ The rind of Citrons , Red Roses , Nenuphare roses , Yellow sanders , of either halfe a dramme . ℞ Storax liquid , Beniamin , of either one dramme . ℞ Myrre , two scruples . ℞ Ladanum , one dramme and halfe . ℞ Muske and amber , of either sixe graines .

Pouder all that is to be poudred , and then worke them together in a whote morter , with a whote pestell , adding vnto it in the working some of the Musselage of draggagant dissolued in sweéte rose Water , or rose Uinegar , and so make your Pomander .

An other good one for the winter time .

℞ Storax liquid , Beniamin , Storax calamint , Ladanum , and Myrre of either halfe a dramme . Cloues , one scruple . Nutmegs , Cinamon , of either halfe a scruple . Red roses , Yellow sanders , Lignum alloes and Irrios . of either halfe a dramme . Calamus aromaticus , rind of a Citron . of either foure graines . Amber greece , Muske , and siuet , of either sixe graines .

You may make vp this , as the other before , with some Musselage of the infusion of Gum draggagant , infused in Rose water .

A good Nodule for the sommer season . ℞ Floures of Violets red Roses and Nenuphare . of either one dramme . ℞ Red , White , and Yellow sanders of either halfe a dramme . ℞ Camphire , xij . graines ,

Cause all these to be beaten in grose pouder , then knit them all together in a peece of Taffetie and when you will vse it , then wet it in rose Water and a little Uinegar , and so smell to it .

Another Nodule for the winter season .

℞ The dried leaues of Mintes , Marioram , Tyme , Peniriall , Lauender , Pellemountaine , and Balme , of either a little handfull . Nutmegs , Cloues , Cinamon , Angelica rootes , Lignum alloes , of either one dramme . Saffron , two scruples .

Cause all these to be infused in rose Water and Uinegar , one whole night , then wet a spunge in the liquor thereof and knit it in a peece of Taffatie , or your handcarchiefe , whereunto you must smell often times .

A Nosgaie for the same purpose .

℞ Herbe grace , three branches . Rosmarie , Marioram , Myntes , and Time , of either one branch . Red rose buddes and Carnations , of either three or foure .

Make your Nosegay herewith , then sprinkle him ouer with rose Water , and some rose Uinegar , and smell often vnto it . Also , when you suspecte to goe into any dangerous or infected company doe you alwaies carry in your mouth a peece of the roote of Angelica , the rinde of a Citron dried , or a great Cloue , which must bee first infused or stéeped one whole night in rose Water and Uinegar .

Cap. 7.

FOr that there is not a greater enimie to the health of our bodies then costiunes , both in the time of the plague and otherwise , I haue here set downe howe and by what meanes you may keépe your selfe solyble , which you must vse once in foure and twentie houres , if otherwise you haue not the bennefit of nature by custome .

A suppositorie .

Take two sponefuls of Hony and one sponefull of Baye salte , small pounded , boyle them together vntill it grow thicke , alwaies stirring it in the boyling , then take it from the fire , & if you liste you may ad one dramme of ( Ihera picra simplex ) vnto it : and so stirre them wel together , and when it is almost colde , make vp your suppositories , of what length and bignes you list : and when you minister any you must first annoynt it with butter or Sallet oyle : you may keepe these a whole yeere if you put them in Barrowes morte or grease , and so couer them vp close therein .

A good Glister .

℞ Mallowes , Mercurie , Beets , Violets , Red Fennell , of either one handfull . Seedes of fennel , Annis , Coriander , of either one dramme .

Boyle all these in a sufficient quantitie of Water , vntil halfe the water be consumed , then straine it , and keépe it in a glasse close stopt , vntill you neede , for it will keépe a whole weéke . Take of the same decoction , a pinte .

Mel rosarum , or common Honie , one sponefull . Oyle of Violets or oyle of Oliues , three ounces , Salte , one dramme , The yolke of an Egge or two .

Mixe all these together in a morter and so giue it warme in the morning , or two houres before supper : and if yeé adde vnto this one ounce of Diacatholicon it will bee the better .

Raysins laxatiue how to make them . ℞ White wine , three pintes and halfe . ℞ Senuae , halfe a pound . ℞ Fine white sugar one pound . ℞ Currantes , two poundes .

You must infuse the Senue in the wine , in a pot close stopt , and let it stand in a warme place , foure and twentie houres , then straine it , and adde to the strayning the Currants being cleane pickt and washt , and lastly the Sugar , boyle all together on an easie fire , vntill the wine be consumed , hauing care that you doe alwaies stirre it about in the boyling for feare of burning , then take them from the fire , and put them vp into a cleane galley pot , you may eate one sponefull or two of them a little before dinner , at any time .

A good Oyntment to keepe on Sollible . The gaule of an Oxe , Oyle of violets , of either one ounce . Sheepes tallow , sixe drammes .

Boyle them together on a soft fire vntill they be incorporated , then take it from the fire , and adde there to .

Alloes cicatrine , one ounce . Baye salt , halfe an ounce .

The Alloes and Salte must be both made in fine pouder , before you put them into the Oyle , then stirre them together vntill it be colde , and when you are disposed to haue a stoole , then annoynt your fundment therewith , both within side and without , and if you annoynt your nauell therewith , it will worke the better .

Good pils to keepe one Sollible and doe also resist the pestilence .

℞ Alloes , Cicatrine , one ounce . Chosen Myrre , three drammes . Saffron , one dramme and halfe . Amber greece , sixe graines . Syrop of limons or Citrons , so much as shal be sufficient , to make the masse .

You must grinde the Alloes , Myrre , and Saffron into small pouder , seuerally by them selues , then incorporat them altogether , with the syrope : you may giue halfe a dramme or two scrupls therof , in the euening halfe an houre before supper twise or thrise in a weéke : Rases , would haue you to take halfe a dramme or two scruples of these Pilles euery day , without vsing any other preseruatiue at all , and he hath great reason so to esteéme of them , for Galen , Auicen , and all auncient writers in Physicke , doe holde opinion that Alloes doth not only comfort but purge the stomake from all rawe and chollericke humors , and doth also purge and open the vaynes called Miserayice , and resisteth putrefaction : Myrre doth altogether resist , neither will it suffer putrefaction in the stomacke : Saffron , doth comfort the hart , and hath also a proprietie in it to carry any medicine that is giuen there with vnto the hart , but to conclude , these Pilles will purge all superfluous humors in the stomacke , and principall members : and preserueth the bloud from corruption .

Cap. 8.

I Must here giue you to vnderstand that the infection doth often times lye hidden with in vs , with out any manifest signe or knowledge thereof at the first , and therefore were it good for sanguine bodies and such as doe abound with bloud , in the sommer season to drawe sixe or eight ounces of bloud out of the basillica vaine in the right arme , which is a good meanes to preuent a further danger , ( as Auicen witnesseth ) but for full and plethoricke bodies , it were best to purge them selues once in seuen or eight daies with some easie and gentle purgation , as hereafter I will shewe you : but for leane and spare bodies ; once in fourtene dayes wil be enough at most : for wisely sayth Rondoletius , that it is not only the vennemous and contagious ayre which we receiue that doth kill vs , but it is the present communicating of that contagion , with some superfluous humors in our bodies , as in his treatise De peste appeareth : therefore now will I shew you how to purge the body .

Pilles good to purge .

℞ Alloes Cicatrine , tenne drammes . Aggaricke , of the whitest , foure drammes . Myrre , Masticke , of either two drammes . Saffron , two scruples .

Make these in fine pouder , Flegme . then compound them together in a morter , with so much Oximell simplex , syrrop of Lymons , or of Sticados , as shal be sufficient , you may giue one dramme , or a dramme and halfe of these Pilles , halfe an houre before supper : but for a chollericke bodie , Choller . you must leaue out two drammes of the Aggaricke in making of the receipt , and in place thereof adde two drammes of Rubarbe , and for the melancholike , Mellancholye . two drammes of Epithimum and giue the same quantitie in waight .

A good purging potion .

℞ Raysins , the stones pickt out and washt , of either one ounce . Polipode of the oke : Elecampane roote dried rootes of wilde small sorell Succorie rootes cleansed . of either halfe an ounce . Leaues of Borrage , Buglos , Burnet , Scabios , Morsus diaboli , Floures of Borrage , Buglos , Rosmarie , Violets , Broome , of either a little handfull . Seedes of fennell , sowre Citrons . of either two scruples , Shauing of a harts horne , halfe a dramme .

Boyle all these in a sufficient quantity of faire water vntill halfe be consumed , then straine it . Take of the decoction aforesaide , three ounces .

Rubarbe , two drammes and halfe , Cinamon , halfe a dramme ,

Slice them both , and put them with the liquor in a close cup , and so let it stand to infuse in a warme place , twelue houres , then straine it out strongly , & adde therto one ounce of the Syrrop of mayden heare , and so drinke it warme , in the morning about sixe of the clocke , and refraine from meate , drinke and sleépe two houres after it , this is good in leane and spare bodies : you may , for a phlegmaticke body adde in the infusion one dramme of Aggaricke Trosciskated .

A purging pouder for such as cannot take Pilles . ℞ Alloes cicatrine , one ounce , ℞ Myrre , Cinamon , of either two drammes . ℞ Saffron , one scruple .

Make them all in fine pouder , and giue one dramme , in a draft of white wine .

Floures stopt , how to prouoke them .

For that weemen which haue not their naturall course on them , are most proue to receiue and take the infection , I haue here set downe good Pilles , which I haue alwaies found excellent , not onely for that purpose , but will also resist the danger of infection .

℞ Alloes cicatrine , one ounce . Rootes of Gentian Aristolochia rotunda Dittander , Saffron , , of either halfe a dramme . Rootes of garden madther , Mitridat , of either one dramme .

Cause them all to be ground in small pouder , then mixe it with the Mitridate and some syrrop of Artemesia , or mugworte , giue one dramme of these Pilles euery morning twelue dayes together , or vntill her tearmes breake .

Issues commended against the plague .

IN plethoricke and ful bodies , I haue found nothing more safer in the time of the plague , then to make them an artificiall issue , either in the legge or arme : for neuer hetherto haue I knowne any one which hath had an Issue , or Ulcer running on him , that hath bene infected with the plague . Palmarius , and Forestus ; doe both affirme it to be true and certaine , but here some ignorant people doe holde opinion , that hauing once an Issue , hee must be constrained to keépe it alwaies , which 〈◊〉 most erronious for then those which haue had Ulcers running vpon them , some sixe , ten , yea sixetene yeeres , may not be cured without some Issue to be made in some other place , but therein they deceiue than selues , for my selfe by good proofe haue often found the contrary in diuers people which I haue cured , some sixe , some ten , yea sixtene yeeres past , and yet to this day doe remaine in perfect good health without any Issues .

Cap 9. What diet we ought to keepe .

FOr our diet as Hipocrates teacheth vs , wee must haue a care not to exceéde in eating and drinking , but to keépe a meane therein , and in any case to beware of surfeting and drunkennesse , which are enimies both to the body and soule , but as we may not exceéde in eating and drinking , so to endure great hunger and thirst is most dangerous , our meate ought to be of a facile and easie digestion : partly tending to a drying qualitie : as Cockes , Capons , Hennes , Pullets , Partridge , Feasants , Quayles , Pigeons , Rabbets , Kydde , Ueale , Mutton , Birdes of the mountaines , and such like , but Beéfe , Porcke , Uenison , Hare , and Goates fleshe is to be refused , and so are all water foules as Ducke , Swanne , Goose , Widgen , Teale , and such like , because they are hard to digest , and do encrease ill bloud and naghtie Iuyce in the body : Lambs flesh , because of his exceéding moysture , Fysh . is also to bee refused , Egges in the sommer not good , but in winter tollerable : all fishes which are of a hard flesh , whether they be of the sea or fresh ryuers , are to be allowed . In fresh ryuers the Perche , Barble , Gudgin Loche , Coole , Troute , and Pyke , are good , and for sea fish , the Gilthed , Turbet , Sole , Rochet , Gurnard , Lapster , Crabbe , Praunes , Shrimpes , Whiting , and such like eaten with vinegar . There are some authors which holde opynion that fish is more better to bee eaten then flesh in the great feruent heate of the yeere , because they doe make a more colde bloud in the body then flesh : another reason is because they doe liue vnder the water , they are not infected with any contagion of the ayre , as beastes and Byrdes may be , and therfore more wholsome , but in my iudgement flesh is more wholsome , because it doth breéde a more pure and fine Iuyce in the body , then any fish whatsoeuer : your bread ought to be made of pure wheate , not too new , nor too olde , but of one dayes baking , or two at most is best , rye bread is to be eschewed , because of his great moysture : your drinke is best , beére , or ale , not too strong or newe , but the staller and clearer it is , the better : at your meales a draft or two of Clarret wine is tollerable , but in whote weather it were good to delay it with a little water , for wine doth warm the stomacke , helpe digestion , and comforte the hart

For your pottage you may take in the sommer . Parsly , Lettis , Sorrell , Endiue , Succorie . Sperage , Hop-buds , Burnet , Borrage , Buglos , Time , Myntes , Ysop , But in winter . Balme , Bittaine , Time , Marigolde , Isoppe , Marioram , Mynts and rue are good , For your sallets , take Pimpernell , Purslane , Myntes , Sorrell , Horehounde , Yong cole , Hop-buds , Sperage , Time , Tops of fennell Tarregon , Lettis , And watercresses are good .

