royal shield dieu. ET. MON. DROIT royal shield dieu ET MON DROIT At the Court at White-Hall the 13th of May, 1665. BY the Lords of His Majesties most Honourable Privy Council, appointed a committee for prevention of the spreading of the Infection of the Plague, &c. Present Lord Chamberlain, Earl of Bath, Mr. Treasurer, Mr. Vice-Chamberlain, Mr. Secretary morris. HIs Majesty out of His indulgent and most gracious Care for preservation of His People, having been pleased to constitute and appoint us, and others of the Lords of His Privy Council, a Committee, to consider of such ways and means as shall be conceived most proper and expedient to prevent the spreading and increase of the Infection of the Plague,( in pursuance of former Precedents In the Reign of His most Royal Father of ever blessed memory) hath given us in Command, and accordingly we do hereby pray and require you the President and Society of the college of Physicians of the City of London, to inspect the former Rules given by the Physicians of former times, and imprinted for the public benefit; And that you take care to review the said former Book touching Medicines against the Infection, and to add unto, and alter the same, as you shall find the present times and occasions to require. And to cause such your Directions to be as speedily prepared and printed as possible may be. Edw. Walker. Certain necessary DIRECTIONS, As well For the Cure OF THE PLAGUE, As for preventing the INFECTION: WITH Many easy Medicines of small Charge, very profitable to His Majesties Subjects. Set down by the college of Physicians. By the Kings Majesties special Command. LONDON, Printed by John Bill and Christopher Barker, Printers to the Kings most Excellent Majesty. 1665. To the Right Honourable, the Lords of His Majesties most Honourable Privy Council, appointed a Committee for prevention of the spreading of the Infection of the Plague, &c. IN obedience to your Lordships Order of May 13. 1665. We the President and college of Physicians of London, His Majesties most Dutiful and Loyal Subjects, have diligently met together, and seriously perused our former Books of Advice and Directions for the Cure of the Plague, and preventing the Infection; and have made such Additions and Alterations, as we judged most requisite for the present times and occasions: wherein we have been tender of omitting many Forms and Prescripts, which by reason of the plainness and homeliness of them, we looked upon as very obnoxious to be censured and vilified, especially by Persons pretending to rare Preparations and Secrets; We considering that our Predecessors,( amongst whom were then the most eminent Physicians in England, and such as had experience of Plagues in their times, raging to a far greater height than through Gods mercy any hath done since) might see just cause, upon their experience and success to bring them in. We have omitted onely such particulars, as clearly appeared unto us superfluous; being either provided for by Laws or Orders of the higher Powers, or unpracticable, or abundantly and to better advantage supplied by others in the same kind here published. We have added such Remedies, as either upon our own Experience, or upon the testimony of Authors of the best Credit, and most versed in the Cure of the Plague, have proved successful, and such as might be easiest understood, procured and prepared, most of them at little charge, for the Poor. This is what we could do for the time, to answer the present occasion, as we understood it, and as our predecessors had done: Humbly beseeching your Lordships, that we may not be measured thereby, as if it were all wherein we are capable to serve His Majesty upon this account, in Order to the Lives and Healths of His Subjects: for we are upon, and do farther design and intend more accurate and elaborate Preparations and Compositions, aswell chemical as others( to which there may need, and shall not be wanting our personal inspection and care, as the case shall require) for preservation from, and cure of this Plague, if it shall please GOD to suffer it to increase amongst us, and more appropriate, according as we shall farther discover the peculiar Nature and Condition of the malignity: And not onely in relation to that, but other Diseases of greatest Difficulty and Danger. This is the account we have at present most humbly to present unto your Lordships. Dated at our Colledge-house London, the 25th. day of May 1665. An Advice set down by the college of Physicians by His Majesties special Command, containing certain necessary Directions, as well for the Cure of the Plague, as for preventing the Infection; with many easy Medicines, and of small charge, the Use whereof may be very profitable to His Majesties Subjects. I. Doctors, Apothecaries, and chirurgeons. THe Church-Orders for Prayers being first observed as in former times, It might be desired, that by the Government of the City there he appointed six or four Doctors at least, who may apply themselves