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,,the                   ,charitable     
,petmater1                              
,,or1                       ,the cure of
 the                           ,,plague1
      ,conteining a few hort and neceary
 intructions     how to preerve the body
 from infection of the       ,p ,l ,a ,g
 ,v ,e1 as alo to cure thoe that are    
,infected4         ,together with a     
little treatie concerning               
the cure of the ,small ,pox4            
,publihed for the benefit of the poore  
of this            ,city and not unmeet 
for the ,rich1      ,by ,t h o m a s  ,s
 h e r w o o d ,practitioner in         
,,physick4                       #b     
,kings #bj4g4       ,and ,i ,s ,a ,i ,a 
,h aid1 take a lump of ,figs1 and       
they tooke1 and laid it upon the boil1  
and he                       recovered4 
,,london     ,printed by ,a4,n4 for     

,john ,francklin1 and are      to be old
 at his ,shop in ,lothbury1 neer the    
,windmill4 #afda4            ,to the    
,worhipfull ,alexander ,read1           
,doctor of ,phyick and ,chirurgery1     
one of the ,societie of the             
,colledge of ,phyicians for             
the ,citie of ,london4      ,sir1 having
 finihed this treatie1 ,i conidered what
 entertainment  it might find in the    
world2 and fearing1 that it would be    
envied1 for  the good that it offereth  
unto this ,kingdome1 as ,i the ,author  
have  been for my practice1 ,i bethought
 my elfe that it might afely hover      
under your wings1 whereupon ,i am bold  
to thrut it into your  protection1 that 
it may the better be defended from the  
calumnies of  thee times4 ,the ,subject 
of it is1 that which ,i have practied   
and  proved by ,experience1 o that if   
there bee occaion1 ,i believe ,i hall   
bee able to render ufficient reaons to  
prove it1 from the mot  ,authentique    
rules in ,phyick4 ,and if there be any  

errors ecaped in  it1 ,i hall rather    
deire that they may be corrected by the 
dicreti  of you or any of the ,colledg  
of ,phyicians1 than diputed upon by new 
beginners in the practice of ,phyick1   
who have but mall experience4  ,as for  
thoe ,medicines publihed at the latter  
end of this booke1 ,i  hall not deire   
your protection for them1 becaue ,i     
never made you1  nor any man acquainted 
with them4 ,for ,i intended that they   
hould be  ,protectors for themelves3 but
 however ,i hope that my endeavours in  
this mall treatie will not be unpleaant1
 but acceptable to you1 for  the good   
which ,i believe it will do in the      
,world2 and o for this time  ,i ret in  
ome meaure of aurance of your worhips   
favour4                                 
,your ,servant1                         
,tho3 ,sherwood4          ,to the       
friendly ,reader4      ,having conidered
 with my elfe in thee dangerous times   
the great  ditrees of the poore of this 
,city1 by reaon of the contagious  dieae

 of the petilence1 now reigning amongt  
them2 and eeing them  to be altogether  
ignorant1 in the ue of thoe meanes that 
are  convenient for their cure1 as      
purging1 vomiting1 bleeding1 weating1   
and the like3 ,therefore conidering what
 good thee few rules  7experimented by  
my elfe7 may do unto many1 ,i was       
thereby moved to  print them1 for the   
benefit of uch who want the helpe of the
  skilfull and faithfull ,phyician4 ,for
 the undertanding and memory of  thoe   
that hall have occaion to ue them1 ,i   
have divided them into  three ,chapters1
 with contents4 ,as for the medicines   
precribed1 they  are old by             
,apothecaries1 who may afford them      
reaonably to the  poore3 ,the others    
adjoyned ,i hall give to the poore for  
,gods ake1    and the rich hall have    
them for competent atisfaction2         
but ,i hall eteeme it my greatet        
reward1 if any hall receive             
good and benefit by                     
my mall labours                         

