,,transcriber',s ,,note3 ,italic text is denoted by underscores4 ,illustration3 ,book ,cover4 ,,transcriber',s ,,note4 ,the cover image was created by the transcriber and is placed in the public domain4 ,a ,,collection ,,of ,seven and ,fifty approved ,,receipts ,good againt the ,,plague4 ,taken out of the ,five ,books of that ,renowned ,dr4 ,,don ,,alexes ,secrets1 for the benefit of the poorer ort of people of thee ,nations4 ,by ,w4 ,j4 ,gent4 ,illustration ,,london1 ,printed by ,peter ,lillicrap1 for ,john ,wingfield at the ,bible and ,anchor in ,tower-street near ,mark-lane end4 #affe4 ,illustration ,the ,author to the ,,reader4 ,courteous ,reader1 ,illustration3 ,i through ,gods divine providence1 have had at everal times1 great occaion to make ue of ,medicines for the health of my own body1 as namely in the year #afdb1 for ,cuts and ,shots1 where then ,i came acquainted1 and into familiarity with ,mater ,george ,dunne ,chyrurgion1 ,mater ,leadbeater the ,apothecary1 ,mater ,guye1 ,mater ,hicks1 and ,mater ,nicholas ,culpepper1 by whoe familiarity ,i lot nothing1 in the end of ,september #affc our houe was viited with the ,plague1 one died before we knew what it was1 the family was five in number1 ,i lay in the ame bedding the deceaed dyed out of1 he dyed full of the marks1 ,i had a ,boyle in my ,groyne that never brake1 but went away by purging and vomiting1 my fellow had one that brake1 yet none dyed but the firt1 ,i helpt to ,coffin about ix perons1 in one family at that time1 yet by ,gods providence am yet alive1 in the year #afdi1 ,i had a long icknes from ,midomer till ,chritmas1 of that mierable dieae called the griping or plague of the ,guts1 which caued me to earch all publick means for cure1 and having pent what means ,i had upon ,doctors like the woman that had the bloudy ,iue3 ,and all gave me over for dead1 ,i betook me to earch for directions in books1 and after the reading of many providence guided me to light upon the mot excellent and approved ,works of that famous ,doctor named ,,don ,,alexes1 a man well killed in the ,latine ,greek1 ,hebrew ,chaldes and ,arabick tongues1 and of divers other ,nations and ,countreys1 he being naturally inclined and took a ingular pleaure in ,phyloophy1 and in the ecrets of nature1 he travelled even and twenty years to gain knowledge1 the five books were tranlated into ,englih by ,mater ,william ,ward and ,mater ,richard ,andrews and ,dedicated unto the ,right honourable ,francis ,lord ,ruell ,earl of ,bedford1 but let ,i hould make my ,porch greater then my building1 ,i do refer thoe that would be further atisfied1 unto thoe five books aforeaid1 where they hall finde every one inerted1 ,i gathered them at firt for my own perticular private ue1 but conidering the carcity of the books and altogether at an extraordinary dear rate1 ,i have for the publick benefit of all men expoed them to the care of the ,printer to erve for publick ue4 ,june #ab1 #affe4 ,w4 ,j4 ,illustration ,a ,collection of ,seven and fifty ,receipts good againt the ,plague4 ,,contents4 ,chapter4 ,page ,introduction4 ,introduction #a4 ,an approved ,remedy againt the ,petilence be it never o vehement4 #a #b4 ,a very good perfume againt the ,plague4 #a #c4 ,another very good ,remedy againt the ,plague4 #a #d4 ,for him that is ick of the ,plague4 #a #e4 ,a marvellous preervative againt the ,plague4 #a #f4 ,an approved good ointment to make an ,impotume break and the ,plague ore to fall off4 #a #g4 ,another remedy againt the ,plague4 #a #h4 ,another very good ,remedy againt the ,plague4 #a #i4 ,another perfect ,receipt againt the ,plague4 #a #aj4 ,another againt the ,plague4 #a #aa4 ,a thing often experimented againt the ,plague4 #a #ab4 ,a preervative againt the ,plague proved oftentimes4 #a #ac4 ,another4 #a #ad4 ,in a upect time of the ,plague4 #a #ae4 ,another mot excellent ,medicine good againt the ,plague4 #a #af4 ,a rare and perfect ecret againt the ,plague4 #a #ag4 ,another very rare approved ,receipt4 #a #ah4 ,to make a ,carbuncle and all other ,botches ,impotumes and ,plague ores to break1 a preent remedy and very aie to be made4 #a #ai4 ,a very good ,remedy againt the ,marks of the ,plague commonly called ,gods marks or ,god tokens4 #a #bj4 ,againt the mortality of the ,petilence an approved remedy4 #a #ba4 ,to make little round balls good againt the ,plague4 #a #bb4 ,a very perfect oyl againt the ,plague and all manner of poyon4 #a #bc4 ,a marvelous ecret for to preerve a man from the ,plague4 #a #bd4 ,a very ure and perfect remedy to cure a man of the ,petilence4 #a #be4 ,a preent remedy to heal the ,petilence by drawing out the venome from the ore approved4 #a #bf4 ,how to make balls to mell to in time of the ,plague4 #a #bg4 ,an excellent perfume for a chamber in the time of a ,plague or ,petilence4 #a #bh4 ,againt the ,plague4 #a #bi4 ,another againt the ,plague4 #a #cj4 ,a preervative in time of ,petilence1 and againt all venome or poyon1 and againt the biting of a mad ,dog4 #a #ca4 ,an approved compoition as well to preerve as to heal1 very good in the time of a contagious ,plague4 #a #cb4 ,another mot excellent ,compoition1 and a very good preervative againt the ,petilence often tried and experienced4 #a #cc4 ,another compoition in powder1 but in another manner for the ame purpoe4 #a #cd4 ,common ,pills very good for the ame4 #a #ce4 ,antidotes or ,medicines1 and comfortable preervative of mall cot eaie to find that poor people may prepare for themelves4 #a #cf4 ,another rare ,medicine4 #a #cg4 ,it is requiite to peak omething of a avour and weet mell2 as powders balls waters and perfumes1 and firt of a powder and firt of a powder for many purpoes4 #a #ch4 ,another weet melling ball4 #a #ci4 ,another weet ball more weet for the ummer4 #a #dj4 ,of five outward ,remedies1 to purge the ,aire1 the preentet and eaiet and of mallet price for perons low in etate and condition4 #a #da4 ,eight ,cauions for the whole um of governing of mans body epecially in the time of the ,plague4 #a #db4 ,a overain powder againt the venome of the ,plague1 fit for ,princes and ,rich people4 #a #dc4 ,how to make a powder for the poorer ort of people4 #a #dd4 ,how with little cot to make a drink for the poor4 #a #de4 ,a drink that hath been proved good againt the ,plague4 #a #df4 ,how opiate is made4 #a #dg4 ,how to make a drink meat after the taking of ,opiate1 or to be mixed with the ,opiate for the tronget or meanet men according to the time and place4 #a #dh4 ,how to make a good drink for the poor4 #a #di4 ,how to make a drink to caue one to weat4 #a #ej4 ,how to make a drink eaie for the poor of low price4 #a #ea4 ,how to provoke weat and heal the ,plague4 #a #eb4 ,an excellent preervative againt the ,plague4 #a #ec4 ,another againt the ,plague4 #a #ed4 ,how to make another preervative againt the ,plague4 #a #ee4 ,another preervative againt the ,plague4 #a #ef4 ,how to make a good water againt the ,plague or ,surfeite4 #a #eg4 ,how to purifie the ,air in a ,plague time4 #a ,,chap4 #a4 ,an approved ,remedy againt the ,petilence be it never o vehement4 ,take an ,ounion and cut him overthwart1 then make a little hole in each peece1 the which you hall fill with fine ,triacle1 then et the pieces together again as they were before1 then wrap them in a white linnen cloth4 ,putting it o to ,roat in the ,embers and ,ahes1 then when it is ,roated enough pres out all the juice of it3 and give the patient a poonful thereof to drink1 and o by ,gods help he hall feel eae and mot undoubtedly be healed4 ,,chap4 #b4 ,a very