to the Cure of the Infected; and that these Doctors be Stripendiaries to the City for their lives; and that to each Doctor there he assigned two Apothecaries and three Chrirurgions, who are also to be stipended by the City; that so due and true care may be taken in all things, that the People perish not without help, and that the Infection spread not, while none take particular care to resist it, as in Paris, Venice, and Padua, and many other Cities. And if any Doctor, Apothecary, or chirurgeon stipended by the City, shall happen to die in the service of the Attendance of the Plague, then their Widows surviving shall have their Pensions during their lives. II. Prevention of propagating the Infection from place to place. AS the provision already made by Authority, upon occasion, of prohibiting Persons and Goods coming from foreign Countreys and Places infected, to be landed for forty days, is must rational, for preventing the bringing in of the Contagion from any such Places; so it is advisable, that some suitable provision be made in relation to Persons within the Kingdom, who may remove or travail from Places much infected, to sound: as, That none might travail without Certificate of Health; that Persons justly suspected might not be suffered to enter such Places free from Infection, but speedily sent away, or kept in some House or Houses set apart to reteive such persons( with accommodation of necessaries) for forty or thirty days at least, till their soundness might appear; And that any Goods coming from the like Places might be opened and aired, before received into Houses free and clear. III. Prevention of dispersing the Contagion amongst Persons. IT is advisable, That all néedless Concourses of People be prohibited; That the Pror be reliebed and set at work, and beggars not suffered to go about; That all sale of corrupt Provision for Food be restrained; That streets and Houses be as diligently and tarefully as may be, kept clean; the streets washed and cooled as much as may be, by the plentiful running of the Conduits and Water otherwise procured. And it were to be wished, that Vaults for Privies might be emptied onely in Winter: and that Soap-suds and liquors wherein foul Clothes are washed or rinsed, might, as much as may be, be otherwise conveyed, than through the streets and Gutters, or washed away with plenty of water. It were also to be wished, that the Slaughter-houses were utterly put from out the Liverties of the City, being in themselves very offensive; And that Funnels in Church-vaults be considered of, and the depth of Graves, and the putting of Quick-Lime into them, and the infected buried without the City. IV. To be cautelous upon any suspicion. IT is to be presumed, because every one desireth his own liberty, that none will give notice of any suspicion of the Plague against themselves; wherefore that must be the Overséers care, upon any notice or suspicion of Infection, by the help of the doctors, chirurgeons, Réepers or Searchers, to find out the truth thereof, and so to proceed accordingly, but not to depend upon the testimony of Women-searchers alone. V. Directions for the Searchers. 1. THey are to take notice whether there be any Swellings, Risings, or Botch under the Ear, about the Neck, on either Side, or under the Arm-pits of either Side, or the Gruins, and of its hardness, and whether broken or unbroken. 2. Whether there be any Blains which may rise in any part of the Body in the form of a Blister, much bigger than the Small Pox, of a straw-colour or livid colour, which latter is the worse; either of them hath a reddish Circuit, something swollen round about it, which Circuit remains after the Blister is broken, encompassing the Sore. 3. Whether there be any Carbuncle, which is something like the Blain, but more fiery and corrosive, easily eating deep into the flesh, and sometimes having a black crust upon it, but always compassed about with a very fiery read( or livid) flat and hard tumour, about a finger-breadth more or less: this and the Blain may appear in any part of the Body. 4. Whether there be any Tokens, which are spots arising upon the skin, chiefly about the Breast & Back, but sometimes also in other parts; their colour is something various, sometimes more reddish, sometimes inclining a little toward a faint blue, and sometimes brownish mixed with blue; the read ones have often a purple-tircle about them, the brownish, a reddish. 