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You may copy it, give it away or -re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included -with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org/license - - -Title: Good Councell against the plague - Shewing sundry preset preseruatiues for the same - -Author: Anonymous - -Release Date: May 20, 2020 [EBook #62182] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: UTF-8 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK GOOD COUNCELL AGAINST THE PLAGUE *** - - - - -Produced by Stephen Hutcheson and the Online Distributed -Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was -produced from images generously made available by The -Internet Archive) - - - - - - - - - - Good Councell - against the plague. - - - Shewing sundry present preseruatiues for the same, by wholsome fumes, -drinks, vomits, and other inward receits: as also, the perfect cure (by - implaysture) of any that are therewith infected. - - _Nowe necessary to be obserued of euery Housholder, to auoyde the - infection, lately begun in some places of this Cittie._ - -Written by a learned Phisition, for the health of his Countrey. - - [Illustration: Decorative block] - - AT LONDON, - Printed by Iohn Charlwood, - for Thomas Nelson. - 1592. - - [Illustration: Deorative border] - - - - - _To the Reader._ - - -{F}or as much as the force and enfection of the ordenarye disease, -called the Plague or pestilence, hath heeretofore beene too well knowne -and felt, in sundry places of this Realme: and considering, that it hath -of late begun to increase in sundry chiefe citties & populous places; I -thought it good to publish to you in time, sundry preseruatiues against -the said disease, the better to defend those that are in health, from -the infection of the diseased. And also to cure those that are any way -infected, grieued, or troubled with the same. _A_nd to this I was -imboldned, the rather for that it was written by a very learned and -approoued Phisition, of our time, who desireth more the health of hys -Countrey, than by discocouering his name, seeme vaine-glorious to the -world. _A_ccept this same I pray you in good part, and thanke God for -the Phisitions paynes, who hath his desire, if it may doe but that which -hee wisheth: namely to expell sicknes, and encrease health to this Land. -Which God for his mercie sake, prosper and preserue from all plagues and -daungers, for euermore. _Amen._ - - - - - THESE THINGES _OVGHT DUELIE TO_ be looked into. _Viz._ - - -{T}o keepe your houses, streetes, yardes, backsides, sinckes, and -kennels, sweete and cleane from all standing puddles, which engender -stincking sauors, that may be noysome, or breede infection: nor suffer -no dogges to come running into your houses, neither keepe any, except it -bee backward, in some place of open ayre: for they are very daungerous, -& not sufferable in time of sicknes, by reason they runne from place to -place, & from one house to an other, feeding vppon the vncleanest things -that are cast forth into the streetes and are a most apt cattell to take -infection of any sicknes, and then to bring it into the house. - - -For ayring your Roomes. - -Ayer your seuerall roomes with Charcole fiers, made in stone pans or -Chafingdishes, and not in Chimneys: set your pans in the middle of the -roomes: ayer euery roome once a weeke (at the least) and put into your -fyre a little quantitie of _Francomsence_, _Iuniper_, dryed _Rosemary_, -or of _Bay-leaues_. - - -A Fume of great experience. - -Take _Rosemary_, and put it into stronge _Vineger_, steepe it in a Bason -or bowle, heat foure or fiue _Flint stones_ red hot, and cast them into -the _Vineger_, and so let the fume assend into the middle of euery -roome. - - -An other. - -Ayer your apparel in the same sort, and with the same fume: and beare in -your hands, some handkercher, Spunge, or Cloth, wetted in the iuyce of -_VVorme-wood_, _Hearbegrace_, and red _Rose-vineger_, mixt together. - - -To smell to. - -The roote of _Enula Campna_, steeped in _Vineger_, and lapped in a -handkercher, is a speciall thing to smell vnto, if you come where the -sicknes is. - - -An other. - -_Hearbegrace_, & _VVormewood_ steeped in _Vineger_, in some pewter -peece, close stopt, is to be vsed in like sort. - - -To tast or chewe in the