and endevours4                          
,thine ,t4 ,s4          ,,chap4 #a4     
#a4 ,what are the caues of the          
,petilence4 #b4 ,how they are           
avoided4 #c4 ,means to preerve the body 
from ,infection4      ,there are divers 
caues of this dieae4 ,the firt is in1   
which ought  to be repented of4 ,the    
econd an infected and corrupted air1    
which  hould be avoided4 ,the third an  
evill diet1 which hould be amended4     
,the fourth are evill humours heaped    
together in the body1 being apt  to     
putrifie1 and beget a ,fever1 which mut 
be taken away by convenient  medicines4 
,therefore whooever would preerve their 
bodies from infection1 let  them firt   
make their peace with ,god1 in whoe hand
 is the power of  life and death4 ,then 
let them ue the meanes1 and hun all thoe
  things that are able to beget this    
dieae1 as all infected and  corrupted   
aire1 all fogges and mits that do arie  
from the earth or  water1 and all       
tinking mels that do arie from          

dunghills1 inks1  graves1 carrion1 nuffs
 of candles1 or rotten fruits1 or any   
thing  ele that doth putrifie and tink4 
,abtain from all meats and drinks  that 
beget rottennee and filthinee in the    
body 7 o conequently  a ,fever or the   
,plague7 as exceive eating of fruits1   
epecially thoe  that are unripe4 ,alo   
forbear all orts of fih that have       
neither  cales nor hels1 as ,eels1      
,lampreys1 and the like4 ,latly1 take   
heed  of over-charging the tomacke with 
meats1 or drinks1 or hot ,wines2  but   
epecially your unripe medium ,wines4    
,if any hall find themelves oppreed with
 gros  corrupt humors1 o  that they are 
in danger of this dieae they hall be    
cleaned1 by  taking one ounce and half1 
or two ounces1 of the infuion ,crocus   
metallorum1 7which is to be bought at   
every ,apothecaries7  put to it  ,oximel
 half an ounce1 this hall give them five
 or ix vomits1 and  almot as many       
tooles4 ,and after every vomit1 let them
 drinke ome  warme poet drinke2 o let   

them keepe themelves warme that day3 one
  houre after it hath done working let  
them eat a mee of warm broth  made with 
a neck of ,mutton1 or with uch freh meat
 as the ick are  bet able to buy2 of    
which meat let them eat paringly for the
  preent4 ,thoe that are o tender or    
weakly that they cannot brook  this     
vomit1 they may be very well purged from
 corrupt humours1 by  taking one or two 
drams of pilul ,petilentiales3 ,but the 
poorer  ort that cannot goe to this     
charge1 may take intead thereof ,aloes  
one dram in the pap of an ,apple1 tewed 
,prunes1 or ele in a little  ,ale or    
,beere4 ,this pill1 and this ,aloes1 are
 excellent remedies for  women and      
children1 and they are o afe that women 
with child may  take them4 ,after the   
bodie is purged1 it hall be neceary to  
draw  ix or eight ounces of bloud from  
the liver or middle vein of the  arme1  
if the partie be able to utain the loe  
of it4    ,such as have lived temperatly
 and paringly1 and o conequently are    

not oppreed with corrupted humours1 uch 
hall not need any the  aforeaid         
evacuations or purgations2 but let them 
hun1 as much as  they can1 all          
infectious and corrupted aire3 ,but     
eeing it is a thing  almot imposible in 
the ,citie of ,london2 therefore they   
that are  timorous and fearefull may    
carry about them the roots of ,enula    
campana1 and ,angelica1 dried or        
candied1 of which they may bite now  and
 then4 ,alo the waters of ,scabios1     
,angelica1 or ,pimpernell1  are great   
preervations for children againt the    
,plague1 if two  poonfuls thereof be    
taken in a morning fating4              
,,chap4 #b4      #a ,by what ignes you  
may know whether the ick be infected    
with     the ,petilence4 #b ,how thoe   
ignes doe encreae or decreae every      
day2 #c ,whether life or death be likely
 to enue2 #d ,a caveat not     to tamper
 with thoe that begin to amend of       
themelves4      ,thoe that are infected 
with the ,petilence1 in the beginning or