5. Whether the neck and other limbs are rigid or stiff, or more flexible and limber than in other dead bodies. VI. The care to be taken when a House is visited. THat upon the discovery of the Infection in any House, there be presently means used to preserve the Whole, as well as to cure the Infected: And that no sick person be removed out of any house, though to another of his own, without notice thereof to be given to the Overseers, and to be by them approved; or if the whole be to be removed, that notice be given to the Overseers of their remove, and that caution be given that they shall not wander about till they be sound. The house that is known to be Infected, though none be dead therein, to be shut up, and carefully kept watched by more trusty men then ordinary Warders, till a time after the Party be well recovered, and that time to be forty days at the least, or rather remove them all immediately to the Pesthouses. VII. Caution about Apparel and householdstuff. THat no Apparel or householdstuff be removed, or fold out of the infected house, for six moneths after the infection is ceased in the house; And that all the Brokers, and inferior criers for Apparel be restrained in that behalf, and such Apparel or householdstuff to be Aired and Fumed. VIII. Correction of the Air. FIres made in the Streets often, and good Fires kept in and about the Houses of such as are visired, and their Neighbours, may correct the infectious Air; as also frequent discharging of Guns. Also Fumes of these following materials; Rosin, Pitch, tar, Turpentine, Frankincense, Myrxhe, Amber; The woods of juniper, Cypress, Cedar; The leaves of Bays, Rosemary; to which, especially to the less grateful sensed, may be added somewhat of Labdanum, Storax, Benzoin, Lignum aloes: one or more of these, as they are at hand, or may be procured, are to be put upon Coals and consumed with the least flamme that may be, in Rooms, Houses, Churches, or other places. Brimstone burnt plentifully in any room or place, though ill to be endured for the present, may effectually correct the Air for the future. Vapours from vinegar exhaled in any room, may have the like efficacy; especially after it hath been impregnated, by infusing or steeping in it any one or more of these Ingredients; Wormwood, Angelica, Masterwort, Bay-leaves, Rosemary, Rue, Sage, Scordium, or Water-germander, Valerium, or Setwall-root, zedoary, camphor. To which vinegar also, to render it less ungrateful, may be added rose-water, to a fourth or third part: These are cooler, and so more proper for hot seasons. The vapour of vinegar raised by staking of Lime in it, may effectually correct the Air near about it. Take Salt-perer, Amber, Brimstone, of each two parts, of juniper one part; mix them in a powder, put thereof upon a read hot iron, or coals, a little at once. IX. Perfuming of Apparel. THis also may preserve from infection, being done by some of the more grateful of the dry fumes of the gums, &c. before mentioned to be burnt; and between whiles frequent shifting and airing of apparel may be, especially by the Fire, or in the Sun, the more effectual; this to be done the rather, if one hath come in danger of infection. X. By carrying about of Perfumes. SUch as are to go abroad, shall do well to carry Rue, Angelica, Masterwort, myrrh, Scordium, or Water-germander, Wormwood, Valerian, or Setwall-root, Virginian-snake-root, or zedoary in their hands to smell to; and of those they may hold or chew a little in their mouths as they go in the streets; They may anoint their Nostrils with oil of Amber, or Balsam of Sulphur; especially if they be afraid of any place: Fear, as well as Presumption, being hurtful. Take Rue one handful, stamp it in a mortar, put thereto vinegar enough to moisten it, mix them well, then strain out the juice, wet a piece of sponge, or a toast of brown bread therein, tie it in a thin cloth, bear it about to smell to. Take the root of Angelica beaten grolly, the weight of six pence, of Rue, and Wormwood, of each the weight of four pence, Setwall the weight of three pence; bruise these, then steep them in a little Wine-Vineger, tie them in a linen cloth, which they may carry in their hands, or put it into a juniper box full of holes to smell to. XI. Or they may use this Pomander. TAke Angelica, Rue, zedoary, of each half a dram, myrrh two drams, camphor six grains, Wax and Labdanum of each two drams, more or less, as shall be thought fit to mix with the other things; make hereof a ball to carry about you; you may easily make a hole in it, and so wear it about your neck with a string. XII. The richer sort may make use of this Pomander. TAke Citron-pills, Angelica-seeds, Zedoary, Red-rose-leaves, of each half a dram, yellow Saunders, Lignum aloes, of each one scruple, Galliae Moschatae four scruples, Storax, Benzoin, of each one dram, camphor six grains, Labdanum three drams, Gum-Tragacanth dissolved in rose-water, enough to make it up into a Pomander, put thereto six drops of Spirit of Roses, enclose it in an Ivory-box, or wear it about your neck. XIII. By inward Medicines. LEt none go Fasting forth, every one according as they can procure, let them take some such thing as may resist putrefaction. Some may take garlic with Butter, a Clove, two or three, according as it shall agree with their bodies; some may take fasting, some of the Electuary with Figs and Rue hereafter expressed: some may use London-Treacle, the weight of eight pence in the morning, taking more or less, according to the age of the party; after one hour let them eat some other