mouth. - -The Roote of _Angelica_, _Setwall_, _Gencian_, _Valerian_, or -_Sinamond_, is a speciall preseruatiue against the plague, being chewed -in the mouth. - - -To eate. - -Eate _Sorrell_, steeped in _Vineger_, in the morning fasting, with a -little bread and butter, Sorrell sauce, is also very wholesome against -the same. - - -An other. - -Take the kernell of a _VVallnut_, mince it with three or foure leaues of -_Hearbe-grace_, and a corne or two of _Salt_: then put it into a Figge, -warme it and eate it fasting: fast three howers after, and take it twice -a weeke. - - -A speciall thing to eate, found very comfortable. - -Take strong red _Rose-vineger_, sprinkle it vpon a toste of white -breade, spreade Butter thereon, and then cast the powder _Cinamond_ vpon -it, and eate it fasting: or eate bread and butter with _Hearbgrace_. - - -An other. - -Giue to the diseased for their ordinary foode, some broth made with a -necke of Mutton: boyled with a good quantitie of _Burridge_, _Sorrell_, -and _Buglosse_. - - -To comfort the stomacke. - -Aleberryes are very comfortable, made with _Cloues_, _Maces_, _Nutmegs_, -_Saundrrs_, _Gynney graines_, and such like. - - -To drinke. - -Take _Rue_, _VVorme-wood_, and _Scabias_, steepe it in Ale a whole -night, and drinke it fasting euery morning. - - -An other. - -Take the water of _Carduus benedictus_, or _Angelica_, mixe it with -_Methridatum_. - - -An other. - -The roote of _Enula Campana_, beaten to powder, is a speciall remedy -against the plague, being drunk fasting. - - -An other. - -Drinke the powder of _Turmentill_, in _Sorrell_ or _Scabias water_. - - -An other. - -If any feele themselues already enfected, take _Angelica-water_, mixt -with _Methridatum_, drink it off, then goe to bed and sweat thereon. - - -An other to drinke. - -Take a spoonefull of _Bay berries_, and huske them before they be dry, -beate them to powder, and drink it in good stale Ale or Beere, or in -white wine: then sweat vpon it, and forbeare to sleepe. - - -To procure sweate. - -Take Posset-ale sodden with _Sorell_, & _Burridge_, mixt with _Triacle_ -of _Diatesserom_, and get you to your naked bed. - - -A speciall preseruatiue against the Plague. - -Take 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, put two spoonefulls of _Vineger_ to it, -and let the patient Drinke it so hot as he may, & then sweat vpon it. - - -An other speciall preseruatiue. - -Take an Egge, make a hole in the top of it, take out the white & the -yolke, and fill the shell only with _Saffron_, rost the shell and -_Saffron_ together, in embers of Charcoales, vntill the shell waxe -yellowe: then beat shell and all together in a Morter, with halfe a -spoonefull of Mustard-seede: nowe so soone as any suspicion is had of -infection, dissolue the weight of a french Crowne, in ten spoonfuls of -posset-ale, drink it luke warme, & sweat vpon it in your naked bed. - - -An other preseruatiue to be distilled. - -Take halfe a hundreth greene _VValnuts_, as they hange greene on the -tree, & a pound of þ inner barke of _Ash_ tree: then take _Petimorrell_, -_Housleeke_, _Scabias_, & _Veruyn_, of each a handfull, _Saffron_ halfe -an ounce, and mince all these smal together: then put a pottle of the -strongest _Vineger_ on them, boyle them ouer a soft fyer in a close pot, -& after distill them in a Limbecke: keepe the distilled water, & giue -the patient two ounces to drink therof, 4. times in xxiiii. howers, when -he is in his naked bed, & let him bee prouoked to sweat, and he shall -find great ease therby. - - -If the patient be bound in the body. - -Take a suppository made with a little boyled Hunny, and a little powder -of Salt: let this be put vp at the fundament with a little butter, -vntill it moue him to the stoole. - - -Drinke for ordenary dyet. - -So neere as you can, let the Patients ordenary drinke be good small Ale, -of eyght dayes olde. - - -For vomitting. - -Uomitting is better than bleeding in this case, and therfore prouoke to -vomit so neere as you can. - - -To prouoke vomit. - -Take three leaues of _Eastrabecca_, stampe it, and drinke it in Rennish -Wine, Ale, or posset Ale. - - -An other. - -A little quantitie of white _Helibor_, grated and drunke in the like -sort, procureth vomyt. - - -A speciall vomit. - -Take two ounces of Dyle of _VValnuts_, a spoonefull of the