 firt  day thereof1 are taken with an   
extraordinary cold outwardly1 and a     
burning heate inwardly1 a great paine   
and girding about the tomacke1  a       
luggihnee and drouinee of the whole     
body1 a loe of appetite1  a bitternee in
 the throat1 with a deire to vomit1     
ometimes they  do vomit4    ,the dieae  
continuing unto the econd and third day1
 the heate  breaketh outwardly1 tronger1
 and tronger1 o that there followeth a  
great paine in the head1 and a          
difficulty of breathing1 uperfluous     
leeps1 and ometimes uperfluous          
watchings1 they grow frantike and       
light-headed1 and they looke very       
taringly3 ,and if there doth any        
welling appear under the eares1 armes1  
cheeks1 or groines1 and that  thee ignes
 aforenamed doe begin to ceae1 ,then    
hall the ick  recover immediatly without
 any medicine1 onely give him a plater  
or  pultee to ripen the tumour1 which   
mut be applyed the next day after  the  
welling appeareth2 but give him nothing 

inwardly1 except it be a  warme ,caudle1
 or ,ale-brue1 or ,broth2 for if you    
give him a vomit or  purge1 you hall    
trike the welling into the noble parts1 
and the  ick hall be in danger of his   
life3 and if you let him bloud1 you     
hall draw the venemous humour from the  
,soare into the veins1 and  dipere it   
with the bloud through the whole body1  
and thereby detroy  the health of the   
patient1 and horten his life2 as it came
 to pae  with a good friend of mine4    
,alo if you give him any medicine to    
provoke weat1 you hall retore the ,fever
 again1 and o the icke  hall die without
 redemption2 yea1 and more mierably1    
then thoe that  never amended1 unlee    
,god be more mercifull unto him2 whereof
 ,i have  had a orrowfull experience4   
,therefore bee carefull that you doe not
 tamper with thoe that do  begin to     
amend3 for thoe very ,medicines that are
 excellently  available againt any      
,fevers in the beginning or encreae of  
them1  being given in the declination or

 recovery1 will bring the patient  into 
a ,relape1 which is wore then the former
 dieae1 and which  hall greatly endanger
 life4 ,for how many have died by the   
uneaonable taking of ,treacle1          
,mithridate1 and other good ,medicines8 
,wherefore ,i have often aid1 that a    
skilfull ,phyician by watching his  time
 hall doe more with a cup of warme      
drinke in the cure of the  ,plague1 or  
any ,fever1 then the ignorant hall do   
with all the  excellent ,medicines that 
are in the ,apothecaries ,shop4    ,now 
if the riing doe appear1  that the      
ymptoms or ignes aforenamed  doe not    
begin to ceae1 but rather encreae1 ,then
 hortly after there  will appeare ome   
blains or pots1  o death enueth1 unlee  
you  draw ten or twelve ounces of bloud 
7according to the trength of the  ick7  
from the liver or middle vein of the    
arme1 on that ide where  the riing is4  
,but if o be that the icknee continueth 
unto the third and fourth  day1 and the 
ymptomes remaine in their full vigour1  

then hortly will  the pots come forth2  
and then ,i know no medicine that can   
deliver  from death1 except ,god be more
 mercifull to the ick3 ,but only on the 
third day before the pots appear it hall
 be greatly available to  give him one  
of the cordial weats precribed in the   
enuing ,chapter4          ,,chap4 #c4   
#a ,here are precribed certain approved 
remedies for the cure of     the        
,petilence1 #b ,the order and manner how
 to ue them4      ,whooever hal perceive
 their bodies infected with the ,plague1
 let  them take on the firt day of the  
icknee the vomit1 in that order  and    
manner as it is laid down in the firt   
,chapter4 ,and after it hath  done      
working with them1 they hal find        
themelves as well as ever  they were in 
their lives3 for it cleneth the tomack  
and bowels from  al corrupt humours1    
which is one of the chiefet caues of the
  icknes4 ,but if the ick be weak and   
cannot bear a vomit1 it hall be  good to
 give him one dram of the foreaid pillul

 petilentiales1 or  intead thereof one  
dram of ,aloes1 you may give it either  
in pill or  in potion1 according as the 
ick can bet take it1 and in the working 
of it let him drink ome warm broth4     
,but if it be o1 that this coure hath   
been neglected the firt day1  or beyond 
the time of #bd houres1 it will bee in  
vaine to ue it the  econd day3 ,yea1 it 
will bee dangerous1 eeing that the      
infection is  dipered by the bloud      
throughout all the ,veines of the bodie4
  ,therefore on the econd day of        
,viitation it hall bee good to draw     
from the ,median ,veine of the arme o   
much bloud as the patient can  endure to
 bleed3 and if the icke hath not gone to
 the toole during  the time of his      
icknee1 you hall give him either before 
or after  bleeding this ,clyter4 ,take  
of ,beets1 ,violet leaves1 ,burrage1    
,bugloe1 ,scabios1 of each one handfull1
 ,french barley one ounce2  boyle all   
thee in a ufficient quantitie of water  
untill it be halfe  conumed1 then train 