Capers . Capers are greatly commended being preserued in Uinegar , and eaten with a little Oyle and Uinegar , and so are Oliues very good also .

For your sauce , the Iuice of a Lymon Citron or Orrenge is best , Sauce . the Iuice of Sorrell and Uineger is also good .

All rawe fruites are to be refused , except those which tend to a sowre tast , Fruites . as Pomgarnards , dammaske Prunes Pippins , red and sowre Cherries , and Walenuts , Quinches and Peares , preserued are verye good eaten after meales .

Pulse . All kinde of pulse is to be refused , as Beanes , Pease , and such like , because they encrease winde and make rawe humors and ill Iuice in the body .

Refraine from Garlike , Onyons , Leékes , Pepper , Musterd , and Rocket , because they doe ouer heate the body , make adustion of the bloud , and cause fumes to ascend into the head .

Cheése is not good because it doth engender grosse & thick humors . Milke and Cheese . Mylke is also to be refused because it doth quickly corrupt in the stomacke .

Cap. 10. Sheweth what exercise and order is to be kept .

YOu must beware of all vehement and immoderate exercise , which doth prouoke sweate , as is tennis , dancing , leaping , running , footeball , hurling , and such like : because they doe ouermuch heate the body , and open the pores of respiration , whereby the enfected ayre hath the more scope to enter our bodyes , but moderate exercise is very conuenient , Whote houses the vse of whote houses at this time , I thinke very dangerous because it doth too much open the pores .

Walke not into the open ayre in the morning , before the sonne hath had some power to cleanse and cleare the same , and in any case goe not abroad when great fogs and mystes are vpon the earth for it is dangerous : but if vrgent occasions moue you : Walking . then before you goe forth of your doores bee sure to eate some preseruatiue first , & then take some good and Odoriferous pomander , Nodule , or Nosegaye in your hand , as before is shewed you . The extreame heate of the daye is likewise to be refused to walke in , because it chafeth the bloud : as also in the euening after the sunne is set , for then vnsauery and vnwholesome Fogs arise out of the earth : and in any case if you can auoyde it come not neere any place infected , but vse to walke in the open ayre and drie grounde .

Use Venus combates moderatly , but none at all were better the best time to vse them is three or foure houres after supper , before you sleépe , and then rest vpon them .

Beware of anger , feare , and pensiuenes of the minde , for by their meanes the body is made more apt to receiue the infection .

Use pleasant and merry recreations , either with musicke , pleasant company to talke with all , or reading some good bookes .

Beware of sleéping at noone , but specially in the winter season , but in sommer , to take after dinner a nappe of halfe an houre , or an houre is tollerable in elderly bodies .

Watch not long in the euenings but two or three houres after supper is a good time to take your rest .

Cap. 11. Teacheth what orders magistrates and rulers of Citties and townes shoulde cause to be obserued .

FIrst , to command that no stincking doongh●●s be suffered neere the Cittie .

Euery euening and morning in whot weather to cause colde water to be cast in the streétes , especially where the infection is , and euery day to cause the streets to be kept cleane and sweete , and clensed from all filthie thinges which lye in the same .

And whereas the infection is entred , there to cause fires to be made in the streetes euery morning and euening , and if some frankincense , pitche , or some other sweete thing be burnt therein , it wil be much the better .

Suffer not any dogs , cattes , or pigs , to runne about the streetes , for they are very dangerous , and apt to carry the infection from place to place .

Command that the excrements and filthy things which are voyded from the infected places , be not cast into the streetes or ryuers which are dayly in vse to make drinke , or dresse meate ,

That no Chirurgions , or barbers , which vse to let bloud , doe cast the same into the streétes or ryuers .

That no vautes or preuies , be then empted , for it is a most dangerous thing .

That all Inholders , doe euery day make cleane their stables , and cause the doong and filth therein to be carryed away out of the Cittie : for by suffering it in their houses as some doe vse to doe , a whole weeke or fortnight , it doth so putrifie , that when it is remoued , there is such a stincking sauour and vnwholsome smel , as is able to enfect the whole streete where it is ,

To commande that no hempe or flare be kept in water neere the Cittie or towne , for that will cause a very dangerous and infectious sauour .

To haue a speciall care that good and wholsome victuals and Corne , be solde in the markets , and so to prouide that no want thereof be in the Cittie , and for such as haue not wherewithall to buy necessary foode , that there to extende their charitable and godly deuotion : for there is nothing that will more encrease the plague , then want & scarsitie of necessary foode .

To commande that all those which doe visit and attende the sicke , as also all those which haue the sicknes on them , and doe walke abroad : that they doe carry some thing in their handes , thereby to be knowne from other people . And here I must aduertise you of one thing more which I had almost forgotten ( which is ) that when the infection is but in fewe places , there to keépe all the people in their houses , not suffering any one of them to goe abroad , and so to prouide , that all such necessaries as they shall neéde may bee brought vnto them during the time of their visitation : A good caueat . and when it is staide , then to cause all the clothes , bedding , and other such thinges as were vsed about the sicke , to be all burnt , although at the charge of the rest of the inhabitants , you buy them all newe , for feare least the danger which may ensue thereby , doe put you to a farre greater charge and griefe : all these foresaide thinges are most dangerous , and may cause a generall infection , to the distroying of a whole Cittie , and therefore doe wish that great care be had therof .

Cap. 12. Doth shewe what you must doe when you goe to visit the sicke .

FIrst before you enter into the house , commande that a great fire be made in the chamber where the sicke lieth , and that some Odoriferous perfume be burnt in the middest of the chamber , and before you go to him , eate some Cordiall preseruatiue , and smother your clothes with some sweéte perfume , then wet your temples , eares , nose , and mouth , with Rose water & Uinegar , mixt together , then take in your mouth a péece of the roote of Angelica , the rynde of a sowre Citron , or a Cloue , prepared as before is shewed , and haue some Nosegaye , Nodule , or Pomander , appropriat , in your hand , which you must alwaies smell vnto , so may you the more boldlier performe your entent : but herewithall you must haue a speciall care , that during the time you are with the sicke , you stande not betwixt the sicke body and the fire , for that is dangerous , because that the fire of his nature draweth all vapors vnto it selfe , A good caueat for Chirurgions and Barber . but keépe you alwaies on the contrary side , so as the sicke may be betwixt you and the fire and for such as are to let any sicke infected body to bleéde , yt were good they did cause the keper of the sicke bodye , to laye open that arme or legge which is to be let bloud before he approch neere ? the reason is , for that most commonly al that are sicke in this contagious disease , are for the moste part in a sweat , and therefore soddenly to receiue the breath thereof woulde be very dangerous .

Now when you haue bene with any one so infected . Before you goe into the company of any whole and sounde people , What we must do when we haue bene with the sicke . it were necessary you doe stande by a good fire hauing all the clothes about you which you did weare when you were with the sicke , and then turne and ayre your selfe well thereby , so shall you be sure the lesse to endanger others by your company . Thus haue I as briefly as I can deuise set downe all the ordinary meanes which my selfe haue vsed , and by others knowne to be vsed , for preseruing you from this contagious and dangerous disease , which in the most part of people will suffice , but for such as dwell whereas they may haue the counsell of a learned Physition , I do wish them to take his aduise , specially for purging and letting bloud , because none can so exactly set downe in writing the perfect course thereof ( which may be vnderstoode rightly of the common sorte ) so well as he which hath the sight of the body : for that many bodyes are often times troubled with some one humor abounding more then another , which here to treat of would bee too tedious , neither can it proffit the common people , for whose sakes I haue taken this paynes : and nowe wil I shew the signes to know when one is infected therewith , as also which are the laudable signes and which are the contrary , and lastly the meanes ( by God his assistance ) how for to cure the same .

Cap. 13. Sheweth the signes of infection .

THe signes and tokens hereof are diuers , as first it is perceiued by the soddaine weakenes , loosing , & ouerthrowing of our natural strength without any manyfest cause therof going before and sometimes it doth begin with a gnawing and byting in the mouth of the stomacke , the pulse will grow weake , feble , and vnequall , with a great straightnes and heauines about the harte , as if some heauie burthen or waight were layde thereon , with shortnes of breathing , vomiting , or at least a great desire to vomit , great paine in the head : insatiable thirst , proceéding of their great interior heat : sluggishnes , and vniuersall fayntnes of all the body , with a great desire to sleépe , and an astonishment of the minde and vitall spirites : and for the most parte , they complaine of a great payne which is felte in some one place or places of their bodies , where the botch or blaine is by nature intended to be thrust forth , yet some at the first haue them appearing : and for the most part , they are taken at the first with a sharp and rigorous feauer .

Good signes .

When the botch or carbunkle commeth out in the beginning of the sicknes , with a red colour , and yellowish round about it , and that it doth quickly come to maturation , the feauer to cease , and the partie findeth himselfe eased of his griefe , and quickned in his spirites , these are good and laudable signes of recouer .

Euill signes .

When the botch at the first commeth out blackish , or blacke in colour , also when the botch is opened , the flesh within doth looke blewe , and that then there appeare not any matter or quitture in the 〈◊〉 , but as it were a spume or froth issuing out thereof , are ill and deadly signes .

When the botch waxeth so hard that by no meanes it will come to suppuration , but resisteth whatsoeuer is done vnto it for the farthering thereof , and so returneth in againe into the inwarde partes soddenly , is a token of soddaine death at hand , and so is it yf either before or after it is broken it looke of a blewish colour , or of diuers colours like the raynbow round about it .

Carbunckle . When the carbunckle or blaine doth soddenly drye vp , as if it were scorcht with the fire , and that the place rounde about it doth shew to be of a wannish blew colour , is a deadly signe , if in the skinne appeare greéne or blacke spottes , the excrements of dyuers colours with wormes in it , either dead or liuing , hauing a vile stincking sauour , and spitteth stinking and bloudy matter , doth betoken death .

When the sicke complaines of great and extreame heat in the inward partes , and yet colde outwardly , the eyes staring or weéping , the face terrible , the sayde excrements , or vrin passing awaye and the partie not knowing thereof , are euill signes .

When in the fourth or seuenth day , they are taken with a frensie or doe fall into an extreame bleéding at the nose , or haue a great flyre , with a continuall vomitting , or a desire to vomit and doe it not , extreame paine at the hart , watchfulnes , and the strength cleane gone , are deadly signes .

When the partie being very sicke , Infallible signes of death yet saith he feéleth him selfe well , his eyes sunke deépe into his head , and full of teares , when he seémes all thinges doth stincke , his nayles looking blew the nose sharpe , & growing as it were crooked the breath thick and short , with a colde sweat in the brest and face , and turning and playing with the clothes , the pulse creéping or scarsly to bee felte , and greeuous vnto him to speake , these are infallible signes of death at hand .

Some before any of these signes are perceiued doe dye , The vncertinty of the plague . and some likewise which haue diuers of them appearing , and yet doe escape , such is the vncertentie of this disease : there are many other symptomes which doe happen in this contagious disease , which would be too tedious to declare them all , but these as the cheifest haue I made choyse of , which may suffise you .

The ende of the first Treatise .

THE SECOND TREAtise shewing the meanes how to Cure the plague .

Cap. 1.