good perfume againt the ,plague4 ,take ,matick1 ,cyprus1 ,incence1 ,mace1 ,wormwood1 ,mirrhe1 ,lignum ,aloe1 ,tegname ,muk1 ,ambergreie1 ,timioma1 ,nutmugges1 ,mirtle-tree1 ,bay-tree1 ,roemary1 ,saige1 ,roes1 ,elder1 ,cloves1 ,juniper1 ,rue1 ,pitch1 and a kind of ,raw-pitch1 called in ,latine ,raie1 tamp all thee together mixe them well et them on the embers1 or ,coles and o perfume the ,chamber4 ,,chap4 #c4 ,another very good ,remedy againt the ,plague4 ,take the ,ripe berries of a ,bay-tree1 then pill off the black kin that is upon them1 beat them into powder with a little ,salt1 and as oon as the party perceiveth himelf infected with the ,plague1 and that he begin to have a hot ,fevor1 he mut take a poonful of the aid powder1 mixt with a little ,vineger and water1 let him heat it a little and drinke it1 and then covering himelf warm leep1 leeping oundly by ,gods help he hall be cured in a hort time1 but if the ,fevor come with a cold1 intead of ,vineger he mut take wine1 and then do as is aid before1 this hath been experimented on many in the lat great ,plague time4 ,,chap4 #d4 ,for him that is ick of the ,plague4 ,take white ,dittany1 ,turmentill1 white ,corall1 ,genitine1 ,bole ,armoniack1 ,terra igilata1 and ,endive1 water of ,scabius1 and the ,accedent coming upon him1 this mut be made at leat four hours before it be ued1 take of the aid things tamped each one by it elf1 and put them everally in glaes1 and make of all of them a drink at your own dicretion1 making the ,vineger mount in the glas a little above the other things1 and let the patient take it hot1 covering himelf hot in his bed untill he weat1 and by ,gods help he hall undoubtedly be ,cured4 ,,chap4 #e4 ,a marvellous preervative againt the ,plague4 ,to make this take white ,ditany1 round ,aritolochia1 with ,crocodilium otherwie called ,cardina1 or ,cordua1 with ,voruine1 ,gentian1 ,zeduarie1 an hearb called in ,latine1 pes midi1 of each of them two ,ounces1 tamp all thee together with a ,handful of ,rue1 then take a glas that holdeth at leat three quarts1 and fill it with the bet wine you can find1 whereinto you hall put all the foreaid things1 and let it tand o in your houe1 and in dangerous times take every morning a glas full of the aid wine before you go out of your houe1 but firt oberve to eat a ,walnut a ,fige and a branch or two of ,rue1 do this every morning4 ,,chap4 #f4 ,an approved good ointment to make an ,impotume break and the ,plague ore to fall off4 ,to make this take a quantity of ,oyl of ,olive and et it on the fire in ome firme veel1 put thereto fine ,cerus or ,white ,lead well tamped together1 literage of ilver very fine and thine1 with a quantity of ,common wax1 et it on the fire untill you may pread it with your finger upon a mooth tone1 then take it from the fire and power a little ,vineger upon it1 but have a care of your face1 then make a ,plaiter of this ointment1 as big as all the ore1 and make a hole in the midt thereof the breadth of a penny1 make then a little plaiter of uppling ointment the bignes of the hole1 then make another plaiter of the ame bignes1 and lay it on the uppling plaiter1 the mortifying plaiter be between both1 let this lye twenty four hours1 then change onely the middle plaiter1 letting it o lye twenty four hours longer1 but remember to annoint the top of the ore with ome ,hogs uite1 or ,hen or ,capons greae to mollifie it1 o it will be hard in the middle1 and round about it will be tender fleh1 in uch ort that the ore will break and come forth about the end of forty and eight hours1 take of the foreaid plaiters1 and lay upon it another plaiter made with freh ,hogs greae1 then will the dead fleh fall out with the core1 like unto a round half ,ball1 but the hole will remain which you mut dres with