it1 and take three quarters of a pint of
 the  decoction1 and put to it of the   
,electuary of ,hierapicra five or ixe   
drams1 oile of ,rue one dram1 red ,sugar
 one ounce1 the yolk of an egge1  and a 
little alt2 o make you a ,clyter thereof
 and adminiter it  bloud warme4 ,alo you
 may adminiter to the ick this ,clyter4 
,boyle  an handfull of ,rue in a pint of
 poet drinke1 and put to it a piece  of 
weet butter1 a little honey1 the yolke  
of an egge1 and a thimble  full of alt2 
make a clyter and adminiter it bloud    
warme4    ,but if that the ick amend not
 upon this coure taken the econd day1   
or that this means hath not been ued1   
but that hee continued ick  untill the  
third and fourth day1 o that the        
infection hath taken hold  of the vitall
 pirits1 ,then keeping him warme in his 
bed1 you hall  ue this ,cordiall to weat
 with all4 ,take of the water of        
,scabios1  ,burrage1 ,bugloe1 and       
,angelica1 of each halfe an ounce1 the  
,electuary  of egges two cruples1 or one

 dram1 of ,bole ,armoniak one cruple1   
,syrrup of ,roes halfe an ounce1 make it
 into a potion1 and let the  ick drink  
it up at once or twice3 two or three    
poonfuls hereof is  ufficient for a     
child4 ,or the poorer ort may take two  
peny-worth of  ,treacle or ,mithridate1 
in a quarter of a pint of ,dragon water4
 ,with  either of thee ,medicines you   
may weat the ick1 untill ome tumour     
doth appeare1 or that he commeth to know
 himelfe amended4 ,for this is  the lat 
medicinall refuge we have in the cure of
 the ,plague4 ,if you  can1 keep the ick
 from drinking and leeping for the pace 
of three  houres untill the medicine    
hath done working4 ,but if you cannot1  
let  the patient drinke a little ,limon 
poet1 made with ome ,marigold  flowers1 
and ,harts horn4    ,and if ignes of    
amendment doe appeare1 doe not take him 
out of his  bed1 or let him coole       
uddenly3 ,but let him weat on gently of 
his own  accord1 for it is natures weat 
following the medicine1 which will doe  

him more good than a ,kingdome4 ,in this
 lat weat you may give him  ome ,caudle 
or ,alebrue3  when the weats begin to   
ceae of themelves1   his skin grows dry 
and warme1 then let him it up by a good 
fire2  ,aire his cloathes1 and o let him
 give ,god thanks for his life4         
,adde1 if any tumour appeare you may    
ripen it with this ,emplater4  ,take ix 
figs1 raiins of the ,sun toned half an  
ounce1 alt two  drams1 honey one ounce1 
beat them all together1 and heat it well
 with  ome oile of ,camomill upon the   
fire1 o pread it upon ome cloth1  and   
lay it warm to the tumour1 hifting it   
every twelve houres untill  it look with
 a white head3 and when it is ripe1 if  
it be difficult to  break1 lay to it ome
 ,gooe dung made warme with ome weet    
butter or  allet oile2 alo the root of a
 white ,lilly roted1 with ome orrell1   
to which put a piece of weet butter1    
apply it very warm to the  oare1 ,but if
 it will not break with this means1 then
 you mut open it  with a penknife or    

lancet2 ele the corruption will rot the 
fleh1  even to the very bone1 and when  
you have opened it1 queeze out the      
corruption with your hands1 and put into
 the oare1 a tent made with  unguentum  
bailicon1 or gyptiacum1  mel roarum1 and
 lay upon  the tent a plater made with  
,diachilon3 ,continue your tents untill 
all the corruption be drawn out1 then   
the plater of ,diachilon will  cure it  
perfectly4    ,if any that are ancient  
or weak hall be infected with the       
,petilence1  it hall not be neceary to  
give them any purge1 vomit1 or weat1 or 
to let them bloud2 becaue they cannot   
beare the loe of o many  pirits as are  
pent by uch evacuations4 ,therefore you 
may lay upon  the pit of the tomack of  
the icke a young live puppy1 and if the 
ick can but leep the pace of three or   
foure houres1 they hall  recover        
preently1 and the dog hall die of the   
,plague4 ,this ,i have  known approved2 
and ,i do believe that it will be a cure
 for all leane1  pare1 and weake bodies 