WHen we perceiue any to bee infected with this contagious disease , we must with all possible speéde seéke all the meanes we can how to preuent the malignitie thereof , whose propertie is at the first , to assalte the principall parte which is the hart , and therfore requires present helpe : Seeke for helpe in time . for vnlesse some thing bee doone within eight , or foure and twentie houres , little will it then preuaile to attempt it , for by that time nature is either subdued and cleane ouerthrowne , or els hath thrust the same to the exterior partes , or otherwise digested it : yet may we not neglect at any time to vse all the meanes we can in helping and farthering of nature to the vttermost of our endeuour , because we doe often times seé nature so wearied and weakned in expelling of this venemous matter , that vnlesse some helpe be added to assist and comfort her , the partie for lacke thereof dyeth , which otherwise might be saued , for I haue often times seene by dilligent helping of nature , that to be effected and brought to good passe which I haue iudged most desperate . There are foure intentions required for the curing thereof : that is by bloud letting , Cordials , sweat and purging : but the manner how to excecute the same great contention hath beene both amongst the olde and later writers , 4. Intentions to cure the plague . which here to treate of were too tedious , for vnto the learned it were needlesse , and for the communaltie , little would it preuaile them , therfore in breéfe sorte will I shew you , what I haue obserued touching the cure .

First if it be in a plethoricke , sanguine , Who is to bee let bloud . and strong body and hath paine in the head , great heat at the hart , thirstie , the pulse strong and labouring or beating strongly , and hath great and large vaines appearing : these ought presently to be let bloud , in that side where yeé perceiue the griefe doth proffer it selfe to come forth and not visibly appearing , tending to maturation . For then we may not drawe bloud but vse all other meanes we can deuise in helping nature to expell it , neither may you draw bloud , Where a flixe is ▪ drawe not bloud . if the partie haue a flixe or laske ( which is an euill signe ) in the beginning of the disease , for by that meanes you shall hinder nature greatly , but onely giue the partie Cordials ; neither may you stop the flixe , in the beginning , but if it be extreame and that it stay not the second day , then must you giue some purgation which may leaue an asstringencie behinde it , as hereafter in the cure of the flixe shal be shewed . For as Hypocrates in his first booke , and one and twentie aphorisme doth admonish vs , we must consider and marke how nature doth encline her selfe , for that will teach vs what we are to doe .

Now if you perceiue the botch or carbunkle to appeare vnderneth the chinne about the throte , Botch in the throte to cure it . then presently drawe bloud in both vaines vnder the tongue , and immediatly after that apply a cupping glasse with scarification in one side of the necke next vnto the sore , Chickens how to apply them . thereby to draw it from the throte , for feare least soddenly it chooke him vp , and then apply Chickens rumps , or Hens rumps to the botch , the feathers being first pluckt away from the rump , and a grayne of Salte put into the tewell , and so holde the bare place to the greife vntill the chicken drie , which wil be within halfe an houre and then apply another , & so continue in changing them so long as they do drye , and lastly apply a mollificatiue cataplasme or plaster to the same place : as in the fift chapter following is shewed , which is made with Unguentum basillicon , Botch in the necke . and to the botch apply the Epithemation and cataplasme in the seuenth chapter following . But if it be in the necke he doth complaine , then let him bloud in the Cephallica vaine in the arme , of the same side where he complayneth

Botch in the stomacke . If in the greynd or flancke he doe complaine , then let him bloud in the foote on the same side , and open the vaine called Maleola , or Saphena , the quantitie must be according as the age and strength of the partie requireth , but at most draw not aboue sixe or eight ounces . For Auicen willeth vs to preserue bloud as the treasure of nature :

Weake and spare bodies may not bleed . But in a weake , spare , and cachochimious body , ( as Galen teacheth vs ) we may not draw bloud at all , for thereby should you greatly endanger the patience , but helpe such by cordials and sweate .

And here you shall vnderstand that vnlesse Phlebetomy be done at the first , When bloud is to be drawn . that is with in sixe or eight houres at most , it wil be too late to attempt it , neither may you doe it , if the sore doe appeare vp in hight tending to suppuration , for then shoulde you hinder nature , which like a diligent workeman hath discharged and thrust forth that venimous matter which otherwise woulde haue kilde vs .

A good caueat . And here touching Phlebetomy or bloud letting , you must haue this speciall care , that you drawe not bloud on the opposit side , as if it be on the left side the sore appeare , then draw not bloud on the right side , if it appeare in the flancke then drawe not bloud in the arme but in the foote : for otherwise you shal draw that venimous matter from the ignoble vnto the noble partes , and so kill the body .

And although the partie complaine not more in the one side then the other , A good obseruation . yet by the pulse shall you perceiue on which side the venem lyeth hidden : for on that side where nature is opprest , there shall you finde the pulse more weake feéble , and vneuen , greatly differing from the other side .

And here you shall vnderstand that in some it hath bene seene that nature of it selfe at the first , Note . hath thrust out that venimous matter in some place of the body , with a botch appearing high and tending to suppuration , or a carbunckle , or spots called purples . Now here , if you draw bloud , you do then greatly endanger the body : but in this case you must only giue Cordials , and vse all the meanes you can to bring it outwarde , either by maturation or euaporation , as hereafter shal be shewed you .

And here you shall farther vnderstand , that where the age , constitution , nor strength of the partie will permit that Phlebetomy be done , yet for the better helpe of nature you must apply Uentoses , with resonable deepe scarification , vnto the next place adioyning , Ventoses when and where to applie them . where the partie complayneth therby the more speédily to draw the venimous matter vnto the superficiall partes , and there to applie the rumps of Chickens as before is taught you , and so applie to the place some strong maturatiue and attractiue plaster or Cataplasme as hereafter shal be shewed you . If the greife be in the head or throte then applie Uentoses to the necke , if it be in the emunctuaries of the harte , then applie them to the shoulders : if in the emunctuaries of the liuer , then applie them , to the buttockes or thies , now when this is done , either by Phlebetomy or Uentoses , then within an houre or two at the most after it , you must giue the sicke some good Cordiall medicine , which hath power to comfort the harte , resist the venimous matter , and also procure sweat , which here following you maye make choyse , as you list .

An excellent good pouder to expell the plague and prouoketh sweat .

Take . Rootes of Gentian , Bittaine , Petasitis , of either one dramme . Roots of Tormentil Dittander , of either three drammes . Red sanders , halfe a dramme , Fine Pearle , and been of both sortes , of either one scruple . Fine Bolarmoniack prepard . fine Terra sigillata , of either sixe drammes . Rindes of Citrons , Red Correll , Roots of Zedoiar , Shauing of Ebory , bone of a Stagges harte . of either sixtene graines . Fragments of the 5. pretious stones , of either halfe a scruple . Shauing of a Vnicorns horne , Succini , of either halfe a scruple . Leaues of Golde and Siluer . of either one and halfe in number .

Make all these in fine pouder , euery one seuerall by him selfe , and then mixe them all together , and giue thereof one dramme , or foure scruples , more or lesse as occasion requiereth , either in Sorrell , Scabios , or Cardus benedictus water , two or three ounces , Bolarmoniake how for to prepare it . whereunto you must adde a little syrrop of Lymons , or sowre Citrons , & giue it warme , the Bolarmoniake must bee pounded small , then washt in Scabios water and so dried .

An other good pouder .

Take . Leaues of Dittander called dictami cretici , Roots of Tormentil , Bittaine , Pimpernell , Gentian , Zedoair , Terra lemnia , Alloes Cicatrin , Fine Myrre , Rindes of sowre Citrons , of either one dramme Masticke , Saffron , of either halfe a dramme . Bolarmoniacke prepared as beforesaide . two drammes .

All these must be made in fine pouder , and so mixt together , you may giue two scruples or one dramme thereof with any of the foresaide waters .

A good Opiat to expell venem and prouoke sweat .

Take . Conserue of the flowers of Borrage , Buglos , Violets , Bittaine , of either two ounces . Vennes Triacle , two ounces . Red Terra sigillata , Terra lemnia , Mitridat , of either one ounce . Shauing of Eburni , And hartes horne , Orient Perles , Roots of Tormentill , of either one dramme . Shauing of vnicorns horne , Roote of Angelica , of either halfe a dramme . Syrop , of the Iuice of small Sorell and Buglos , of either so much as shall suffice .

Mixe all these together , in the forme of an Opiat , then take of the same Opiat , one dramme and halfe .

Scabios water , Balme water , of either two ounces .

Dissolue the Opiat in the waters , and drinke it warme , then walke a little vpon it , and then goe to bed and sweate ,

An other excellent good meanes to expell the venem , and procure . sweate .

Take a great white Onion , and picke out the coare or myddell of him , then fill the hole with good Uennes triacle or Andromachus triacle , and Aqua vite , then stop or couer the hole of the Onyon againe , and rost him in the whote ashes vntill he be soft , then straine it strongly , thorow a cloth and giue it the sicke to drinke and the rest that remaines pounde it small , and applie it to the soare , and sweate vpon it .

Now when he hath taken any of the foresaid Cordials if he chaunce to vomit it vp againe , In vomiting what is to be done . then wash his mouth with Rose water and Uinegar , and then giue him more of the same againe , which must be proportioned according to the quantitie vomited , for if all were vomited , then giue so much more : ( if lesse ) then according to the quantitie vomyted , and if he vomit that also , then giue him more , and so continue it to the third or fourth time if cause so require , but if at no time he doe retaine it , then is there small hope of recouer : I haue knowne dyuers which haue vomyted their Cordials three or foure times , and at laste , giuing the Iuice of the Onyon as aforesaide hath kept that , and sweate vpon it and so couer their sicknes .

Also Minardus triacle , or Andromachus triacle being taken two scruples with one scruple of Dioscordium , and dissolued in three or two ounces of this water following or Cardus benedictus , Sorrell , and Scabios water , hath bene found excellent good and auailable , both to procure sweat and expell the venimous matter .

An excellent good water against the plague , and diuers other diseases , which is to be made in May or Iune .

Take . Angelica , Dragons , Scabios , of either three handfuls . Wormwoode , Sage , Sallendine , Mugworte , Rue , Rosmarie , Varueyne , Endiue , Myntes , of either one handfull . Tormentill , Pimpernell , Agremonie , Bittayne , of either two handfuls . Sen Iohns worte Fetherfewe , and Pionie , of either a little handfull .

You must mixe al these herbes together , then bruse them in a stone morter grosly , then put them into a cleane vessel of glase or earth , and adde thereto a pottle of White wine , or three quartes , a pinte of Rose water , and a pinte of Uinegar : then mixe them well together and presse downe the herbes close together with your handes , then stop the pot close , and so let it stande to infuse two dayes and two nights then distill it in a stillytorie , this water hath bene found excellent good , both to preserue one from the plague being dronke three or foure sponefuls of it in the morning fasting , as also to expell the disease , being dronke with any of the Cordials aforesaide .

Cap 2. Sheweth what is to be done after taking of the Cordial .

NOw so soone as the partie hath taken his Cordiall , ( if he be able ) cause him to walke vpon it in his chamber a pretie while , then laye him into his naked bed , being first warmed , if it be in colde weather : and so procure him to sweate , but in any case haue a speciall care to keépe him from sleépe all that day , because thereby the bloud and vitall spirites are drawne to the inward partes , and there doth holde in the venemous matter about the harte , but if the sore appeare , or be perceiued to present it selfe in any place neere the harte : then to defend the malignitie thereof , before he sweate it were good to annoynt the place betwixt the region of the hart and the sore with triacle , or with this vnguent following .

A good defensatiue vnguent . Take . Triacle , halfe an ounce . Take . Terra lemnia , Red Sanders , of either one dramme .

Mixe them together with a little Rose water and Uinegar in a morter , to the forme of an vnguent and so vse it as aforesaide .

And vnto the sore place applie Chickens rumpes , as before hath bene tolde you , and then annoynt the place grieued with Oyle of lillyes : and then Epithemat the hart with any one of these Epithemations following .

Epithemation .

Take . The pouder of DiamargaritūFrigidum one scruple , Triasandalum , sixe drammes ▪ Ebeni , two drammes . Saffron , halfe a scruple . Lettis seede , one dramme . Waters of roses , Buglos , and Sorrell , of either sixe ounces . Vinegar , two ounces .

Boyle them all together a little .

An other

Take . The waters of Roses , Balme , Buglos , Cardus benedictus and White wine , of either foure ounces . Vinegar of roses two ounces . Pouder of red roses , Cinamon , Triasandalum , Diamargaritum , Frigidum , of either halfe a dramme . Mitridatum , one ounce . Triacle , halfe an ounce .