healing ointment1 you mut trow burnt ,alum beaten to powder to eat the dead or rather proud fleh away4 ,,chap4 #g4 ,another remedy againt the ,plague4 ,take the topes of ,rue a ,garlick-head1 or half a quarter of a ,walnut1 and a corn of ,salt1 eat this every morning continuing o a moneth together1 this is alo good againt the worms both in young and old4 ,,chap4 #h4 ,another very good ,remedy againt the ,plague4 ,take a quantity of the water of wilde ,purley1 called in ,greek ,meliophillon1 ,melephilo1 and ,melenon1 and in ,latine ,apiatrum1 with ,plantine water1 of each of thee a like quantity in everal glaes1 take daily of this mixing equall quantities together in a mall glas1 and then you hall drink thereof1 o by the bleing of ,god you hall be preerved and keept afe from the infection of the ,plague1 this water is alo good for ,fitula's and hath been often proved true by experience4 ,,chap4 #i4 ,another perfect ,receipt againt the ,plague4 ,fill a ,glas a third part full of fine ,triacle1 and one third part with ,aquavit1 and fill the other third part with the ,urine of a man childe that is a virgin and healthfull mixe all thee well together1 and give the patient to drink a glas full three mornings one after another1 this was proved in ,venice in the year #aejd and in ,london in the lat great ,plague4 ,,chap4 #aj4 ,another againt the ,plague4 ,as oon as the party feeleth himelf infected1 let him wallow a quantity of the bet ,triacle1 then take of the ame ,triacle the bignes of a ,chenut1 and lay it on the ore that beginneth to rie1 rubbing it well round about with the ame ,triacle1 then immediately take a young ,pegion and cut him in the midt quick feathers and all1 lay him to the ore warm as he is in his feathers1 let him lye till that part of the ,pegion become green1 and the ,triacle red1 then take it off1 and you hall perceive1 that out of the ,pegion will come a green water1 which is all the venome that was in the ore1 then cure the place with this following plaiter1 take two parts of freh ,barrows greae1 and one part of ,wormwood well tamped and lay it upon the ore and the effect followeth4 ,,chap4 #aa4 ,a thing often experimented againt the ,plague4 ,take two ,ounces of ,matick1 one ,ounce of ,euphorbium1 five ,ounces of ,spignard1 beat thee into powder and give it the patient to drink1 if he be under ten years of age give him but a ,scruple of it1 if betwixt ten and twenty years of age give him half a dram1 if above twenty years old give him a dram1 then take the hearb called in ,greek ,pentaphylon1 in ,latine ,quinque folium1 in ,englih ,cinkfoil1 and wrap it like a round ,apple in a linnen cloath lay it o under the embers a certain time1 and having taken it out1 cut it in three pieces in the middle1 and lay it upon the ore1 this will give immediate eae unto the patient proved and experimented many times4 ,,chap4 #ab4 ,a preervative againt the ,plague proved oftentimes4 ,in a dangerous time take three branches of ,rue1 a ,walnut and a ,fig1 eat all this and your tomach hall be fenced againt ,infection4 ,,chap4 #ac4 ,another4 ,take ,vineger1 the juce of a white ,ounion1 the juce of ,rue and of ,milfoil1 ,yarrow1 or ,noe-bleed1 of each of them alike quantity mixe all together1 and give the patient a glas full very hot1 but let it be before the ixth hour after the pain hath taken him1 then make him weat in a warm bed1 this hath been an approved remedy4 ,,chap4 #ad4 ,in a upect time of the ,plague4 ,take ,pennirial with ,suger ,ruet1 make an ,electuary1 eat the bignes of a ,chenut at breakfat this hath been proved and found good4 ,,chap4 #ae4 ,another mot excellent ,medicine good againt the ,plague4 ,take ,walnuts that are green tender and good to ,confecture1 or ,preerves1 put them in ,vineger the pace