breakfast, as Bread and Butter with some leaves of Rue or Sage moistened with vinegar, and in the heat of Summer of Sorrel or Woodsorrel. Pure water with so much salt as may be but tasted, or well born; or with flower of Brimstone, or common Brimstone voyl'd in it, an ounce in three pints, to a quart; a draft being taken every morning, hath proved effectual and successful. To steep Rue, Wormwood, or Sage all night in their drink, and to drink a good draft in the morning fasting, is very wholesome, or to drink a draft of such drink after the taking of any of the preservarives will be very good. Take of Sage bruised well, two handfuls, of Wormwood one handful, of Rue half a handful, put them into a Iugg of four quarts, put to them of mildred Beer ready to drink four quarts; in the morning let every one of the family drink a draft of it fasting, together eating after it Bread and Butter. Take of the roots of Petasitis, or Butterburre six ounces, roots of Elecampane, Masterwort, and Angelica, of each an ounce and balfe, leaves of Meadow-sweet, Scordium, balm, of each two handfuls, Rue and Wormwood of each one handful, Citron( or Limon) peel, Qutmeg, of each half an ounce, of Iuniper-berries ripe and pulpey two ounces, of Carduus seed one ounce; All duly prepared by cutting and bruifing, are to be mixed and put into a bag, to infuse in six gallons of Ale or Beer, whereof may be drunk a draft every morning and evening; and at meals it may be mingled with ordinary Beer. Take of the Conserve of Wood-forrel two ounces, of diascord two drams, of the flower of Brimstone very finely ground one dram, of Saffron thrce grains, of Syrup of Wood-sorrel as much as is sufficient to make an Electuary: For prevention, take a dram every morning fasting, during the imminent danger: Let the Party drink after it a draft of white-wine posset, with a spoonful and half of the Plague-water in it in bed, or of this water following. Take of Angelica, Carduus benedictus, Sage, Scordium, Petasitis, or Butter-burre, Baume, and Plantain, of each four handfuls, of Setwall and Borage of each two handfuls, of Mint one handful; of white-Wine two quarts; distill them in a could Still, and preserve the water for use. XIV. The Plague-water of Mathias, or, Aqua Epidemica. TAke the roots of Tormentil, Angelica, Peony, zedoary, Liquorish, Elecampane, of each half an ounce, the leaves of Sage, Scordium, Celandine, Rue, Rosemary, Wormwood, Ros solis, Mugwort, Burner, Dragons, Stabious, Agrimony, Baum, Carduus, Betony, Centery the less, Marygolds leaves and flowers, of each one handful; Let them all be cut, bruised, and infused three days in eight pints of white-wine in the month of May, and distilled. Take of London-Treacle two ounces, of Conserve of Wood-sorrel three ounces, of the temperate Cordial species half an ounce, of syrup of lemons enough to make all an Electuary: Of this may be taken a dram and half for prevention, and the double quantity for curz. Steep Iuniper-berries in Vineger for a night, let the Vineger be exhaled off; eat thereof at pleasure. An Electuary of Bole-Armeniack, as much as you please; or of the powders whereof the Treatle Diatesseron is made, mixed up with syrup of Vineger; or an Electuary of zedoary, with syrup of lemons, are easily made, and very effectual, being taken as the former. In all Summer-plagues it shall be good to use Sorrel-sawce to be eaten in the morning with bread, and in the fall of the Leaf to use the juice of Barbaries with bread also. XV. Mithridates his Medicine of Figs. TAke of good Figs, and Walnut-kernels, of each twenty four, Rue picked two handfuls, of Salt half an ounce or somewhat better: First stamp your figs and Walnuts well together in a stone-morter, then add your Rue, and last of all your Salt, mix them exceeding well; take of this mixture every morning fasting, the weight of fixtéen pence, to children and weak bodies less. XVI. Or this will be effectual also. TAke twenty Walnuts, pill them, Figs fifteen, Rue a good handful, Tormentil-roots three drame, Bole-Armoniack a dram and a half. First stamp your roots, then your Figs and Seeds, then add your Walnuts, then put to your Rue and Bole; and with them put thereto six drams of London-Treacle, and two or three spoonfuls of Wine-vineger, mix them well in a stonemorter, and take of this every morning the quantity of a good Qutmeg fasting: They that have cause to go much abroad, may take as much more in the evening two bours before supper. Take of Figs half a pound, of Walnutkernels two ounces, of dried Rue-leaves one ounce, of Salt half an ounce, of the Root of Petasitis six drams, Contrayerva-Root, Virginian Snake-root, Salt of Prunella, of each a dram and half, of Zadoarie a dram, of Sugar dissolved in Vineger to a syrup enough to make all into an Electuary. Hereof may be taken a Dram or the quantity of a Nutmeg every morning and evening. XVII. For Women with child, Children, and such as cannot take bitter things, use this. TAke Conserve of Red-Roses, Conserve