Boyle them together a little , and being bloud warme , Epithemat the hart therewith , which being done then procure him to sweate , and after sweate , and the body dried then applie this quickly to the harte .

A quilte for the harte .

Take . The floures of Nenuphare Borrage , Buglos , of either a little handfull Flowres of Balme , Rosmary , of either three drammes . Red sanders , Red Corrall , Lignum alloes , Rinde of a Citron , Seedes of Basil , Citrons , of either one dramme . Leaues of dittander , Berries of Iuniper , of either one scruple . Bone of a stags hart , halfe a scruple . Saffron , foure graines .

Make all these in grose pouder and put them in a bagge of Crimson taffatie , or Lincloth , and lay it to the hart , When you must procure sweate . and there let it remaine . All these thinges being done then procure him to sweate , hauing a good fire in the chamber and windowes close shut , and so let him sweate three or foure houres , more or lesse or according as the strength of the sicke body can endure , and then drie the body well with warme clothes , taking great care that the sicke catch not colde in the doing thereof ▪ and then giue him some of this Julep following , and applie the foresaide quilte or bagge to the harte .

A cordiall Iulep .

Take . Waters of Endiue , Purslane , and Roses , of either two ounces . Sorrell water , halfe a pinte , Iuyce of Pomgarnards , and for lacke thereof Vinegar , foure ounces . Camphire , three drammes . Sugar , one pounde .

Boyle all these together in the forme of a Iulep ▪ and giue three or foure sponefuls thereof , at a time .

An other Iulep .

Take . Syrrop of Ribes Sorrell , Nenuphare , of either one ounce . Iuice of limons , one ounce . Sorrell water , eight ounces .

Mixe all these together , and take two or three sponefuls thereof often times , which will both comforte the hart and quench thirst .

And if in the time of his sweate he be very thirstie , then may you giue him to drinke a Tysane made with water , Thirst to quench it . cleane Barly , and Lycoris scrapt cleane and brused , boyle them together , then straine it , and vnto a quarte of the licquor ad three ounces of syrrop of Lymons , and giue thereof at any time , small beére or ale is also tollerable , or you may giue a sponefull of this Iulep following at any time .

A Iulep to quench thirst . Take . Sorrell water , foure ounces . Take . Borrage water , Scabios water , Sirrop of lymons , and sowre Citrons , of either one ounce .

Mixe all these together and so vse it as occasion requireth at any time : Fainting or sounding to helpe it . and giue often times a cake of Manus christi , made with Perles , for him to eate . But if in the time of his sweate , you seé the sicke to fainte or sowne , then apply to his temples , and the region of the harte , this mixture following .

Take . Conserue of Roses . Borrage , Buglos , Broome floures , of either one ounce . Take . Mitridatum , foure ounces . Take . Triacle , one ounce . Take . Floures of violets Pellamountaine , Red roses , of either one dramme , Take . Roots of Irrios , one dramme . Take . Muske , Siuet , of either eight graines .

Mixe all these together with a quantitie of rose Uinegar in the forme of an Opiat , this must be spread on playsters , and applied , to the harte and temples , and to the soules of the feete applie this playster following .

Take of the foresaide Opiat two ounces , vnto the which you must put so much more of an Onyon , Playster for the feete . which must haue the middle parte thereof taken out , and the hole filde with Mitridat , and Aqua vite , and so rosted in the ashes , and then mixe it with the Opiat , and applie it to both soales of the feete .

Now when all this is done , and that one houre is past after his sweate and body dried as aforesaide : it were good you did giue the sicke some good confortable broth , although he vomit it vp againe , then let him rest two houres , and then offer him more , which you must doe often times , and but little at a time .

And if after all this done hee continue still weake and fainte , without any amendment , then giue him an other Cordiall , as yeé did at the first and so cause him to sweate againe so long as his strength can well endure it , and after sweate , giue more of the Iulep aforesaide , for by this meanes you shall often times seé the sore which did offer it selfe to come forth will be cleane discussed and consumed away : but if it doe not by this meanes goe away , then vse al the meanes you can to bring it vnto Suppuration and then open it with some causticke , or insition , as hereafter shal be shewed you at large .

Sleepe when it is tollerable . The next day after his sweate , you may tollerate him to sleépe one houre or two in the forenoone , whereby to preuent payne , or lightnes of the head which may chaunce through want thereof : and if after his sleépe , the partie be sicke and faynte , then immediatly giue him some good Cordiall , according as the state of his body requireth , Faintnes after sleepe . either in temporat or extreame heate , as before is shewed : and in one houre after that giue some comfortable broth made with Ueale , Mutton , Chicken , or such like : wherein some borrage Buglos , Pimpernell , and a little Isop , with some Parsley rootes the inner pith taken out , must be boylde , whereof hee must take a little at a time , three or foure times a day , and betwixt times in taking of his broth , giue him three or foure sponefuls of this Iulep following , which doth resist vennenositie from the harte , and also quench thirst .

A Iulep to quench thirst and resist vennenositie .

Take . Water of Scabios , Borrage , Sorrell , of either two ounces . Sirrop of Limons Sowre Citrons , and the Iuice of Sorrell , of either one ounce .

Mixe all these together , and giue thereof , as cause requireth .

Then at night he may sleépe three or foure houres more , You may not Purge till the third or fourth day . and the next day , being the third or fourth day of his accubet , you may purge him with one of the purgations here following , but in any case you must take heéde that you do not purge with any strong , or Scamniat medicine , because it may bring an extreame flixe which wil be most dangerous because it will ouermuch weaken the body and hinder concoction , for most commonly in this disease the body of it self is subiecte to flixes .

A good Purgation in a strong bodie

℞ Rad , Cichoriae , ʒ . iiij . Rad , petasitis , ʒ . ss. Fol. Scabiosae . Card. b. Pimpinellae , Acetosae , ana . M. j. Florum , Cord. P. j. Prunorum dammas no. x. Sem. Coriandri . ʒ . ss. Aqua font . ℥ . ix .

Boyle them vntill a third parte be consumed , then strayne it .

℞ Decoct . col. ℥ . iiij . Fol. Senuae . ʒ . iij. Rhab. elect . ʒ . iiij . Spikj . G. iij.

Infuse them together twelue houres then straine it strongly , and adde thereto these thinges .

Syr. de Cichoria . cum Rhab. ʒ . vj . Oxisacchari . Simp. ʒ . ij .

Mixe them altogether and drinke it in the morning refraining from meate , drinke , and sleépe , three houres after and then eate some good broth .

An other in a plethoricke and full body .

℞ Fol. Scabiosae . Buglossae . Card. b. ana . M. j. Florum Cord. P. j. Rad. Tormentillae , ʒ . iij. Rad. Fenic , ana . ʒ . iiij . Cichonae , ana . ʒ . iiij . Passularum enucleat . ℥ . j. Prunorum dammas , no. vj. Sem. anisi , Coriandri , Oxialidis . ana . ℈ . j. Sennae , Polipod . q. ana . ℥ . j.

Boyle all these in a sufficient quantitie of water , vntill halfe the water be consumed , then straine it , and keépe it .

℞ Rhab. elect . ʒ . ij . Agarici , tros . ʒ . j. Croci . ℈ . ss. Aquarum scabiosae , Borraginis , Card. b. ana . ʒ . iiij .

Infuse these together twelue houres in a warme place , then straine them strongly : and adde thereto .

Syr. ros. lax . Mannae Calabriae , ana . ℥ . j. Decoct . col. ℥ . ij . vel . ℥ . iij.

Mixe all these together , and take it as the other before .

A good Purgation for a weake body . ℞ Fol. sennae , ʒ . iij. ℞ Rhab elect , ʒ . j. ℞ Sem , anisi , ʒ . ss. ℞ Schenanthi , ℈ . ss. ℞ Aqua Acetosae , ℥ . v.

Boyle them a little , then take it from the fire , and let them stand infused together twelue houres then straine it out strongly , and adde thereto .

Syr. ros. lax . ℥ . j ,

And then drinke it as the other before .

An other gentle Purgation .

℞ Aquarum scabiosae , Card. b. Aqua ad pestem , ana . ℥ . j. Rhab elect , ʒ . ij . ss. Cinamomi , ʒ . ss.

Infuse them together twelue houres , and straine them strongly , then adde to the strayning .

Syr , ros , lax , ℥ . j. Syr , de limonibus , ʒ . iiij .

Mixe them together and so drinke it as the other before , you may either adde , or diminish of the Rubarbe vnto any of these potions as you list .

After purging giue a Cordial . Now when you seé the Purgation hath done working , then giue the sicke some Cordiall thing , as hereafter followeth , which hee must also take the next morning following .

A good Cordiall to be taken after Purging .

℞ Conserua Borrag , Buglos , Mali Citri , ana . ʒ . iiij . Confect Alkermis , ʒ . j. Boli , Veri , ʒ . ss. Specierum diarhod abb , ℈ . ij . Diamarga , frigid , ʒ . j. Manus christi perlati , ℥ . j. Syr , de lymon , ʒ . iiij .

Mixe all these together , and giue the sicke thereof so much as a chestnut at a time , you must often times eate thereof , if the sicke be in no great heate .

An other good Cordiall to be giuen where great heate is . ℞ Conseruae Borag , ʒ . iiij . ℞ Conseruae fol , acetosae , ℥ . j. ℞ Bolarm , veri , ʒ . j. ℞ Manus christi cum perlis , ℥ . j , ℞ Syr , de limonibus , q. 5. misse .

You must often times giue of this , where great heate is , so much as thrée beanes at a time .

A good Cordiall potion . ℞ Aquarum buglossae , Acetosae , ana . ℥ . j. ℞ Pul , diamarga , frigi , ʒ . ss. Take . Confectio alkermis , G. ij . Take . Syr , de aceto , Citri , ℥ . j. misse . Take . Vel de limon , ℥ . j. misse .

All this you may take after purging , as aforesaide , at any time .

Note . And here you must vnderstand , that if it be in a plethoricke body full of ill humors , it were good that you purge him againe the next day .

Cap 3. Sheweth what Simptoms often chaunce and how to help them .

FOr that in this contagious disease there are diuers dangerous simptoms which doe oftimes chance I will here shew you good meanes , how to helpe the same .

For lightnes of the head through want of sleepe .

℞ Hordei mund , P. j. Amigd , dul , depilatum , ℥ . j. ss. Sem. 4. Frigid , ma , mund , ana . ℈ . j. Aqua font , q. 5. fiat decoctio . Decoct col . l. j. Syr de limombus , de Papa . ana. ℥ . j. ss. Sacchari perlati , ℥ . j.

Boyle them together a little , and then keépe it to your vse , you must often times giue two or three sponefuls therof to drinke , and annoynt his temples with this oyntment .

Oyntment to prouoke sleepe .

℞ Vnguent , popillionis , ʒ . iiij . Vnguent , Alabastrini , Ol , Nenuphariae misse , ana . ʒ . ij .

This oyntment is not onely good to prouoke sleépe , but will also ease the payne of the head , if the place greéued bee annoynted therewith .

For rauing and raging .

Yf the partie raue , then giue him one scruple of the pouder of a hartes horne burnt , with halfe an ounce of the sirrop of Uiolets , and Lymons , and applie this sacculus following to the heade .

A good Sacculus for rauing and raging .

℞ Florum Nenupharij , P. j. Cort : Pap , ʒ . ij . Santali , Rub , Citri , albi , ana . ʒ . j. Florum ros. rub , P. j. Florum Viol. P. ss. Florum chamomil , Betonicae , ana . ʒ . j.

Shread them all small , then pounde them grosly , and quilt them in a bagge , and applie it to the head , and it will helpe you .

Aphtham to helpe it .

In this contagious disease , there doth chance an vlceration of the mouth which is called Aphtham , it commeth by meanes of the great interior heate which the sicke is oppressed with , in the time of his sicknes , which if it bee not well looked vnto in time , it will greatly endanger the body , for remedy whereof vse this Gargaris .

A good Gargaris for the mouth .

Take . Cleane Barley , one handfull . Wilde daysie leaues , Planten leaues , Strauberie leaues , Violet leaues , of either one handfull . Purslan seede , one scruple . Quinche seede , one scruple and halfe . Licqueris brused , foure drammes .

