For ayring your Roomes .

Ayre your seueral taimes with Charcōle fiers , made in stone pans or Chasingdishes , and not in Chimneys : set your pans in the middle of the Roomes : ayre euery roome once a wéeke ( at the least ) and put into your fire a little quantity of Frankinsence , Iuniper , dryed Rosemary , or of Bay-leaues .

A Fume of great experience .

Take Rosemary , and put it into strong Vineger , steepe it in a Bason or bowle heat foure or fiue Fl●ntstones red hot and cast them into the Vineger and so let the Fume ascend into the middle of euery roome .

Another .

Ayre your apparrell in the same sort , and with the same fume : & beare in your hands some handkercher , Spunge , or Cloth , wetted in the iuyce of Wormwood , Hearbegrace , and red Rose-vineger , mixt together .

To smell to .

The roote of Enula Campna stéeped in vineger & lapped in a handkercher , is a speciall thing to smel vnto , if you come where the sickenes is .

Another .

Hearbgrace , and wormewood stéeped in vineger , in some powter péece close slopt , is to be vsed in like sort .

To tast or chewe in the mouth .

The roote of Angelica , Setwall , Gencian , Valerian , or Sinamond , is aspeciall preseruatiue against the plague , being chewed in the mouth .

To eate .

Eate Sorrell steeped in vineger , in the morning fasting , with a litle bread and butter , Sorrell sauce is also very holsome against the same .

Another .

Take the kernell of a walnut , mince it with thrée or foure leaues of Hearbgrace , and a corne or two of Salt : then put it into a Figge , warme it and eate it fasting : fast thrée houres after , and take it twice a wéek . A speciall thing to eate , found very comfortable .

Take strong red Rose-Vineger , sprinkle it vpon a tost of white bread , spreade Butter thereon , and then cast the powder of Cinamond vpon it , & eate it fasting : or eate bread and butter with Hearbgrace .

Another .

Giue to the diseased for their ordinary foode , some broth made with a neck of Mutton : boyled with a good quantity of Burridge , Sorrell , and Buglosse .

To comfort the stomacke .

Aleberries are very comfortable , made with Cloues , Mace , Nutmegs , Saunders , Ginney grains , and such like .

To drinke .

Take Rue , Wormewood , and Scabias , stéepe it in Ale a whole night , & drinke it fasting euery morning .

Another .

Take the water of Carduns Benedictus , or Angelica , and mixe it with Methridatum ,

Another .

The roote of Enula Campana , beaten to powder , is a speciall remedy against the plague , being drunke fasting .

Another .

Drinke the powder of Turmentill , in Sorrell or Scabias water .

Another .

If any féele themseules already infected , take Angelica-water mixt with Methridatum , drinke it off , then goe to bed and sweat thereon .

Another to drinke .

Take a spooneful of Bayberries , and huske them before they be dry , heat them to powder , and drinke it in good stale Ale or Béere , or in white wine : then sweat vpon it , and forbeare to sleepe .

to procure Sweat .

Take Posset-Ale sodden with Sorrell , and Burridge , mixt with Triacle of Diatesseron and get you to your naked bed .

A speciall preseruatiue against the Plague .

Take of the roote of great Valerian , a quarter of an ounce : of Sorrell a handfull : an ounce of the roote of Butter-bur : boyle them in running water , from a quart to a pint , two spoonefulls of Vineger to it , and let the patient drinke it so hot as hee may , and then sweat vpon it .

An other speciall Preseruatiue .

Take an Egge , make a hole in the top of it , take out the white and the yolke , and fill the shell onelye with Saffron , rost the shel and Saffron togither , in embers of Charcoales , vntil the shell waxe yeallow : then beat shell and altogether in a marter , with halfe a spooneful of Mustard-séed : Now so soone as any suspition is had of infection , dissolue the weight of a French crown in ten spoonefuls of posset-Ale , drinke it luke warme , and sweat vpon it in your naked bed .

An other Preseruatiue to be distilled .

Take halfe a hundred gréene Walnuts beeing new taken off as they hang gréene on the trée , and a pound of the inner Barke of an Ash-trée : then take Petimortell , Housleeke , Scabias , & Veruin , of each a handfull Saffron halfe an ounce , and mince al these smal together : then put a pottle of the strongest Vineger on them boile them ouer a soft fire in a close pot , and after distill them in a limbecke : keep the distilled water , and giue the Patient two ounces to drinke therof , foure times in four & twenty-houres , when he is in his naked bed , & let him be prouoked to sweat , and he shall finde great ease thereby .

If the Patient be bound in the body .

Take a suppositor made with a little boiled Hunny , & a litle powder of Salt : let this be put vp at the fundament with a litle butter vntill it moue him to the stoole .

Drinke for ordinary Dyet .

So néere as you can let the patients ordinary drinke be good finall ale of eight daies olde .

For Vomitting .