of Wood-Sorrel, of each two ounces, Conserves of Borage, of Sage-flowers, of each fix drams, Bole-Armoniack, shavings of Harts-horn, Sorrel-séeds, of each two drams, yellow or white Saunders half a dram, Saffron one scruple, syrup of Wood-Sorrel, enough to make it a moist Electuary; mix them well, take so much as a chestnut at a time, once or twice a day, as you shall find cause. XVIII. For the richer sort. TAke the shavings of sparts-horn, of Pearl, of Coral, Tormentil-roots, zedoary, true Terra Sigillata, of each one dram, Citron-pills, yellow, white and read Saunders, of each half a dram, white Amber, Hyacinth-stone prepared, of each two scruples, Bezoar-stone of the East, Unicorns horn, of each four and twenty grains, Citron and Orange péels candied, of each three drams, Lignum Aloes one scruple, white Sugar-candie twice the weight of all the cest; mix them well, being made into a Dredge-powder. Take the weight of twelve-pence at a time every morning fasting, and also in the evening about five a clock, or an hour before supper. With these Powders and Sugar there may be made Lozenges, or Manus Christi's, and with convenient Conserves they may be made into Electuaries. All which, and many more for their health, they may have by the advice and directions of their own Physicians: or, as we hope, Physicians will not be wanting to direct them as they may have need, to the Poor for charity sake. They may also use Bezoar-water, or Treacle-water distilled, compounded by the Physicians of London, and known by the name of Aqua Theriacalis stillatitia, which they may use simply; or they may mix them also with all their Antidotes, as occasion shall require. Take of Amber-gryse a scruple, dissolve it in four ounces of the best Spirit of Sack; take hereof every morning a scruple, with crumbs of White-bread and sugar of Roses. Balsam of Sulphur to four or five drops, or Elixir Proprietatis to twenty or thirty drops, in wine, or water and sugar, may be effectual. The use of London-Treacle is good, both to preserve from the Sickness, as also to cure the Sick, being taken upon the first apprehension in a greater quantity, as to a man two drams, but less to a weak body, or a child, in Carduus or Dragonwater. Take of the finest clear Aloes you can buy, of Cinnamon, of Myrrbe, of each of these the weight of three French Crowns, or of Two and twenty pence of our Money, of Cloves, Mace, Lignum Aloes, of mastic, of Bole-Driental, of each of these half an ounce; mingle them together, and beat them into a very fine Powder, of the which take every morning fasting the weight of a Groat in White-wine deluyed with water. Take a dry Fig, and open it, and put the kernel of a Walnut into the same, being cut very small, three or four Leaves of Rue, commonly called sperb-Grate, a corn of Salt; then roast the Fig and eat it warm, fast three or four hours after it, and use this twice in the week. Take the Powder of Tormentil the weight of six pence, with Sorrel or Scabious-water in Summer, and in the Winter with the water of Valerian, or common Drink, wherein hath been infused the forenamed sperbs. Or else, in one day they may take a little Worm-wood and Valerian, with a Grain of Salt; in another day they may take seven or eight Berries of juniper dried, and put in Powder, and taking the same with common Drink, or with Drink in which Wormwood and Rue hath been steeped all night. Also the Treacle called Diatessaron, which is made but of four things of light price, easy to be had: The Ingredients are, Gentian, Bay-berries, myrrh, and Aristolochia the round, in equal proportion, made into an Electuary with three times the weight of sponey. Also the Root of elecampane taken in Powder with Drink. Likewise a piece of Orrins-root kept in the mouth as men pass in the streets. Take six Leaves of Sorrel, wash them with Water and Vineger, let them lye in the said Water and Vineger a while, then eat them fasting, and keep in your mouth and thew now and then either Setwall, or the Root of Angelica, or a little cinnamon, or four Grains of myrrh, or so much of Rattle-snake root: Goats Rue may be eaten in Salads, or the juice or Decoction thereof in broth or Passet-drink, may be so used to very good purpose. XIX. Issues. SUch as are tied in necessary attendance on the Infected, as also such as live in Visired Houses, shall do well to cause Issues to be made in their Arms or Legs, or both, as the Physician shall think fit. XX. Bleeding, Purging, Vomiting. THese three great Remedies rarely have place in the Plague, but are generally dangerous,( and most of all, Purging by any strong Medicines) and therefore not to be used but upon some extraordinary urgent indicant or just occasion, and with the greatest taution, which onely an able Physician can judge of; and therefore, no Advice in general can be given: Onely if any person be taken sick upon a full stomach, from eating lately before, or Meat undigested; It is advisable that such person discharge or get the stomach emptied with