Boyle all these in a sufficient quantitie of water vntill the water be halfe consumed , then straine it , and take one pinte and halfe thereof and adde thereto .

Syrrop of roses by infusion And Syrrop of dried roses , of either foure drams . Diamoron , two ounces ,

Mixe these together , and Gargaris and wash the mouth therewith often times , being warme , and it helpeth .

Vomitting extreamly how to helpe it .

If it come in the beginning of the disease , as most commonly it doth , ther is no better meanes to stay it then by giuing of Cordials and by sweating , by which meanes that Uennemous matter which is the cause thereof , is expelled and breathed out , but if after Cordials giuen , and sweate , it doth not stay , it is a very il and daugerous signe : yet what meanes I haue vsed to stay the same , I will here shew you .

A good bagge for the stomacke .

Take . Dried leaues of Mints , Elder , Orgaine , Wormwoode , Calaminte , Mugworte Time , Balme , Pellemountaine , Toppes of Dill , of either a little handfull . Seeds of Cardus benedictus , Fennell , Annis , Rootes of Ciperus , Calamus aromaticus , of either foure drammes . Nutmegs , Cloues , Mace , of either halfe a dramme .

Make all these in grose pouder , then put it into a linnen bagge , wich must be made so broad and long as will couer the stomacke : then take Rose water , and strong Uinegar , of either ten sponefuls , wherein doe you dissolue one ounce of Mitridat , then must you first wet the saide bagge in two partes of cleane water and a third parte of White or Claret wine , and let him sooke therein a little while , the lyquor being first warmd on a chafer and coles , and then wet him in the Rose water and Uinegar being warme , and so applie it to the stomacke , and when he waxeth colde , warme him therein againe , and let him remaine halfe an houre in all , and then take him away , and drie the stomacke with a warme cloth , and then annoynt it with this ointment following .

Take . Kimicall oyles of Rosmarie , Take . Sage , Take . Vinegar , Take . Mitridat , of either one dramme .

Mixe all these together , and so vse it , and if the partie be costiue , then were it good to giue him a glister wherein dissolue two drammes of Mitridat , it is also good to applie Uentoses vnto the buttockes and thighes .

Yoxe , or yexing to stay it

R. Dill seede , two scruples and halfe . White poppie seede Purslan seede , of either one scruple and halfe .

Bruse them a little then knit them in a fine Linnen cloth and let it sooke in the drinke which he vseth , and when you giue him drinke , wring out the bagge therein , and let him drinke it and that will stay it , also the order aforesaide to helpe vomitting , is good to stay the yoxe or yexing , but if nether of them preuaile , then wil the sicke hardly escape death .

Flyxe how to stop it .

You must first giue the patient this purgation following , which doth not onely purge away those flymie humors which is the cause thereof , but doth also leaue an astringencie behinde it .

℞ Rhab , elect , ʒ . iij. Cinamomi , ℈ . ij . Aquarum , Endiuae , Borraginis , ana . ℥ .ij.

Infuse them together twelue houres then straine it out strongly , and adde thereto one ounce of syrrop of roses Laxatiue , and so drinke it warme refraining from meate , drink and sleépe three houres after it : and at night when it hath done working , giue this confection following .

℞ Conseruae , ros , ʒ . iiij . Dioscordij , ℈ . j. ss. Pul , diatragag , frigid , ℈ . j. Dialkermes , G.x. Syr , de limon , ʒ . ij , misse .

When you haue giuen this confection then doe you Epithemat the region of the harte with this Epithematiue following .

Epithemation for the harte

℞ Aquarum , Buglossae , Borrag , Rosarum , Oxialidis , ana . ℥ . iiij . Troschiscorū de camphera , ℈ . j. Pul , diamargarit , frigid , ʒ . j. Aceti alb , ℥ . j. Ossa de corde cerui , ℈ . ss. Santal , rub , Coral , rub , misse , ana . ℈ . j.

With this you must Epithemat the region of the harte warme , a quarter of an houre , and if by this meanes it stay not then the next day giue some of this confection following , which I haue founde excellent good for the stopping of any flixe whatsoeuer .

℞ Conseruae ros , sicca , ℥ . i. Pul , Rhab , troschiscat , ℈ , j. Terrae lemniae , ʒ . ss. Lap , Hemattitis , Saug , Draco , Bolarmoni , ana . ℈ . ij . Mitridati , misse , ʒ . j.

You must euery morning and euening giue two drammes hereof , and drinke some Planten water after it .

A good cauiat Now here you must vnderstand , that if the flixe come in the beginning of the sicknes , and that no botch , carbunckle , nor spots appeare in the body : then in any case you maye not goe about to stop it , but suffer nature to discharge it selfe and onely helpe nature with Cordials , and Epithemations applied to the hart , but if by the continuance thereof the patient grow very weake and faint therewith , then is it to be repressed as before is shewed , but it must be the third daye before you attempt to do it .

But if this flixe come , When aflixe is dangerous when the botch or carbunkle doth appeare and tending to maturation , then is it very dangerous , for by that meanes , vennemous matter is drawne backe againe into the principall partes , and so killeth the patient .

Cap. 4. Sheweth the generall cure of a botch when he appeares outwardly .

FIrst giue Cordials , and vse the defensiue before taught you in the second chapter , thereby to keépe it from the hart , and then bring it to maturation as followeth .

A good maturatiue .

Take a great Onyon and roast him in the ashes , then pounde him with some pouder of white Mustard seéde , and for lacke thereof some triacle , and pounde them together , and so apply it to the griefe warme , and renue it twise a day , which within three or foure dayes at most will bring it to Suppuration .

An other .

Take . White lillie rootes , Enulacompane roots , Scabios , & Onyons , of either two ounces .

Roast all these together in a cole leafe , or a wet paper , then pound them with some sweéte butter and a little Uennes triacle , wherevnto doe you adde some Galbanum , and Ammoniacum dissolued in Uinegar , and straine from the fesses and dregges , and so mixe them altogether and applie it , renuing it twise a day .

An other , where no inflammation is .

Take . Vnguentum basillicon , foure ounces . Sowre Leauen , two ounces . Oyle of lyllies Sweete Butter , of either foure drams . Triacle , one dramme and halfe . Yolckes of two Egges .

Mixe them together , and so applie it and when it is come to Suppuration then open it in the lowest part either with a potentiall causticke , or by insition , but the causticke is best , and when you haue opened it , if no matter flowe out , then applie the rumpes of Chickens to the sore as before hath bene shewed : after that put into the wounde a digestiue as followeth .

A digestiue .

Take . The yolcke of an Egge , Cleare Turpentine , foure drammes . Clarefied Honny , two drammes . Mitridat , or Triacle , halfe a dramme .

Mixe all these together , and vse it in the wound , vntill it be well digested , which you may perceiue by the great quantitie of white and thick matter that wil flow out of it ▪ & vpon the sore laye this Cataplasme vntill it be digested .

A digestiue Cataplasme .

℞ Fat Figges and raysins the stones pickt out , of either two ounces . Sal , nitrum , foure drammes . Sowre Leauen , three ounces . Honny , one ounce . Oyle of chamomill one ounce and halfe .

You must shread and pound the Figges and Raisins very small , then commixe it with the rest in a morter in forme of a pultis , and vse it .

And when it is digested then you must mundifie it , Mundificatiue with a mundificatiue , to which purpose , Unguentum viridum , or Apostolorum mixte with Unguentum basillicon wil serue and when it is cleane mundified , then to encarne and heale it vp , doe you only annoynt or stricke it ouer with a feather , Emplestrum Kellebackeron you shall finde made with maister Bakerone of her Maiesties chirurgions . wet in Arceus linament , which must be molten in a saucer , and ouer all , lay a playster of Diacculum , or a playster of Kellebackeron , which is excellent good in all appostomes and tumors , and in this order doe you proceede , vntill the griefe be whole .

Cap. 5. Sheweth how to bring the botch out , that lieth deepe within the body or fleshe .

FIrst you must consider , that often times the botch or carbunkle , doth offer it selfe to come forth in some place of the body , and yet no apparant signe thereof , but lieth deepe hidden within , because nature is not of sufficient strength to thrust it forth : which is easily perceiued by the great and almost intollerable paine , that by some is felte in the place where nature entends to expell it : which in the most parte of people , is by bloudletting , Cordials , and sweate , is cleane taken away and euacuated : but if after al this done it goe not away , then vnto these you must vse all the meanes you can to bring it to the outwarde partes . First by giuing to the sicke often times some Cordiall electuary to keépe it from the harte , then , ( if no great paine in the outwarde parte ) you must applie a cupping glasse , with Scarryfication , directly against the place where the griefe is felte , and let it remaine thereon a quarter or halfe an houre , then take it away , and presently applie the rumpe of Chickens , Hens , or Pigeons to the place ( as before hath beene shewed ) that being done , then lay some Attractiue and Maturatiue playster or Cattaplasme to the place which here following is shewed , and euery sixth houre you must applie the cupping glasse , as also the rest , vntill such time as you haue brought the venimous matter to the outward partes , there to be visiblie seene , or at least by feéling to be perceiued , which commonly is effected at the second time , then vse no more cupping , but onely applie a maturatiue to the place .

A good Maturatiue cataplasme .

℞ Rad simphyti , Liliorum , Ceparum , Allium , ana . ℥ .j. Fol , Oxialidis , M.j.

You must pounde all these together a lyttle , then wrap them in a cole leafe , and so roast them in the whot embers , then pound them in a morter , whereunto adde .

Ol , liliorum , Auxungiae porc , ana . ℥ . j. Fermenti acris , ʒ . vj. Mitridatij , ʒ . j.

Mixe them altogether in forme of a Pultisse , and so applie it warme , and renue it twise a day .

An other .

℞ Galbani Apopanacis , Ammoniaci , ana . ʒ . iiij .

Dissolue these in Uinegar , if the botch be whote and inflamde ( but if it be not ) then dissolue them in Aqua vite , and being dissolued then strayne it from the dregges , and adde thereto . Vnguent , basilici , Mitridat , Fermenti acris , ana . ʒ . iiij .

Mixe all these together , and applie it .

An other which is soner made .

Take a great Onyon , make a hole in the myddle of him then fill the place with Mitridat or Triacle , and some leaues of Rue , then roast him in the whote embers , and when it is soft , then pound it with some Barrowes grease , and applie it to the sore , and that will rypen it in short time then open and cure it as in the Chapter before .

But if the paine & inflammation in the place be so great that the partie cannot endure cupping glasses to be vsed , thē must you applie a Uessicatorie to the place , in the lowest parte of the griefe .

A Vessicatorie .

Take Cantarrides brused in grosse pouder halfe a dramme , sowre Leauen two drammes , mixe them together in a morter with a little Uinegar , and applie it , which within twelue houres will rayse a blister , which you must open and then lay an Iuie or coleleafe to the place , and vpon all , applie any of the Cattaplasmes aforesaide , and dresse it twise a day , and once a day at least giue the patient some Cordiall , and when it is come to a softnes and that you perceiue it is impostimated , then open , it and so proceede to the cure as before is shewed .

When the botch will not come to Maturation , but continueth alwaies hard .

Somtime it is seene that the botch although it appeare outwardly , yet will it not come to maturation , which commonly is accomplished with in three or foure dayes , but will resist whatsoeuer you applie to it , and remaine and continue alwaies hard , now here you must presently open it either with a Causticke , or by insition , for feare least it strike in againe , or at least growe to gangrena , but before you open it you must Epithemat the griefe with this Epithemation following , and euery morning and euening giue the sicke some Cordiall , and betwixt the sore and the harte annoynt it with the defensiue before in the second chapter ▪

An Epithemation .

Take . Leaues of Mallowes , Violets , Chammomell , of either one handfull . Floures of Dill , Mellilot , of either one ounce . Hollehock roots , foure ounces . Linseede , two ounces .

Boyle all these in a sufficient quantitie of water vntill halfe the water be consumed , and then wet some wooll , or flaxe therein being first well beaten and pickt cleane , and warme laye it vpon the sore , and as it cooleth do you take it away , & lay on another warme stewse , & so continue it halfe an houre together , and then open it as before saide , and immediatly applie to the wound Chickens , or Hens , as before in the first chapter hath bene shewed you . And if you cannot get Chickens , nor Hens , then a Whelpe , or a Pigeon clouen a sunder by the backe and so applyed warme , Pigeons or whelpes insteede of Chickens . wil suffice which must be renued so often times as cause requireth , and when that is done , then applie vnto the wound a digestiue , made as followeth .

