The signs that do declare a person to be infected with the PESTILENCE. 1 GReat pain and heaviness in the head. 2 Great heat within the body, and the outward parts cold, and ready to shake, being thirsty and dry. 3 Some pain and difficulty in breathing. 4 Great desire to sleep, and yet cannot, and sometime is vexed for want of sleep. 5 Swelling in the stomach with much pain. 6 divers and heavy looks of the eyes, seeing all things of one colour, as green or yellow, and the eyes changed in their colours. 7 Loss of appetite, unsavoury taste, bitterness of the mouth, sour and stinking. 8 Wambling of the stomach, and a desire to vomit, and sometime vomiting humours, bitter, and of diverse colours. 9 Heaviness and dulness in all the body, and a faintness and weakness in all the limbs. 10 Risings in the neck, under the arm, or in the flank, or in some other part of the body. Preseruatives against this Disease. Eat every morning as much as the kernel of a Nut▪ of this Electuary which I shall keep always ready for you; or of Treacle mixed with Conserves of Roses, or Dioscordium, the quantity of two white Peason. Likewise eat something every morning before you go abroad, as Butter, Walnuts, Rue, a Potcht-egge with vinegar, or the like. Let your chambers be ayred morning & evening with good fires, wherein put luniper, Frankincense, Storax, Bay-leaves, Vinegar, Rose-water, Rosin, Turpentine, Pitch, Tar, or Brimstone. When you go abroad, chew in your mouth, the root of Angelica, Gentian, ●…edoarie, Turmentill, or the like. Also I have prepared Tablets to wear about your neck, of which I did see great experience the last great Sickness: As also Pomanders to smell too. Remedies after a person is infected. 1 FIrst, be careful with all speed to use remedies betimes, for delay in this sickness is dangerous. 2 Secondly, if the sickness begin hot with pain in the head, and the party be of a full body let him be let blood in the Liver vain in the right arm, except he feel any soreness, then let him bleed in that arm on the side grieved. 3 Thirdly, four hours after if he be not let blood, let him take ten grains; if it be a Child under 7. years old, then take but 5. grains, of this red powder in a little Methridatam, or in the pap of an Apple, and one hour after, drink some possit-Ale, made with Medesweet and Marigold flowers: keep the bed, and sweat two or three hours, according to strength, but refrain from sleep next day let him take white powder, one dram, in the possit▪ drink, and sweat as before▪ do this three, four, and five days: But be sure he go to stool once a day. In the steed of the powders, you may take Mithridate one dram and a half▪ of the best London Treacle one dram; mix them with Carduus Benedictus, or Angelica, or Scabious waters, or the possit-drinke before mentioned, and sweat well, as before. The Methridatam or London▪ Treacle, you may have the best that I know, at the sign of the Angel, over against the great Conduit in Cheapside, Iames Rand. 4 Fourthly, once in four or five hours, take Broth or Mase-Ale in possit-drinke, wherein boil as before. If he be very dry, let him take of Syrup of Endive and Sorrel, of each three ounces; water of Roses and bugloss, of each one ounce, Syrup of Lemons, two ounces; mix them, and let him take as often as he is dry one spoonful. 5 Fiftly, if any sore or botch appear, use means with speed to draw it forth: as this is very good. Take a great Onion, and cut off the head, and make a hollow place in the middle▪ fill that full of good Treacle, put on the head again, and roast it in the embers: when it is soft roasted peel it, and stamp it in a mortar, & lay it hot unto the sore, and renew it fresh once in six hours: Or take this Poultes, two Lily-roots, Mallows two handfuls, cut and bruise them, Linseed, four spoonfuls beaten; boil these in water till they be soft & thick, then put to them, 12. Figs, Raisins sliced and stoned one handful, mix & work these with the other, in a mortar, & put to them oil of Camomile three spoonfuls, warm it, & with a cloth bind it on the sore, shift this twice a day When the sore is broken use this, Turpentine one ounce, & the yolk of an egg, oil of S. john. Wort, Methridatam, of each half a dram, mix all these together, & lay it on the sore, this will heal it 6 Sixtly, when they are well, before they go abroad, take a purge. FINIS.