all speed by a large quantity of Carduus, or plain Posset-drink, or warm water, provoking by a feather or finger in the throat as is usual: And when need requires, to open or keep soluble the hody, the Pills of Rufus, commonly called Pestilential-Pills, are the best and most proper to be used. XXI. Medicines expulsive. THe poison is expelled best by sweeting, provoked by Posset-ale, made with Fennel and Marygolds in winter, and with Sorrel, Bugloss, and Borage in Summer; with the which in both times they must mingle London-Treacle the weight of two drams, and so lay themselves with all quietness to sweat. For those that are able to hear it, this tourse is effectual, and hath proved successful. Let the Party take a large Dose of any of these Cordials that is nept at hand, that is to say, of London-Treatle, or diascord, of either half an ounce, or of mithridate a ouarter of an mince, or of Venice-Treacle half a quarter, or a quarter of an ounce at most, in adraught of Pusset-drink made with Woite-wine, or Vineger; then let him be put to bed to sweat, wellcovered, in a blanket, without his S●… int, for 24 bours; every sixth hour renewing his Cordial, but in half the quantity formerly directed; between whiles refreshing him with Posset-drink, Datmeal-caudle, or thin Broths made Gelly-wise, or Hartshorn jelly. If the Person be unapt to sweat, lay two or three Bricks quenched in vinegar, wrapped up in a woollen cloth, to his body to promote it. At the same time that he applieth himself to sweat, he must apply Blisters to the parts of his body, as is elsewhere directed; Or Rowelling with Bryony, Helsevor, or Setterwort-roots, doth exceeding well on the same occasion. Take of Angelica-root two ounces, of Tormentil-root an ounce and half, make a decoction in two pints of water to a pint and half, add three ounces of juice of Limon, or an ounce and half of vinegar; let the sick drink a draft as he can bear, and repeat it at two or three hours distance. Take of Mithridate to the quantity of two drams, or of London-Treacle, or of diascord to three drams, or of Venice-Treacle to a dram and half; dissolve either of them in a quarter of a pint of vinegar, and drink it. Take of Venice-Treacle a dram, diascord two scruples, Salt of Wormwood, Crabs-eyes, of each a scruple, Treacle-water an ounce and half, juice of lemons, or vinegar two ounces, for one Dose. For the cure of the Infected upon the first apprehension; Burr-seeds, Cochinele, Powder of Parts-born, Citron-seeds, one or more of them; with a few grains of camphor ●… e good to be given in Carduus or Dra●… water, or with some Treacle-water. Take of White-wine vinegar from half a quarter to a quarter of a pint, mixed with Salt, from twenty grains to forty; drink it warm, and sweat upon it. Or take the juice of fresh Cow-dung, strained with vinegar, from three spoonfuls to seven. XXII. Avicen's Medicine. TAke of Bole-Armeniack a dram, of juice of Orange half an ounce, of White-wine an ounce, of Red-rose water two ounces; mix them, and give it as soon as the Party suspects the disease; if it be vomited, repeat it again; If vomited again, repeat it the second time. Take of Burr-seeds half a dram, of Cochinele half a scruple, of camphor sieve grains; mix these with two ounces of Carduus, or Dragon-water, half an ounce of Treacle-water, syrup of Woole-sorrel a spoonful, mix these, give it the Patient warm, cover him to sweat; you may give him a second draft after twelve hours; Let him drink no could drink; This Posset-drink, or the like, will be good to give the Visited liberally. Take Citron-seeds six or eight, shavings of Parts-born half a dram, London-Treacle one dram, mix them with two ounces of Carduus-water, or with three ounces of the prescribed Posset-drink; drink it warm, and so lye to sweat. Take Sorrel-water, five or six spoonfuls, Treacle-water one spoonful, London-Treacle one dram and a half; mix them well, give it warm, and so lay the Patient to sweat. Take Tormentil, and Celandine-roots, of each four ounces, Scabious and Rue, of each one handful and an half, White-wine vinegar three pints; boil these till one pint be wasted, strain out the liquour, which reserve for the use of the Infected: let it be taken thus. Take of this liquour, and of Carcuus-water, of each one ounce and an half, London-Treacle one dram and an half, Bole-Armeniack balfe a scruple, put thereto a little Sugar, mix them well, let the Parry drink it warm, and cover him to sweat. XXIII. In Summer this is good. TAke the juice of Wood-Sorrel two ounces, the Juice of lemons one ounce, diascord one dram, cinnamon six grains, vinegar half an ounce; give it warm, and lay the sick party to swear; use this in case of Fluxes of the Belly, or want of rest. Take of Treacle of Andromachus or Venice-Treacle, from half a dram to a dram; or of Electuarium de Ovo, from a scruple to half a dram, in warm Posset-Ale, as soon as you suspect yourself infected, going to bed, and sweeting upon it. Take of the Roots of Butterburre, the