Vomitting is better then bleeding in this case and therefore prouoke to vomit so neere as you can .

To prouoke Vomit .

Take thrée leaues of Castrabecca , stampe it , and drinke it in Rennish wine , ale , or posset ale .

Another .

A litle quantity of 〈◊〉 Helibor , grated and drunke in the like fort procureth vomit .

A speciall Vomit .

Take two ounces of Oyle of Walunts , a spoonefull of the iuyce of Celandine , and halfe a spoonefull of the iuyce of Reddish rootes : Let not the party sleep for two houres after , and in so dooing it is better then any purging .

For purging .

If the party be full of grosse humors , let him blood , immediately vpon the right arme , on the Liuer vein or on the median veyn , in the same arm : so as no sore appeare the first day .

A very wholsome purge .

Put into the pap of an apple , a sixepennie weight of Aloes , and so take it : or the pils of Rufus .

A wholsome water to be distilled .

Steep sorrell in vineger , foure and twentie houres , then take it out and drie it with a linen doth , then still it in a Limbecke , drinke foure spoonfuls with a little sugar , then walke vpon it till you sweat if you may : if not , keep your bed and sweat vpon it . Vse this before supper on anie euening .

If the patient happen to be troubled with any swellings , Botches , Carbuncles , or Gods tokens : let him sweat moderatelie now and then .

Outward medicines to ripen the sore .

Take the roote of a white Lillie , roast it in a good handfull of sorrell , stampe it and applie it thereto very hot , let it lie four and twentie houres , and it wil break the sore ,

Another .

Take of old swines-grease salted , two ounces , with the yolke of an egge , and two handfulles of Scabias , stampe them togither , and laie it warme to the sore .

Another .

Take a small quantitie of leauen , a handful of mallowes , a little quantitie of Scabias , cut a white Onion into pieces , with halfe a dozen heads of garlicke , boile these together in running water , make a poullus of it and then lay it hot to the sore .

Another .

The like may be made of two handfuls of Valerian , three rootes of Danwort , and a handfull of smalledge , seeth them in shéepes suet and Rose water , with a few crums of bread , and apply it hot to the sore .

Another .

Take a hot Loafe , new taken forth of the Ouen , apply it to the sore , and it will doubtlesse breake the same but afterward bury the same loafe déep inough in the ground , for feare of any infection : for if either dog or any other thing do féede thereon it , will infect a great many .

Other Obseruations .

Let the sicke and infected persons bee seperated and kept from the whole , vntill the sore be healed : but generally let them be kept within the space of a month .

For a Fume .

Take a new burnt Bricke , & heate it red hote , then put it into a Bason of Vineger , and let the fume therof ascend into your houses .

For Ayring Apparrell .

Let the apparrel of the diseased persons , be wel and often washed , be it linnen or wollen : or let it be ayred in the Sunne , or ouer pans of fire , or ouer a Chasing-dish of Coales , & fume the same with Frankensence Iuniper , or dryed Rose-mary .

A perfect good Plaister for the Cure of the sore after it is broken .

Take vnwróght Waxe , white Turpentine , the yolke of an Egge , a little fresh butter , & a quantity of English honny , boile all these together to a salue , and apply it to the sore , béeing thin spread vpon a cloth , in manner of an ordinarie Playster .

Additions . To preserue from the Infection of the Plague .

Take Garlicke péele it and mince it small , put it into new milke and eate it fasting .

To take the infection from a house infected .

Take large Oynions , péele them , and lay thrée or foure of them vpon the ground , let them lie ten daies , & those pieled Oynions will gather all the infection into them that is one of those Roomes : but burie these Oynions afterward déepe in the ground .

Another .

Take new milke and set it in a Bason in the middle of the infected Roomes , and the milke will draw the infectious vapour into it , letting it stand two daies in the saide Roome ,

Against the new burning Feuer .

If the Patient be in a great heat as most commonly they wil , take of faire running water a prety quantity put it on a Chasingdish of Coles , then put thereinto a good quantity of Saunders beaten to powder : and let it boyle halfe an houre betwene two dishes : that done put a couple of soft linnen clothes into the dish , wet the clothes well in water and Saunders , and apply the same so hote as you can suffer it to your bely .

To drinke for the whot Feuer .

Take two handfull of Sorrell , and a handfull of Violet leaues with a bunch of sowre Graps , beat them together stalkes and all : then straine it into Butter-milke , then make a posset of the same Butter-milke , and let the Patient drinke thereof so much as he will .

To procuresleepe to the sicke Persons that are diseased either with the Plague or the hote Feuer .

Take of a womans Breast-milke a good quantiti , put therunto of the like quantity of Aqua-vite , stir them well together , and moysten therewith the Temples of the Patient and his Nosthrils , lay it on with some feather , or some fine thin ragge .

Butter-milke in this contagious time is generally holsome to be eaten , and is a good Preseruatiue against either the Plague or the pestilent Feuer .