iuyce of -_Celandyne_, and halfe a spoonefull of the iuyce of _Reddith-rootes_: -Let not the partie sleepe for two howers after, and in so dooing it is -better than any purging. - - -For Purging. - -If the partie be full of grosse humours, let hym blood immediatly vpon -the right arme, on the lyuer veyne, or on the median veyne, in the same -arme: so as no sore appeare the first day. - - -A very wholsome purge. - -Put into the pap of an Apple, a sixpenny weight of _Alloes_, and so take -it: or the pyls of _Rufus_. - - -A very wholesome water to be distilled. - -Steepe _Sorrell_ in _Vineger_, xxiiij. howers, then take it out, & dry -it with a linnen cloth, then still it in a Limbecke, drinke foure -spoonefuls, with a little Sugar: then walke vppon it till you sweat, if -you may: if not, keepe your bed and sweat vpon it. Use this before -supper on any euening. - -If the pacient happen to bee troubled with any swellings, botches, -Carbuncles, or Gods tokens: let him sweat moderatly now and then. - - -Outward Medicines to rypen the sore. - -Take the roote of a white _Lylly_, rost it in a good handful of -_Sorrell_, stampe it and apply it thereto very hot. Let it lye xxiiij. -howers, and it will breake the sore. - - -An other. - -Take olde Swynes grease salted, two ounces, with the yolke of an egge, -and two handfuls of _Scabias_, stampe them together, and lay it warme to -the sore. - - -An other. - -Take a small quantitie of Leuen, a handfull of _Mallowes_, a little -quantitie of _Scabias_, cut a white _Oynion_ into peeces, with halfe a -dozen heades of _Garlicke_: boyle these together in running Water, make -a Poultus of it, and then lay it hot to the sore. - - -Another. - -The like may be made of two handfuls of _Valerian_, three rootes of -_Danwoorte_, and a handfull of _Smallidge_: seeth them in sheepes suet -and water, with a fewe crums of bread: and applye it hotte to the sore. - - -An other. - -Take a hot Loafe, new taken foorth of the Ouen, apply it to the sore, -and it will doubtlesse breake the same: but afterward bury the same -loafe deepe enough in the ground, for feare of any infection: for if -either dog or any other thing doe feede thereon, it will infect a great -many. - - -Other obseruations. - -Let the sicke and enfected persons bee seperated and kept from the -whole, vntill the sore bee healed: but generally let them be kept within -the space of a moneth. - - -For ayring Apparell. - -Let the Apparell of the diseased persons, be well and often washed, be -it lynnen or woollen: or let it be ayred in the sonne, or ouer pans of -fyer, or ouer a Chafingdish of Coales, & fume the same with -_Francomsence_, _Iuniper_, or dryed _Rose-mary_. - - -A perfect good Playster for the cure of the sore, after it is broken. - -Take vnwrought Waxe, white Turpentine, the yolke of an Egge, a little -fresh butter, and a quantitie of English honney, boyle all these -together to a salue, and apply it to the sore, being thin spread vppon a -cloth in manner of an ordenary playster. - - - _FINIS._ - - - - - Transcriber’s Notes - - -—Retained publication information from the printed edition: this eBook - is public-domain in the country of publication. - -—Left the original orthography and spelling unchanged. - -—In the HTML version only, blockletter text is represented by bold - sans-serif. - -—In the text versions only, text in _italics_ is delimited by - _underscores_. - - - - - - - -End of Project Gutenberg's Good Councell against the plague, by Anonymous - -*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK GOOD COUNCELL AGAINST THE PLAGUE *** - -***** This file should be named 62182-0.txt or 62182-0.zip ***** -This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: - http://www.gutenberg.org/6/2/1/8/62182/ - -Produced by Stephen Hutcheson and the Online Distributed -Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was -produced from images generously made available by The -Internet Archive) - - -Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions -will be renamed. - -Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no -one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation -(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without -permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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