inner Bark of Ash, of each a pound; Rue, Scordium, Angelica, Meadow-Swéet, Dragons, Carduus, of each thré handfuls, White-Wine and vinegar of each two quarts; let them infuse for a day or two, and after be distilled; adding to the rest( if to be had) six handfuls of the green Rinds of Walnuts: Let the Water be swéetned with syrup of Wood-Sorrel, adding to two quarts half a dram of camphor, and three drams of Spirit of Sulphur. This Water may be given from two ounces to four. Take of the Roots of Butterburre eight ounces, let them be infused in a gallon of Ale for four and twenty hours, and then distilled in a alembic, add to the distilled Water six pints of a strong Decoction of Carduus, and in these liquors infuse Roots of Butterburre, Masterwort, Angelica, Valerian, of each six ounces, Elecampane-root an ounce, Leaves of Scordium, balm, of each three handfuls, of Iuniper-berries half an ounce; After four and twenty hours infusing in a Bath or hot water, make a second Distillation. Of this Water may be given three or four ounces with warm-Posset-Ale. Take of the Root Butterburre, otherwise called Pestilent-wort, one ounce, of the Root of Great-Valerian a quarter of an ounce, of Sorrel an handful; boil all these in a quart of water to a pint, then strain it, and put thereto two spoonfuls of vinegar, and dissolve in it two ounces of good Sugar: Let the Infected drink of this, so hot as he may suffer it, a good draft, and if he chance to east it up again, let him take the same quantity straightway upon it, and provoke himself to sweat. Take of the Powder of good Bay-berries, the Husk taken away from them before they be dried, or of Ivy-berries well dried, a spoonful; let the Patient drink this well mingled in a draft of good stale Ale or beer, or with a draft of White-wine, and go to bed, and cast himself into a sweat, and forbear sleep. Take the inward Bark of the Ash-trée one pound, of Walnuts with the green outward shells to the number of fifty, cut these small; of Scabious, of Verbin, of each a handful, of Saffron two drams, pour upon these the strongest vinegar you can get, four pints, let them a little boil together upon a very soft fire, and then stand in a very close Pot well stopped all a night upon the Embers, after distill them with a soft fire, and receive the water close kept. Give unto the Patient laid in bed and well covered with clothes, two ounces of this water to drink, and let him be provoked to sweat; and every eight hours during the space of four and twenty hours, give him the same quantity to drink. Care must be taken in the use of these sweeting Cordials, that the party infected sweat two or three hours, or rather much longer, if he have strength, and sleep not till the sweat be over, and that he have been well wiped with warm Linen, and when he hath been dried, let him wash his mouth with Water and vinegar warm, and let his Fonce and Hands be washed with the same. When these things are done, give him a good draft of Broth made with Chicken, or Mutton, with Rosemary, Thyme, Sorrel, Succory, and Marygolds; or else Water-grewel, with Rosemary, and Winter-Sabory, or Thyme, Panado seasoned with verjuice, or juice of Wood-Sorrel: For their Drink, let it be small Beer warmed, with a tost, or Water boiled with Carraway-seed, Carduus-seed, and a crust of Bread, or such Posset-drink as is mentioned before in the second Medicine; after some Qutriment let them sleep or rest, often washing their Mouth with Water and vinegar. These Cordials must be repeated once in eight, ten, or twelve hours at the furthest. If the Party infected vomit up his Medicine, then repeat it presently. XXIV. Medicines External. VEsicatories applied behind the Ears, about the Wrists, near the Arm-pits, on the inside of the Thighs, and ●eer the Groins, will draw forth the venom. For the swelling under the ears, Armpits, or in the Groines, they must be always drawn forth and ripened, and broken with all speed. These rumours, and much more the Carbuncles and blains do require the care and skill of the expert chirurgeon: but not to leave the poorer sort destitute of good remedies; these following are very good. Pull off the feathers from the tails of living Cocks, Hens, Pigeons, or Chickens, and holding their Bills, hold them hard to the Botch or Swelling, and so keep them at that part until they die, and by this means draw out the poison: It is good to apply a Cupping-glass, or Embers in a Dish, with a handful of Sorrel upon the Embers. XXV. To break the Tumour. TAke a great Onion, hollow it, put into it a Fig, Rue cut small, and a dram of Venice-Treacle, put it close stopped in a wet paper, and roast it in the Embers; apply it hot unto the Tumour, lay three or four, one after another, let one lye three hours. Or it may be better to roast the Onion and Fig apart, the Onion being kept whole, and then, that all be beaten and mixed together. Take roots of white lilies, Figs, Leeks roasted, of each an ounce, of Line-seed half an ounce, let them be