both yong and old3 provided1 that the   
dog be  yonger then the ick4            
,certaine ,intructions for the cure of  
the ,small ,pox4      ,the nature of the
 ,smal ,pox dipered this yeer throughout
 many parts  of this ,kingdome1 ,i have 
found to bee more malignant1 then any   
that  have reigned in my remembrance2 o 
that many of all ages and exes1  but    
epecially children have mierably died of
 them3 becaue for the  mot part1 the    
petilence is joyned with them1 as it    
doth plainly  appeare by thoe pots1     
blains1 and riings1 that follow them4 ,i
 have  likewie oberved that thoe        
medicines1 as ,mithridate1 ,treacle1    
,saffron and the like1 that formerly    
have cured the mall ,pox1 now  availe   
nothing3 yea1 they are dangerous1 if    
inwardly taken 7epecially  if the       
,patient hath been long ick7 but if they
 be outwardly applyed1  as ,i hall hew  
eft-oons1 they will prove good remedies 
at this time4  ,but how many a tender   
hearted mother have ,i een that1 out of 

an  unhappie care of her icke childe1   
hath by rah counel  the  uneaonable     
giving to it hot cordiall medicines1    
encreaed the ,fever1  multiplyed the    
matter of the mall pox1 and inflamed the
 ,spirits1 o  that the ,petilence hath  
many times followed4 ,but howoever the  
child  hath beene uncurable1 which      
otherwie if nothing at all1 or ele ome  
mall thing of little trength1 had been  
adminitred1 might have  recovered2      
whereupon ,i oberved the undry ways and 
meanes practied  by ,phyitians1 women1  
and my elfe1 and eeing the divere events
 of  them1 ,i laboured to find out a    
certain and ecure way for the cure of   
this dieae2 which having found by       
experience ,i have 7together with  this 
treatie of the ,plague7 ent it to the   
,pree1 hoping that no man  will either  
hate mee1 or envie mee1 for doing good1 
and that thoe  that find benefit by it  
will thank me for it4    ,the ,primitive
 or externall caues of the ,small ,pox  
are all one with  thoe which are of the 

,plague1 as an evill and corrupted aire1
 a  diorderly dyet1 that begets urfets2 
as alo for the antecedent  caues which  
are corrupt humours heaped together in  
the body3  therefore thoe meanes that ,i
 have precribed in the firt ,chapter to 
preerve the bodie from the infection of 
the ,plague1 they will alo  bee a meanes
 to preerve from the ,small ,pox4 ,thoe 
that are taken ick  this yeere with the 
,small ,pox are affected after the ame  
manner as  thoe that are infected with  
the petilence1  in the beginning it can 
carcely be dicerned by an expert        
,phyitian from it1 ,but only by  thee   
ignes4    ,thoe that are infected by the
 mall ,pox are not o violently affected 
with heat and cold1 nor pains in the    
tomack and head1 as thoe that  are ick  
with the ,petilence4    ,moreover1 thoe 
that will have the mall ,pox their skin 
is puft up1  and blown like a bladder1 o
 that their face and eyes doe hine3 they
  have a great itching in many parts of 
their bodies1 but chiefly about  their  