of eight days1 then take them out again1 and break them in pieces1 then put them into the ,limbeck1 without ,vineger1 and till the water of them2 the patient hall drink every day a mall half glas full and after drinking of this potion1 let him weat well in his bed4 ,,chap4 #af4 ,a rare and perfect ecret againt the ,plague4 ,take an ,ounce of ,aloes ,epaticum1 half an ,ounce of ,mirrhe1 half an ,ounce of ,saforne beaten into powder1 ift the ,aloes and ,mirrhe together1 then teep and oake the ,saforne1 or wah it with ,white wine that is very trong1 o that it be like auce1 put then the other powder to it1 and mixe all well together1 if need require you may put more ,wine to it o make thereof a pate1 and o make pills of the ame1 but if you will have it very trong put to every ,ounce half an ,ounce of ,diagridum and half an ,ounce of ,camphire1 ,mr4 ,francis ,albert took three eight parts of the aid pills without ,diagridum1 oaking them in good ,wine and gave them to his patient as oon as he could and caued him to weat much in his bed and by weating diolved the venome4 ,,chap4 #ag4 ,another very rare approved ,receipt4 ,take the flowers or blooms of ,walnuts1 dry them in the hadow1 and when the nuts be in eaon to confect1 you hall cut part of them into mall pieces1 putting the ame into mall ,vineger for three days1 then take them out and mingle flowers ditilling them through a ,limbeck of glas1 or of earth1 well leaded1 keep this water diligently1 and when any man feeleth himelf infected with the ,plague1 give preently to him two ,ounces or three ,ounces more or les as the party is in years or trength1 and he hall looe his dieae by toole or by vomit1 or ele it will force the ore to come forth1 which you may ripen and break and draw forth the core and o heal the ame as is before declared4 ,,chap4 #ah4 ,to make a ,carbuncle and all other ,botches ,impotumes and ,plague ores to break1 a preent remedy and very eaie to be made4 ,take bay ,salt well beaten into powder and erced1 incorporate it with the yolk of an ,egge then lay it on the ,carbuncle or ore1 and be you aured that by ,gods grace it will take away all the venome and poyon of the ,plague ore1 o that in hort time he hall be cured2 this ,remedy hath been often proved4 ,,chap4 #ai4 ,a very good ,remedy againt the ,marks of the plague commonly called ,gods marks or ,god tokens4 ,take freh and green ,rhopenticum1 which is the hearb and root called ,themore or great ,centory1 it is named of ,pliny1 as ,bulius doth write 7,rhacoma7 with the roots of the hearb called ,sanguinaria dactillon1 of ome ,dens ,canis1 of ,diocordious it is called ,coronopus1 that is to ay ,crows foot1 ome take it to be ,dandelion1 take therewith the roots of ,turmiltill1 and white ,dittany1 of each of thee an ,ounce1 tamp all well then put them in a pot or violl with clear water at your dicretion1 rather too much then too little1 till it pas three handfulls above the other things in the pot2 then boyle it with a clear fire without moak1 untill one third part be deminihed then train it oftly into a clean glas and it will be of the colour of wine1 when neceity doth require you may give the patient a glas full in the morning and another at night two hours before upper1 but it mut be very hot1 then cover him well in his bed and make him weat1 when the ,marks come forth he hall become like a ,lazer or a ,lepper and by ,gods bleing hall recover in a hort time and be perfectly whole4 ,,chap4 #bj4 ,againt the mortality of the ,petilence an approved remedy4 ,take ,gentian1 ,seduaria1 roots of ,turmentille of each of them two ,ounces1 ,red ,sandal1 white and ,recent1 ,ditany1 ,harts horn burnd1 white pearl1 bole ,armoniack round ,aritolochia1 of each of them an ,ounce1 half an ,ounce of ,camphere1 two ,ounces of white ,suger3 of all thee things beaten together into powder you hall take at every time a dram with three ,ounces as ,endive water1 or ,sorrell water1 mixe the water and the ,suger with the bignes of a ,walnut of fine ,triacle1 you mut miniter this ,medicine before the icknes have continued with the peron twelve hours for it is the urer1 if the patient be an infant then give him but half a dram of it with an ,ounce and a half of one of the aid waters1 and with the like quantity of ,triacle1 this drink is neither olvable nor laxative1 nor doth caue any grief to the patient but onely killeth the poyon1 if any peron have drunk or eaten any poyon it is a very good ,medicine for him1 it is alo very good againt a hot fevor or ,ague1 note alo that if it be poible the patient mut be let bloud before he take this or uddenly after4 ,,chap4 #ba4 ,to make little round balls good againt the ,plague4 ,take of ,labdanum1 half an ,ounce1 ,storax ,calamica one ,ounce1 ,diambre1 two grains of ,camphere1 fifteen grains of ,cloves1 ,nutmukes and ,mace of each of them an eight part1 a cruple of ,damak ,roes1 half a dram of ,cinamon1 fifteen grains of ,spignard1 ,muk and ,civit1 of each of them eight grains half a dram of fine ,violets1 four grains of ,lignum ,aloes the bignes of a bean of ,calomie ,aromanticie1 four grains of fine ,amber1 the bignes of a bean of ,mirrhe1 firt tamp the ,labdanum with a hot ,petle1 then tamp well the ,storax ,calatim1 and all the other things each by it elf and then mixe all together and tamp them till with a petle ading to it at every time ,storax laquide and ,roe water untill all the aid things be well incorporated1 and then make round balls thereof to mell to or ue at your own dicretion4 ,,chap4 #bb4 ,a very perfect oyl ,againt the ,plague and all manner of poyon4 ,take of the oldet oyl you can get1 and boyl it the pace of an hour1 and for every pound of the aid oyl put in fifty ,scorpions or as many as you can get1 put all this in a pot uncovered et the pot in a ,kettle of boyling water untill the third part of the oyl or omewhat les be conumed1 then take out the ,scorpions and train the oyl into another pot1 then top it cloe1 and et it in the ,sun three moneths1 or by the fire on hot ,ahes the pace of four days1 but firt put in two ,ounces of ,unicorns horn1 one ,ounce of ,triacle1 three ,ounces of ,aquavit1 when any peron feeleth himelf infected with the ,plague or poyon let him be annointed with the aid oyl about the heart and pules and he hall finde a marvelous effect4 ,,chap4 #bc4 ,a marvelous ecret for to preerve a man from the ,plague and hath been proved in ,england of all the ,phyicians in that great and vehement ,plague in the year #acdh1 and in the year #afbe in ,london1 that in the year #acdh crept throughout all the known world1 and ,authors affirm that there was never any peron that ued this ecret but was by ,gods grace preerved from the ,plague4 ,take ,aloe ,epaticum1 or ,cicotrim1 fine ,cinamon1 of each of thee three drams1 ,cloves1 ,mace ,lignum ,aloe1 ,matick1 bole ,armoniake of each of them half a dram1 let all thee things be well tamped together in a ,morter1 then mingle them together1 then keep it in a cloe veel1 and take thereof every morning two penny weight in half a glafull of white wine1 with a little water1 drink it in the morning at the dawning of the day1 and o you may by the grace of ,god go hardily into all infection of the ,aire and receive no damage by the ,plague4 ,,chap4 #bd4 ,a very ure and perfect remedy to cure a man of the ,petilence4 ,take the berries of ,ivie1 that groweth on trees or walls1 and not of them that are found on the ground1 you mut gather the aid berries very ripe and toward the north if it be poible if not take them as you can get them2 