beat together in a mortar, and mixed with six drams of old sour leaven, adding as much oil of Lilies as may give ●n due consistence; Let it be applied to the Tumour till it ripen and break; which last, if it do not in a long time, it may be opened by incision, or a caustic, applied upon, or a little below it. Scabious and Sorrel roasted in the Embers, mixed with a little strong leaven, and some Barrows-grease, and a little Salt, will draw it and break it. Take two or three roasted Onions, a Lilie-root or two, roasted, a handful of Scabious roasted, four or five Figs, a piece of leaven, and a little Rue, stamp all these together; if it be too dry, put to it of oil of Lilies as much as shall be needful, or so much salt Butter; make a Pultess, apply it hot, after it hath lain three or four hours take it off, and burn it, and apply a fresh Pultess of the same, if it prove hard to break, add a little burnt Copperass to the Pultess. Or this, TAke the Flowers of Elders two handfuls, Rocket-séed bruised one ounce, Pigeons dung three drams: stamp these together, put to them a little oil of Lilies, make thereof a Puitess, apply it, and change it as you did the former. XXVI. To draw. WHen it is broken, to draw it, and heal it, take the Yolk of an egg, one ounce of Honey of Roses, Turpentine half an ounce, Wheat-flour a little, London-Treacle a dram and a half; mix these well, spread it upon Leather, change it twice a day, or take Diachylon cum Gummis. XXVII. For the Carbuncle. APply an actual or potential Cautery, laying a Defensative of Bole-Armeniack, or Terra Sigillata, mixed with vinegar, and the White of an egg, round about the Tumour, but nor upon it. Take three or four Cloves of garlic, Rue half a handful, four Figs, strong leaven, and the Soot of a Chimney in which Wood hath been burnt, of each half an ounce, Mustard-séed two drams, Salt a dram and a half; stamp these well together, and apply it hot to the Sore; you may put thereto a little salt Butter, if it be too dry. Or this, TAke leaven half an ounce, Radishroots, the bigger the better, an ounce and an half, Mustard-séed two drams, Onions and garlic roasted, of each two drams and an half, Venice-Treacle or Mithridatum three drams; mix these in a mortar, apply it hot thrice a day to the sore. But these sores cannot be well ordered and cured, without the personal care of a discreet chirurgeon. Take of Stabious two handfuls, stamp it in a stone-morter, then put into it of old Swines grease salted two ounces, and the yolk of an egg; stamp them well together, and lay part of this warm to the sore. Take of the Leaves of meadows, of Camomil-flowers, of each of them a handful, of Linséed beaten into powder two ounces, boil the Mallow-leaves first cut, and the flowers of camomile in fair water, standing about a fingers breadth, boil all them together, until all the water be almost spent, then put thereunto the Linséed, of Wheat-flower half a handful, of Swines grease, the skins taken away, three ounces, of oil of lilies two ounces, stir them still with a stick, and let them all boil together on a soft fire without smoke, until the water be utterly spent: beat them all together in a mortar until they be well incorporated, and in feeling, smooth and not rough: Then take part thereof hot in a dish, set upon a chasing-dish of coals, and lay it thick upon a saith, applying it to the-sore. Take a white Onion cut in pieces, of Fresh Butter three ounces, of Leaven the weight of twelve pence, of meadows one handful, of Scabious one handful, of cloves of garlic the weight of twenty-pence. Boil them on the fire in sufficient water, and make a Pultess of it, and lay it warm to the sore. Another. TAke two handfuls of Valerian, two ounces of Dane-wort, an handful of Smaliage or Lovage; séethe them all in Butter and Water, with a few Crumbs of Bread, and make a Pultess thereof, and lay it warm to the sore till it break. Another. IF you cannot have these Herbs, it is good to lay a Loaf of Bread to it hot, as it cometh out of the Oven( which afterward shall be burnt or butted in the earth) or the Leaves of Scabious or Sorrel roasted, or two or three Lilly-roots roasted under Embers, beaten and applied. It will be good to forbear all crude and moist Fruits, as Cucumbers, Melons, Plumbs, Cherries, Peaches, and raw Herbs and salads, as lettuce, spinach, Radish, and such like; or to be moderate in the use of them, mixed with oil and vinegar. THose that are delighted with chemical Medicines onely, may make use of some of these following, being honestly prepared according to the Descriptions of the authors, and cautiously administered. Elixir Pestilentiale. Elixir Proprietatis. Sulphur album & fixum. Tinctura auri & Sulphuris fixi incremabilis. Mixtura Bezoardica. Extractum Pestilentiale. Aurum Diaphoretieum. Aurum vitae. Bezoardicum minerale purpurascens. Bezoardicum minerale diaphoreticum. Turpetum minerale diaphoreticum. Aqua gratiae Dei. Spiritus Antipestiferus. Praecipitatus auri diaphoreticus. FINIS.