A digestiue

Take . Terpentine , halfe an ounce , Take . Honny two drammes . Take . Mitridat , or Triacle , halfe a dramme . Take . The yolcke of a new layde Egge ,

Mixe all these together and vse it in the wound and vpon all lay the digestiue cattaplasme beforesaid , which is made of Figges , or a playster of Kellebackeron , or of Diaculum magnum , and dresse it twise a day and euery dressing , Epithemat the griefe as before saide , when it is digested , then mundyfie , encarne and sigillate it as in the chapter before is shewed you .

Cap. 6. Sheweth what is to be done , when the botch strikes in againe .

SOmetimes you shall see the sore will appeare outwardly , and sodenly vanish away againe , which is a very dangerous and deadly signe , now when this doth chaunce , then presently giue some good Cordiall that hath power to expell the venem , as in the first chapter of this treatise you maye finde choyse of , and immediatly applie this pultis to both the soales of his feete , which must be made with Culuer doong and Uinegar mixt togeather , A good pultis . and spread on a cole leafe , and so applied , you must giue the Cordiall euery third houre , and immediatly after the first giuing of the Cordiall , you must Epithemat the hart with the Epithemation before expressed in the second chapter of this treatise , and when that is done then cause the sicke to sweat if you may , and after his sweate , and the body well dried , then giue him an easie Glister , the next day purge him with some gentle purgation as before is shewed you . And if by these meanes you preuaile not , then small hope of life is to be expected , yet Petrus Forestus , willeth you first to giue a Glister , and then within two houres after it to draw some bloud in the same side where the griefe is , and to annoynt the place grieued with Unguentum resumptiuum mixt with some Oyle of chammomell , and then two houres after it to giue a Cordiall and procure sweate vpon it , and so following the rest of the orders aforesaide , did recouer dyuers .

Cap. 7. Sheweth how to drawe a botch from one place to another , and so to discusse him without breaking .

FIrst you must applie a cupping glasse next adioyning to the lower parte of the sore , on that side where you would haue him to be brought , and next vnto that glasse applie another so nere the first as you can , and if that be not so farre as you would haue the sore to be brought , then applie the third glasse , and let them all remaine a quarter of an houre , then take away , the last glasse , but suffer the first to remaine , then presently applie him againe and let it remaine a quarter of an houre more , and doe so three or foure times together , but alwaies suffer the first glasse next the sore , for to remaine , now when you haue thus donne , then take all the glasses away , and presently applie a vessicatory to the place where the last and vttermost glasse did stand , suffring it to remaine there twelue houres , then open the blister and lay an Iuie or cole leafe to the place , and vpon all lay a playster of Kellebackeron , or Diacculum magnum , and dresse it twise a day , the longer you keépe it running the better it will be , and at length , heale it vp as other vlcers are cured .

Now so soone as you haue applied the Uessicatorie you must presently epithemat the botch with this epithemation .

Epithemation .

Take . Mallowes , Violets , Chammomill , Dill and Mellilot , of either one handfull . Hollehocke rootes , three ounces . Linseede , one ounce and halfe .

Boyle all these in a sufficient quantitie of water vntill halfe the water be consumed , in this decoction you must wet some vnwasht wooll , or flaxe made cleane and well beaten , then being wrong out a little applie it warme to the place , and renue it euery houre during the time that the Uessicatorie is in working , and when you haue opened the blister which is made thereby , then onely applie this Cataplasme to the botch it selfe .

Take . Mallowes , Take . Violets and Chammomell Take . floures , of either one handfull .

Boyle them in water vntil they be tender , then cut them very small with a shreading knife , and adde thereto .

Oyle of chammomel and Lillies , of either two ounces . Barrowes morte , two ounces . Wax , one ounce .

Melt the waxe in the Oyles , and then put it to the herbes and boyle them together a little , then take it from the fire , and adde thereto Barly , and Beane floure a handfull of either of them , and so mixe them all together , and applie it to the griefe , renuing it twice a day , which within three or foure dayes wil resolue and discusse the botch , but if it doe it not by that time , then vse all the meanes you can to bring it to suppuration as before is sufficiently shewed you .

Cap. 8. Sheweth howe to knowe a carbunkle or blayne as also the cure of the same .

THe carbunkle or blaine , doth first begin with a little Pustule or wheale : and some times with diuers Pustules or wheales together , with a great burning and pricking paine in the place which Pustules are like a scalding bladder , seming to be ful of water or matter , yet when you open it , little or nothing will come out of it , and when they are broken will growe to a hard crust or a scarre , as if it had bene burnt with a whote yron or causticke , with a great ponderositie or heauines in the place . In some it comes in the beginning without any Pustule at all to be perceiued , but with a hard blacke crust or a scarre , sometimes it lieth hidden in the inwarde partes without any outward appearance at all , Carbunkle in the Lungs . as if it be in the lungs , then there is a difficultie of breathing , with a cough and foule spitting .

If it be in the liuer or spleéne , Carbunkle in the liuer or spleene . Carbunkle in the bladder or Kidneyes . Carbunkle in the braine . then the partie feéleth a great paine and pricking in the same side , if in the kidneyes or bladder it doth chance , them is ther suppression or stopping of the vrine , or great paine in the making of water , if it be in the brayne , then a delirium followeth , but howsoeuer it chance to come the partie infected therewith hath a feauer , with other accidents as before in the 13. chapter of the first treatise is declared : if it begin with a greéne , blacke , or blewe , colour , or of dyuers colours like the raynbowe , Ill signes . then is it a deadly signe , and so is it , if once it appeare and then sodenly vanish away : but if it be red or yellowish , so it be not in any of the principall partes , Good signes . or eniunctuaries of the body , as the hart , stomack armpit , flanck , Iawes or throte , them is it laudable , otherwise in any of these places very desperat and dangerous to be cured , but wheresoeuer it doth chance , vnlesse it may be brought to suppuration it is deadly ,

The cure of the carbunkle .

First the vniuersall meanes must not be neglected , as bloudletting , Cordials , Epithemations , sweéte , and gentle euacuation by purging , as the time and cause requireth , which before in the beginning of this treatise hath bene shewed at large , and the same order which is vsed for the cure of a botch , is also to be kept in the cure of a carbunkle , also to rectyfie the ayre of the house by straining it with vine and willow leaues , red Roses and such like , as also to sprinckle the floore with Rose water and Uinegar , and cause the sicke often times to smell vnto a cloth wet in rose water and Uinegar is very good : these thinges being done , then vse all the meanes you can to bring it to Suppuration , for which purpose this Cataplasme following is very good .

A maturatiue Cataplasme .

Take . Fat Figges , foure ounces . Musterd seede , one ounce and halfe .

Pound the seéde small by it selfe , the Figges must first be cut very small , and then pounded likewise , and then adde thereto so much Oyle of lyllies as will suffice to make it in the forme of a stiffe pultis , and applie it warme , renuing it twise a day , this must be continued vntill the scarre begin to growe loose and moueable , and then applie this following to remoue the scarre .

Take vnsalted butter , the yolcke of an Egge ▪ and wheat floure , mixe them together , and applie it vntill the scarre doe fall away , then doe you mundifie it with this mundificatiue .

Mundificatiue annodine .

Take . Clere Terpentine , foure ounces . Syrrop of red Roses , one ounce . Honnie of roses , foure drammes ,

Boyle them altogether a little then take it from the fire and adde thereto Barlie and wheate floure of either sixe drammes , the yolke of a new layde egge , and mixe them all together and applie it three dayes , and then vse this following .

Another Mundificatiue .

Take . Cleare Terpentine , three ounces . Honny of roses , two ounces . Iuice of smalege , two ounces . Barlie floure , one ounce and halfe .

Boyle them all together sauing the Barley , vntill the Iuice be consumed , then take it from the fire , and when it is almost colde , adde the Barly thereto and mixe them together , and vse thereof to the griefe vntill it be cleane mundified , and then incarne it with Unguentum basillicon , and lastly sigilate it with Unguentum de cerusae decocted .

Some time you shall finde a little pustule to appeare , without any elleuation of the parts adioyning , or outward hardnes . Now here to bring it outwardly , you must applie this Cattaplasme .

Take . Lillie rootes , Onyons and sowre Leauen , of either one ounce .

Boyle them in water vntill the water be consumed , then bruse them in a morter and adde thereto .

Musterd seede , Culuer doong , White Sope , of either one dramme and halfe . Snayles without shelles , vi . in number . Mitridat Triacle , of either halfe a dramme . Yolckes of foure Egges .

Mixe all these together and applie it warme to the griefe renuing it thrise a day : this order must be continued vntill you seé the place elleuated tending to suppuration , then applie a maturatiue , and so proceede as next before this is shewed you , and during the whole time of the cure , I holde it better to vse rather Pultises then playsters , because they do not so much stop the pores , but giue more scope for the venimous matter to breath out .

When the carbunkle doth come with great paine and inflammation , how to helpe it .

You must first bath and soke the place well with this bagge following , and then presently applie the Cattaplasme ensuing , for by this meanes you shall not onely ease the paine and abate the inflammation and feauer , but also preuent the danger of gangrena which may chance thereby .

The botch .

Take . Mallowes , Violets Plantine . Liblong , of either one handfull . Fat Figges , one ounce . Holliehock rootes , Lillie rootes , of either one ounce . Linne seede , one ounce .

You must shread the herbes grosly , and cut the Figges , and rootes small , then bruise them in a morter , and mingle them altogether , then put them into two little bagges , of Lincloth , and boyle them in a sufficient quantitie of cleane water , vntill the water be halfe consumed , then take out one of the bagges and wringe out the water a little and applie it to the griefe warme , and when it is colde take it away and lay on the other , and doe so halfe an houre together euery dressing , which must be twise a day , at least .

The Cataplasme .

Take . Mallowes , Violets , Sorrell Liblong . of either two handfuls . Henbane , a little handful .

Wrap them all in a ball together and roaste them in the ashes , then bruse them in a morter and adde thereto .

Mel rosarum foure ounces . Triacle , one dramme and halfe . Saffron in pouder , halfe a dramme . Yolckes of fiue Egges .

Mixe them together with the rest , adding some Barlye floure thereto to thicken it , and applie it warme , renuing it alwaies before it growe drie and stiffe , and euery dressing you must Epithemat the griefe first with the bagges aforesaide , and this order must be continued vntill the paine and inflammation be gone , then to bring it vnto Suppuration , if you adde to the foresaid Cataplasme some Oyle of lillies and sweéte butter vnsalted , it will be verie good or you maye make this Cataplasme following .

Take . Soote of the chimny , three ounces . Baye salte , one ounce and halfe . Yolckes of two or three Egges .

Mixe all these together in a morter , and applie it to the griefe warme , which must be alwaies renued and changed before it growe drie and stiffe , this order must be continued vntill the sore come to suppuration , them to remoue the scarre and finish the cure , doe you follow the order prescribed in the beginning of this chapter .

There are other dangerous accidents which doe sometimes chance in the botch or carbunkle , which here to treate of woulde little preuaile the vnexpert people , because they knowe not the meanes how to execute the same , but if any such thing chance , then doe I wish you to seéke the helpe of some learned Phisitian , or expert Chirurgion , whose counsell I do wish you to follow .

The ende of the second Treatise .

A Short treatise of the small pockes , shewing the means how for to gouerne and cure those which are infected therewith .

CAP. 1. Sheweth what the small pockes and measels are , and whereof it proceedeth .

FOR that oftentimes those that are infected with the plague , are in the ende of the disease sometime troubled with the small pockes or measels , as also by good obseruation it hath béene séene that they are forerunners or warnings of the plague to come , as Salius and diuers other writers doe testifie : I haue thought it good and as a matter pertinent to my former treatise , to shew the aydes and helpes which are required for the same .

I néede not greatly to stande vpon the description of this disease , because it is a thing well knowen vnto most people , procéeding of adusted bloud mixe with fleagme , as Auicen witnesseth , which according to both antient and later writers doth alwaies beginne with a feauer , then shortly after there arise small redde pustules vppon the skinne throughout all the body , which doe not sodainely come forth , but by intermission in some more or lesse , according to the state and quality of the bodie infected therewith for in some there arise many little ▪ pustules with elleuation of the skinne , which in one day doe encrease and grow bigger , and after haue a thick matter growing in them , which the Gréekes call exanthemata or exthymata : and after the Latines variola , in our English tongue the small pockes : and here some writers doe make a difference betwixt variola and exanthemata : for say they , that is called variola when manie of those pustules doe sodainely runne into a cleare bladder as if it had bene scalled , but the other doth not so : yet are they both one in the cure , they doe most commonly appeare the fourth day , or before the eight day , as Auicen witnesseth

What the measels or males are .