,noe2 they yawn much1 alo they finde a  
great paine and  heavinee in their back 
bone4    ,now if you hall perceive by   
thee ignes1 that the ick will have the  
mall ,pox1 keep him warm1 but not too   
hot2 neither let him take cold2  but    
give him breathing room enough1 as he   
lyeth in his bed3 ,then lay a  plater of
 ,mithridate or ,treacle to the pit of  
his tomack1 and if hee  be at mans      
etate1 let him drinke up all this       
,cordiall by two or three  poonfuls at a
 time every houre2 but if it be a child1
 the one halfe  will be ufficient4 ,take
 of the waters of ,roes1 ,burrage1      
,bugloe1  and ,treacle-water1 of each an
 ounce  half1 of the yrrup of ,limons1  
and ,clove-gilly-flowers of each one    
ounce1 mix them together1 and make      
thereof a potion3 ,alo the poorer ort   
may take ,roes1 ,burrage1  ,carduus1    
,marigold ,flowers1 and ,harts horn1 of 
each a like quantitie1  and boyle them  
in poet drinke1 turned with a ,limon1 or
 white wine3  for one above twenty yeers

 of age let him drink three quarters of 
a  pint at everall times1 weetned with  
,sugar2 and for a child halfe the       
quantitie will uffice4 ,let the ick weat
 gently with either of thee  ,medicines 
o long as hee can well endure it3 for   
the longer the  better2 eeing the       
,medicines of themelves are no violent  
weats2   during the weat you may give   
him now and then to quench his thirt a  
very little ,limon poet-drink by it elf4
 ,if he can you may let him  leep whilt 
he weateth4 ,and if hee lie quiet during
 the weat1 by  ,gods bleing1 within the 
pace of eight or ten houres at the mot1 
he  hall find himelf finely recovered of
 his icknee4 ,then give him no  more of 
his ,cordial or weating poet drink1 but 
only of his  ,lim-poet drink1 if he be  
thirty2 but let him lie warm in his bed 
til his skin grow dry1 then hortly after
 the ,pox will begin to hew  themelves4 
,but they will not bee many although    
every one of them  will be far greater  
then the mall ,pox do ue to be2 yet none

 of them  will pit except they be much  
tampered withal1 or picked with the     
nails4 ,but if o be that thoe which have
 white heads do burn and rage           
extreamly1 you may prick their heads    
with a ,needle and let out the          
corruption3 there is nothing ele to be  
done with thoe upon whom they  are come 
out1 and the ,fever abated but that they
 keepe themelves  warm1 it till and be  
quiet4    ,but if that the ick hath not 
gone to tool in a long time3 before you 
give him this ,cordiall to weat1 you    
hall caue him to goe to toole  by a     
clyter1 or ele which is better by a     
,suppoitor made with ,honey  and ,salt1 
or a ,violet ,comfit4 ,and if the icke  
bee yong1 trong1 and  full of bloud1 you
 hall without danger doe very well1 if  
you draw  from him eight or ten ounces  
of bloud before you lay him to weat2 for
  then the ,cordiall will have more     
power1 room1 and liberty1 to play  upon 
the dieae1 and will the ooner and better
 drive out the ,pox4 ,if  the           

quinteentia vit be given in the waters  
of ,roes1 ,burrage1 or  ,bugloe1 it will
 drive out the mall ,pox without        
weating1 and cure  the ick immediatly4  
,but if the mall ,pox be come forth1 and
 that the ,fever continue in his  full  
vigour till1 o that the ick doth not    
amend1 but grow wore and  wore1 then you
 hall not give them any hot ,medicines  
inwardly1 nor  any thing that doth      
provoke weat2 for now hot cordiall      
,medicines will  encreae the ,fever 7and
 in the beginning they would have       
quenched the  ,fever7 and turn all the  
humours of the body into the matter of  
the  mall ,pox2 o that there is nothing 
but a mierable death likely to  follow1 
oftentimes accompanied with the         
,petilence4    ,this evill is much      
practied by thoe women that pretd they  
wil drive  the mal ,pox further out1    
when they are come out already4         
,wherefore  they do but beget the ,fever
 again1 and where there are but ten they
  will make a thouand4 ,therefore be    

carefull in this cae1 what you do1  and 
give to the ick every hower nothing ele 
but two or three  poonefulls of ,roe    
water1 weetened with a little ugar4     
,this will  coole the body1 quench the  
,fever1 caue ret1 and then a toole1 and 
thereby the ick hall recover preently4  
,by thee meanes ,i have cured  many very
 uddenly that have been dangerouly ick  
in all mens ight  even to ,death1 as    
many in the ,city can beare mee witnee4 
,as ,i have warned you not to give many 
hot things when the mall ,pox  are come 
forth1 o ,i would have you beware of    
giving thoe that are  very cold1 as the 
waters of ,plantane1 ,letice1 ,purlane1 
,poppy1 and the  like2 which 7as ,i have
 ,knowne7 have relieved many for the    
preent1 and  wrought an admirable cure  
in the ight of the common people2 but by
  their cold qualities1 they have o     
congealed and etled the humours in  the 
body1 that the ick will never be        
healthfull all the daies of  their      
lives1 as ,i could intance in many4     

,thoe that deire further information    
concerning any particulars not  expreed 
at larg in this brief ,treatie1 they    
hall be fully  atisfied1 if they repaire
 to the ,author living in ,hony-uckle   
,court  in ,grub-treet1 where he hath by
 ,chimicall ,art prepared ix            
,catholicall ,medicines1 with which hee 
cureth the ,petilence1 mall  ,pox1 and  
mot curable dieaes whatoever4      #a   
,vomitivum ,benedictum4    ,this        
,medicine being taken from five graines 
to eight1 in ome  convenient ditilled   
water or wine1 or ele with ome ,conerve 
or  ,pill1 doth afely purge upwards and 
downwards1 o that it may be given  to a 
,childe1 of three or foure yeeres of    
age3 it cureth all dieaes  that arie    
from the foulnee of the tomack1 and is  
good in the  beginning of the           
,petilence1 mall ,pox1 or any ,fever1 or
 ,ague4      #b ,catharticum            
,catholicum4    ,the doe of it is from  
ten grains to twenty1 it purgeth gently 
by  toole1 and cleneth the lower belly  

from all offenive humours1   cureth the 
,french ,pox1 ,scurvy1 ,jaundis1 and    
,dropie1 alo it freeth  children from   
,worms4      #c ,diureticum ,aperitivum4
    ,this openeth all obtructions of the
 body1 but chiefly of the ,liver1       
,spleen1 ,reines1 and ,bladder1 it      
cureth the ,jaundis and the ,rickets in 
children1 alo it helpeth thoe that      
cannot make water4      #d              
,diaphoreticum ,cordiale4    ,this being
 given in a mall doe doth gently provoke
 weat1 expelleth  all venomous humours  
from the heart outwardly1 and driveth   
out the  mall ,pox1 thruteth out the    
tumours in the ,petilence1 and ome it   
cureth without bringing forth a ,riing4 
#e ,quinta ,eentia vit4    ,this        
reviveth the vitall pirits1 and hath an 
admirable vertue in  fortifying the     
heart againt all infectious1  venemous  
vapours2 o  that it is good for thoe    
that have occai to viit ick people4 ,if 
ten or twelve drops thereof be taken in 
a mornings draught it  preerveth the    

body from infection1 and if twenty or   
thirty drops of  it bee given to the    
icke of the ,petilence1 within the pace 
of ixe  houres after they are infected1 
they hall be cured in one hour1 as ,i   
have often proved3 it driveth out the   
mall ,pox1 and cureth the ick  without  
weating4      #f ,iulapium              
,retaurativum4    ,by the vertue this   
,medicine hath in reiting the           
putrifaction of  humours1 it doth cure  
all orts of ,fevers and ,agues1 it may  
be given  in any time of the dieae1 but 
epecially in the latter end of the      
icknee1 when no other ,medicine can be  
adminitred without danger4  ,with it ,i 
have cured the ,hectick ,fever1 and thoe
 that have faln into  the ,relape of the
 mall ,pox1 and uch as have been nigh   
unto death1  by reaon of violent        
,fevers4           99       99       99 
99       99    ,any of the aforeaid     
,medicines1 the ,author adminitreth both
 outwardly  and inwardly in many everall
 wayes and manners1 according to the    

age1  temperature1 complexion1 and      
dipoition1 of the bodie2 and according  
to the nature1 degrees1 and time of the 
dieae4      ,artis ,apolline vis ola et 
numen ,olympi1      ,quo ine languenti  
,pharmaca frutra dabis4       ,if that  
our art from ,god receive not trength1  
,in vain we eek mans life for to        
prolength4      ,,finis4                
,transcriber's ,note      ,four         
typographical errors have been          
corrected3 8,scabies0 replaced by       
8,scabios01 8for for0 by 8for01         
8,safforn0 replaced by 8,saffron01 and  
8harh0 by 8hath04