Auicen saith , that the measels or males is that which first commeth with a great swelling in the flesh , with many little pimples , which are not to be séene , but onely by féeling with the hand are to be perceiued , they haue little elleuation of the skinne , neither doe they growe to maturation or ende with vlceration as the pocks doth doe , neither doe they assault the eyes or leaue any deformity behinde them as the pockes doth doe , neither are they so swift in comming forth , but doe grow more slowely : they require the same cure which the pockes haue : they procéede of cholericke and melancholicke bloud .

The cause of the pockes and measels .

The primitiue cause as Valetius saith , is by alteration of the ayre , Primatiue . in drawing some putrified and corrupt quality vnto it , which doth cause an ebulition of our bloud .

The cause antecedent , is repleasion of meates which doe easily corrupt in the stomacke , Antecedent . as when we eate milke and fish together at one time , or by neglecting to drawe bloud , in such as haue accustomed to doe it euery yeare , whereby the bloud doth abounde .

The coniunct cause , is the menstruall bloud which from the beginning in our Mothers wombes wee receaued , Coniunct. the which mixing it selfe with the rest of our bloud , doth cause an ebulition of the whole .

The efficient cause , is nature or naturall heate , which by that menstruall matter mixing it selfe with the rest of our bloud , doth cause a continuall vexing and disquieting thereof , Efficient . whereby an vnnaturall heate is encreased in all the body , causing an ebulition of bloud , by the which this filthy menstruall matter is separated from our naturall bloud , & the nature being offended and ouerwhelmed therewith , doth thrust it to the outward pores of the skinne as the excrementes of bloud : which matter if it be hoate and slimy , then it produceth the pocks , but if dry & subtill , then the measels or males .

But Mercuriales an excellent writer in Phisicke , in his first booke de morbis puerorum , cap. 2. agreeing with Fernelius in his 2. de abditis rerum causis , cap. 12. doth holde opinion that the immediate cause of this disease doth not proceede of menstruall bloud , but of some secret and vnknowen corruption or defiled quality of the ayre , causing an ebulition of bloud , which is also verified by Valetius , and nowe dooth reckon it to be one of the heredytable diseases , because fewe or none doe escape it , but that either in their youth , ripe age , or olde age , they are infected therewith . The contention hereabout is great , & mighty reasons are oppugned on both sides , therefore will I leaue the iudgement thereof vnto the better learned to define : but mine opinion is , that nowe it procéedeth of the excrements of all the foure humors in our bodies , which striuing with the purest , doth cause a supernaturall heat & ebulition of our bloud , alwaies beginning with a feauer , in the most part : and may well bee reckoned in the number of those diseases which are called Epidemia : as Fracastorius in his first booke , de morbis contag . cap. 13. witnesseth this disease is very contagious and infectious , as experience teacheth vs : there are two speciall causes why this disease is infectious : Why the pocks is infectious . the first is , because it procéedeth by ebulition of bloud , whose vapour being entred into another bodie , doth soone defile and infect the same : the second reason is , because it is a disease hereditable : for we sée when one is infected therewith , that so manie as come néere him , ( especially those which are allyed in the same bloud ) doe assuredly for the most part receaue the infection also .

Cap. 2. Sheweth to know the signes when one is infected , as also the good and ill signes in the disease .

THE signes when one is infected are these , first hee is taken with a hoate feauer , and sometime with a delirium ▪ great paine in the back , furring and stopping of the nose , beating of the heart , hoarsenesse , rednesse of the eies and full of teares , with heauinesse and payne in the head , great beating in the foreheade and temples , heauines and pricking in all the body , drynes in the mouth , the face verie red , paine in the throate and breast : difficulty in breathing , and shaking of the handes and feete , with spitting thicke matter .

When they doe soone or in short time appeare , and that in their comming out they doe looke red , Good signes . and that after they are come forth they doe looke white and spéedily grow to maturation , that he draweth his breath easily , and doth find himselfe eased of his paine , and that his feauer doeth leaue him , these are good and laudable signes of recouery .

When the pockes lye hidden within and not appearing outwardly : Ill signes . or if after they are come forth they doe sodainely strike in againe and vanish awaie , or that they doe looke of a black ▪ blewish and gréene colour , with a difficulty and straitnesse of drawing breath , and that hee doe often sowne , if the sicke haue a flixe or laske , when the pockes were found double , that is one growing within another , or when they runne together in blisters like scalding bladders , and then on the sodaine doe sincke downe and growe drie with a harde blacke scarre or crust as if it had béene burnt with an hoate iron , all these are ill signes .

Auicen saieth there are two speciall causes which produce death vnto those that haue this disease : Two speciall causes of death either for that they are choked with great inflammation and swelling in the throate called Angina , or hauing a flixe or laske which doeth so weaken and ouerthrow the vitall spirits , that thereby the disease is encreased , and so death followeth .

How to know of what humors this disease commeth .

If it come of bloud , then they appeare redde , Bloude . with generall payne and great heate in all the body .

If they come of choler , them wil they appear of a yellowish , Choller . red and cleare colour , with a pricking payne in all the body .

If they come of fleagme , Fleagme . then will they appeare of a whitish colour and scaly , or with scales .

If they come of melancholy them wil they appeare blackish with a pricking payne . Melancholy .

Cap. 3. Sheweth the meanes to cure the pockes or measels .

THere are two speciall meanes required for curing this disease : the first is to helpe nature to expell the same from the interior and principall parts vnto the exterior : the second is to preserue both the interior and exterior partes , that they may not be hurt thereby .

For the first intention , if the age and strength of the sicke will permit , and that the pockes or measels appeare not , it were then good in the first , second , or third day , to draw bloud out of the Basillica vaine in the right arme , if he be not vnder the age of fourtéene years , but the quantity must bée at the discretion of him that draweth it , eyther more or lesse as occasion is offered : but for children and such as are of tender yéeres , Children may not bleede in the arme ▪ and weake bodies , it were not best to draw bloud out of the arme , but in the inferiour parts , as the thighes , hams , buttockes , and the hemeroydall veynes , specially if the partie bée melancholy : or else to applie ventoses to the loynes , buttockes , or hams , which may boldly bée vsed both before and after they doe appeare , either with scarification , or without ; as cause requireth , which is a speciall good meanes to draw that Ichorus matter from the interior to the exterior partes , but for sucking children it were best to apply bloud-suckers vnto any of the foresaide places , which is a thing that may be vsed with more ease then ventoses , neither doe I wish eyther of them to be vsed vnles necessity require it , which is when the matter lyeth lurking in the interior partes , not offering it selfe to appeare outwardly : otherwise I hold it better to leaue the whole worke vnto nature , specially in sucking children : for when wée sée that nature is ready or dooth endeuour to expell the malignity which is in the interior partes , to the exterior , which may be perceyued by reuiuing of the spirits and mitigating of the feauer : here we ought not to vse any meanes at all , but leaue the whole operation vnto nature , Giue nature leaue to work . which we must only help by kéeping the sicke body in a reasonable heate , being wrapte in a scarlet , stammell , or red cloth , which may not touch the skinne , but to haue a soft lynnen cloth betwixt them both , and then couer him with clothes in reasonable sort , and keepe him from the open ayre and the lighte , ( excepte a little ) and also from anger , vsing all the meanes you can to kéepe the sicke in quietnesse , and if the body bée verye costyue , then to giue an easie Glister .

Glister .

Take Barley , two handfuls . Violet leaues , one handfull .

Boyle these in thrée pintes of water , vntill halfe be consumed : & straine it , then take of the same decoction twelue ounces . Oyle of Violets , iij. ounces . Redde Sugar , and Butter , of either one ounce .

Mixe them together and giue it to the sicke warme , you may encrease or diminish the decoction or engredience according as the age of the party requireth : but if the sicke haue great heate , then may you adde one ounce or foure drams of Cassia newly drawen vnto it : and when he hath expelled the glister , then rub the armes , hands , legs , and féete , softly with a warme cloth , which is also a very good meanes to drawe that I chorus matter from the interior to the exterior parts , when all this is done , then if the body be enclined to sweate , you must further the same , by couering him with warme clothes , hauing a care that you lay not more on him then hée can well endure , for otherwise you may cause faintnesse and sownding , which are ill in this case , yet must you alwayes kéepe the sicke warme and suffer him not to sléepe , or permit very little vntill the pockes or measels doe appeare : and here you must haue a speciall care to preserue the eyes , eares , A good caueat nostrels , throate and lungs , that they bée not hurt or offended therewith , as hereafter shall be shewed you , which you must vse before he sweate , and also in the sweate if néede be .

Eyes how to preserue them .

Take Rose water , Plantine water , of either two ounces . Sumacke , two drammes .

Let them boyle together a little , or stand infused a night , then mixe therwith halfe a sponefull of the oyle made of the white of an egge , then wette two clothes fiue or sixe double therein , and then lay them vppon either eye one colde which must bée alwaies kept vppon the eyes vntill the pocks bée all come forth , and as they growe dry wette them in the same licoure againe and apply them , Paine burning in the eye , to helpe it . but if there bée greate paine and burning within the eye , then must you also put a droppe of this musselage ollowing into the eye : take quench séede halfe a dramme , bruse it a little , then let it stande infused in three ounces of Rose water a whole night , then straine it , and put one drop thereof into the eie thrée or foure times a day at least : or take of this water .

Take Rose water , two ounces . Womans milke , one ounce . Myrre finely poudered , vj. graynes .

Mixe them together , and vse it into the eye as before is shewed : this doth ease the paine , resisteth putrification and preserueth the sight .

For the eares , you must put a drop of oyle of Roses warm into them before he sweate . Eares to preserue them .

For the nostrels , cause him oftentimes to smell to the vapour of Rose vineger , Nostrels to preserue them . or else vineger , redde roses and sanders boyled together .

For the throate , let him alwaies holde a péece of white sugar candy in the mouth , Throate to preserue it . and as it melteth , swallow it downe .

For the lunges , giue the sicke oftentimes some syrrope of quinches , or conserue of Roses a little at a time .

Lungs to preserue them . And for his drinke the decocted water of barley boyled with a little lycoures is best ▪ béeing mixed with the Iuyce of a Limon , citron , pomegarnard , or rybes : which the sicke best liketh ▪ for either of them is very good .

Diete . And for his d●●te he must refrayne from all salt , fat , thicke and sharpe meates : and from all swéete thinges eyther in meate or drinke , his meate must be of a facile and easie digestion , and that hath a cooling property in it , as broth wherin borrage , buglos , sorrell and such like are boyled , and for ordinary drinke , small béere or ale is best .

Cap. 4. Teacheth what is to be done when the pocks or measels are slowe in comming forth .

NOw when you perceiue the pockes or measelles are slowe and slack in comming forth , then must you helpe nature , with cordials and by sweate to thrust it out from the interior and principall parts , vnto which purpose I haue alwaies founde this drink to be excellent good , here following .

R. Hordei mund. M. j. Lentium . excort . P. j. Ficuum . No. x. Fol. capil . v. Ana. M. ss Lactucae . Ana. M. ss Fol. acetosae . M. j. Florum cord . P. j. Semen fenic . ʒ . ij . Semen . 4. frigid . ma. ana . ʒ . ss. Aqua font . ll. iiij .

Boile all these together vntill a third part of the water bée consumed , and then strayne it .

℞ Decoct . col. ll.j. Succus granatorum vel ribes· ℥ . iiij .

Myxe all these together , and giue the sicke foure or sixe ounces thereof to drincke euerye Morninge and euening , which will prouoke sweate and expell the disease , and if you cannot get the iuyce of Pomegarnards , nor rybes , then you maie take so much of the syrrope of either of them .

Another good drinke to expell the pockes or measels .

Take a quarte of posset-ale , a handefull of sennell séede , boyle them together till a thirde parte bée ▪ consumed , then strayne it , and adde thereto one dramme of Triacle , and one scruple of Saffron in pouder : mixe them together , and giue two , thrée or foure ounces thereof to drinke euery morning and euening as cause requireth .

But if it bée for a strong and elderly body , you may giue anye of the expelling electuaries which are vsed to expell the plague , as in the first Chapter for the curing of the plague doth appeare .

But if the sicke bée so weake that hée cannot expell the disease in conuenient time , then were it good to epithemate the hart with this epithemation following .

Epjthemation for the heart .

℞ Aquarum ros. Melissae Card. b. Buglos . Morsus diaboli , Vini alb. Ana. ℥ . iiij . Aceti Ros. ℥ . ij . ss. Pul. Ros. rub . Trium santal . Cinamon . i. Elect. diamarg. frig. Ana. ʒ . ss. Mitridati , ℥ . j. Theriackae , ʒ . iiij .

Mixe all these together and let them boyle a little , and so warme Epithemat the harte : and when you haue done it then giue some expulsiue drinke or electuary as cause requireth , & then cause him to sweate vpon it , for by this meanes you shall obtaine your desire , by Gods permission .

Thirste how to quench it

Now if in the expelling of the poxe , the sicke be very thirstie and drie , then giue this Iulep to drinke , morning and euening , which I haue founde verie good .

Take . Syrrop of Iuiubes , Nenuphare , and Borrage of either foure drammes Take . Waters of borrage , Cichore , and Buglos , of either two ounces .

Mixe them together and giue the sicke one halfe thereof in the morning , and the rest at night , and cause him often times to lick of this mixture following .

Take . The conserues of Nenuphare Violets , and Borrage , of either sixe drammes . Manus christi made with Perles , foure drams Syrrop of Nenuphare , and Ribes , of either one ounce and halfe .

Mixe them together : and with a Licores sticke cleane scrapte and a little brused in the end let the sicke licke thereof .

Cap. 5. Sheweth what is to bee done when the pockes are all come out in the skinne .

FOr that often times the face and handes which is the beautie and delight of our bodies are often times disfigured thereby I will shew you what meanes I haue vsed with good and happie successe for preuenting therof : which is , you may not doe any thinge vnto them vntill they growe white , and that they are come to maturation , which when you perceiue , then with a Golden pinne or neédle , or for lacke therof a Copper pinne will serue , doe you open euery Pustule in the top , and so thrust out the matter therein very softly and gently , with a softe linnen cloth , and if you perceiue the places doe fil againe , then open them againe as you did first , for if you doe suffer the matter which is in them to remaine ouer long , then will it fret and corrode the flesh which is the cause of those pittes which remaine after the pockes are gone , as Auicen witnesseth : now when you haue thus done then annoynt the places with this oyntment following .

Take . Elder leaues , one handfull . Maregoldes , two handfuls . French Mallowes , one handfull . Barrowes morte or grease , sixe ounces .

First bruse the herbe in a morter and then boyle them with the grease in a pewter dish on a chafer and coles vntill the Iuice of the herbes be consumed , then straine it , and keépe it to your vse , the best time to make it is in the middle or later ende of May .

You must with a feather annoynt the places grieued , and as it drieth in , annoynt it againe , and so continue it often times , for this will soone drie them vp and keépe the place from pitting and holes , which remaine after the pockes are gone .

Also if you annoynt the pockes onely with Oyle of sweéte Almons newly drawen , three or foure times a day , which you must begin to doe so soone as the pockes are growne white and come to maturation , it will cure them without pittes or spottes , and easeth the payne and burning and helpeth excoriation .

Some doe onely often times wet the places with the Iuice of Marigoldes in the sommer season , and in winter the Iuice of the rootes will serue : and by that onely haue done well .

Mercuriales , doth greatly commend this decoction following , to be vsed , after the Pustules are opened .

Take . Barley , one little handfull , Red roses , a handfull . Red sanders , White sanders , of either one ounce . of either one ounce . Saffron , two scruples . Salte , foure drammes . Cleane water , three pounde .

Boyle all together vntill a third parte be consumed , you must often times touch the sores therewith , with a fine cloth wet therein , and as it drieth in , wet it againe , this in a short time will drie them vp .

I haue heard of some , which hauing not vsed any thinge at all , but suffering them to drie vp and fall of them selues , without picking or scratching , haue done very well , and not any pittes remayned after it .

When the pockes after they come out , doe not growe to maturation , how you shall helpe it .

Sometimes you shall finde that it will be a long time before those Pustules will come to maturation , or grow white : now here you must helpe nature to bring it to passe , which you may well doe with this decoction .

Take . Mallowes , one handfull , Figges , twelue in number . Water , a quarte .

Cut the Figges small and boyle it altogether , vntill halfe and more be consumed , and then wet a fine softe linnen cloth therein , and touch the place therewith often times , which will soone bring them to maturation , and also ease the payne ( if any be ) .

Vlceration to helpe it .

If in the declining of the pocks they chance to grow vnto Ulcerations , which is often times seene : then for the curing thereof vse this order here following .

Take . Tamarinds , Leaues of lentils Mirtils , Buddes of oken leaues , Red roses dried , of either a little handfull .

Boyle all these in a pottle of cleane water vntill halfe be consumed them straine it , and with a fine cloth wet therein do you wash and soke the place well , then wipe it dry with a soft and fine linnen cloth , and then cast into the place some of this pouder following .

Take Frankencense , Masticke , Sarcocoll , and red roses , of eyther two drams .

Make al these in fine pouder seuerally by themselues , then myxe them together , and so reserue it to thy vse .

A very good vnguent for the same purpose .

Take . Oyle of Roses , vj. ounces . White waxe , one ounce . Ceruse washt in rose and planten water , one ounce and halfe . Cleere turpentine , iij. drams . Camphire , halfe a dram .

You must first melte the waxe in the oyle , then put in the ceruse by little and little , alwaies stirring it with one iron spalter , and let it boyle in a gentle fire of charcoles vntill it grow blacke , but stir it continually in the boyling for feare least it burne : then take it from the fire and adde thereto the camphire , and lastly the terpentine : this vnguent is good both to mundifie , encarne , and sigillate .

For extreame heate and burning in the soles of the feet , and palmes of the hands .

Petrus Forestus , willeth to holde the handes and féete in warme water , and that will ease the paine and burning and may boldly be vsed without any danger .

For to help the sorenes and vlceration of the mouth .

Sometime it chanceth in this disease , that there is a great vlceration or excoriation in the mouth and iawes called Aptham , which if it bée not well looked vnto in time , will grow to be cankers : now to cure and preuent the same this gargaris is excellent good .

Take Barley water , a quarte . Red Roses dried , a little handfull . Sumach and rybes , of either two ounces . Iuyce of pomegarnards . iii. ounces .

Boyle them altogether sauing the iuyce of pomegarnards , vntill a thirde parte be consumed , then strayne it , & ad therto the iuyce of pomegarnards , with this you must often wash and gargarise , as also hold some thereof in the mouth a prety while .

To preuent sorenes of the mouth . Also to preuent the same , the kernel of a pomegarnard held in the mouth is very good , and so is it excellent good to lyck oftentimes some diamoron , or iuyce of a pomegarnard .

For inflammation and paine in the tonsiles and throate .

Take Planten water , a pinte . Syrrope of pomegarnards . ij . ounces .

Mixe them together , and gargarise therewith oftentimes beeing warme .

An other .

Take Nightshade water , a pinte , Seedes of quenches , iiii . scruples .

Boyle them together a little , then strayne it , and adde thereto two ounces of the syrrope of pomegarnards , and gargarise therewith oftentimes .

Howe to open the eye-lids that are fastened together with the pockes .

Sometime the ey-lids are so fast ioyned together that you cannot open them without great paine & danger : them to open them , you must foment or bath them wel with a decoction made of quench séed , mallows & water boiled together , wherin wet some fine linnen clothes fiue or sixe double & apply them warm & continue it vntil you may easily open them , and then if you perceiue any web or filme to be growen ouer the sight , then thrise a day do you put some pouder of white sugar candy into the eie , or if you list you may dissolue the sugar in rose water , & so vse it in the eie , which wil fret it away & preserue the sight .

A good Collery for a web or vngula in the eye .

Take The Iuyce of rew , Fennell , Salendine , Mallowes , of eyther two ounces .

Boyle them together in a vessell of glasse , or pewter , ouer a chafer with coales , and skumme away the froth that doeth rise thereof , then adde thereto the gaule of an Eyle , one dram and let them boile together a little , then put thereto 4. scruples of white coppres , and one scruple of verdegreace in fine pouder , boyle al together a little , then let it runne thorough a fine linnen cloth , and kéepe it in a glasse , you must euerye morning and euening put one droppe thereof into the eye , prouided that first due euacuation be made so wel by phlebetomy as purging .

Cap. 6 Teacheth how to helpe diuerse accidents which chance after the pockes are cured and gone .

For rednes of the face and hands after the pockes are 〈◊〉 how to helpe it .

Take Barley , Beanes , Lupins , of eyther one handfull .

Bruse them all in a morter grosly , and boyle them in thrée pintes of water vntill it grow thicke , like a ielly , then straine it and annointe the face and handes therewith thrée or foure times a day , for thrée or foure daies together , and then you must wet the face and hands so often times a day with this water following .

Take Vine leaues , two handfuls . Beane flowre , Dragons , Wilde-tansey , of eyther one handfull . Camphire , three drams . Two Calues feete . The pulpe of three limons . A pinte of rawe creame .

You must shred the hearbes small , as also the limons , and break & cut the calues féet small , then mixe them altogether , and distill it in a glasse still , also the water of May deawe is excellent good for any high colour or rednes of the face .

For spots in the face remayning when the pockes are gone .

Take the Iuice of Lymons and mixe it with a little bay Salte and touch the spots therewith often times in the daye for it is excellent good .

A good oyntment for the same purpose .

Take . Oyle of sweete Almons Oyle of white Lillies , of either one ounce . Capons grease , Goates tallowe , of either foure drammes . Sarcocoll , halfe a dramme . Floure of Ryce , and of Lupins , of either one dramme . Litharge of golde one dramme and halfe . Rootes of Brionie , and of yrtios , of either one scruple . Sugar candie white , one dramme .

Make pouder of all those that may be brought in pouder and searce it through a sarge , then put them all in a morter together and labour them with a pestle , and in the working doe you put the waters of Roses , beane floure , and of white Lillies , of either a great sponefull , which must be put in by little and little in the working of it , and so labour them all together vntill it come to an vnguent .

You must euery euening annoynt the face therewith , or handes ▪ and in the morning wash it away in the water wherin Barley , Wheate branne , and the seede of Mallowes hath béene boylde .

For holes remayning when the small pockes are gone .

For helping of this accident , I haue vsed many things , yet neuer coulde finde any thing that did perfectly content me , but the best meanes that I haue tried , is one day to wash the place with the distilled water of strong Uinegar , and the next day with the water wherein Branne and Mallowes haue bene boylde , and continue this order twentie dayes , or a month together .

Running of the eares how to helpe it .

Somtimes the eares do runne very much in this disease , which in any wise you may not go about to stop in the beginning , but suffer it so to runne , and the eares to remaine open : but if there be great payne in them , Payne in the eares . then wet a spunge in warme water and Oyle of roses mixte together , and laye it vpon the eares .

For stopping of the nostrels , to helpe it .

Sometimes the Nostrels are greatly pestred by stopping them with the pockes growing in them , which doth oftentimes cause vlceration in them , therefore to preuent the same take .

Red rose , and planten , of either one handfull . Mirre in pouder , halfe an ounce .

Boyle all these in a quarte of water vntill halfe be consumed , and so being warme cause the sicke to drawe the fume thereof into his Nostrels often times .

Also if the sicke doth often times smell vnto Uinegar , it is good .

For horsenes , remayning when the pockes are gone .

Take . Licores , Sebesten , Iuiubes , of either two ounces . Fat Figges , foure ounces . Cleane water , foure pintes ,

Boyle all these together vntill halfe be consumed , then strayne it , and giue one sponefull thereof to the sicke often times , and it helpeth .

For filthie and moyste scabbes , after the pockes are gone .

Take . Lapis calaminaris , Litharge of golde , and of siluer . of either two drammes . Quicke brimstone and Ceruse , of either two drammes .

Bring all these in fine pouder , and then labour them in a morter with so much Barrowes mort or grease as shal be sufficient to make vp an vnguentum and annoynt the place therewith euery morning and euening .

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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 from 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.

F. 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 when 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 when 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 ,

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