although they be not very ripe1 dry them in the hadow and keep them in a wooden box as a mot precious thing1 and if any be infected with the ,petilence1 beat the aid berries to powder in a clean ,morter1 and give the patient the aid powder in a glafull of white wine1 as much as will lye upon a groat or more2 then cover him in his bed and caue him to weat1 then change his hirt1 heets and all the coverings of his bed if it be poible1 if not at leat change hirt and heets1 ome having taken this over night have found themelves well in the morning1 and cured4 ,my ,author affirmeth that in the year #aebc he aw in ,aleppo ,amilanos that had two ,plague ores one under his thigh and another under his left arm1 and having taken the aid powder morning and evening he found that the aid ores brake of themelves by virtue of this excellent ,medicine1 ent and blet by ,god himelf who giveth undertanding unto man1 it is good for all perons to have o eaie a thing ready by them4 ,,chap4 #be4 ,a preent remedy to heal the ,petilence by drawing out the venome from the ore approved4 ,take a quick ,hen and pluck the ,rump and place where he layeth egges quite bare1 then et her o that the bare place may be upon the grief1 that he may be held upon the ore1 a great while the ,hen draweth all the poyon to her elf1 or at leat o much as will eae the patient1 hortly after he will dye1 you may do this with three or four everal ,hens immediately one after another they will draw all the venome from the ore1 then anoint the place with good ,triacle uing the ,ivie and bay berries and other remedies before decribed to break draw and heal the ore4 ,,chap4 #bf4 ,how to make balls to mell to in time of the ,plague4 ,take one part of ,storax one part of ,libdany halfe a part of ,cloves1 um ,camphere1 ,aquavit of ,spignard1 um ,nutmukes of all thee make a pate with ,roe water wherein you mut diolve um ,gum dragon and ,gum ,araback1 work them well together1 make of this balls to hold in your hands to mell at4 ,,chap4 #bg4 ,an excellent perfume for a chamber in the time of a ,plague or ,petilence4 ,take of ,storax1 ,calamica1 ,bengewine1 ,lignie1 ,aloes1 of each an ,ounce1 five ,ounces of ,coals of ,willow beaten into powder1 mixe thee things with ,aquavit1 as much as will make them into a pate1 make thereof little ,cakes or what forms you pleae1 and o keep them1 when you ue them put a little of them on a ,chafing dih and in conuming them by little and little they will make a ingular good ,odour in the place where you burn the ame4 ,,chap4 #bh4 ,againt the ,plague4 ,take three ,ounces of the ,liquor of the inner rinde of an ,ah tree and till it with three ,ounces of white ,wine1 give the patient to drink of it every three hours and by ,gods help within twenty four hours he hall be well4 ,,chap4 #bi4 ,another againt the ,plague4 ,take three ,ounces of ,walnuts that be not yet full ripe1 prepared and ditilled at ,midomer1 and let the patient drink thereof and he hall be whole1 but it will be better to take the outward pills of ,walnuts in ,september when they be black1 o that they be not rotten1 and ditill them and give the patient a glafull thereof to drink very warm he being let blood this will help him much4 ,,chap4 #cj4 ,a preervative in time of ,petilence1 and againt all venome or poyon1 and againt the biting of a mad ,dog4 ,if you eat before meals a ,walnut or two1 two dry ,figs1 and ome leaves of ,garden ,rue with a corn of ,salt1 it will be a great and good preervative againt the ,plague1 and againt all poyon that a man eateth1 the ame being tamped and laid to the byting of a mad ,dog it healeth it1 o do ,nutmukes work the like effect4 ,,chap4 #ca4 ,an approved compoition as well to preerve as to heal1 very good in the time of a contagious ,plague4 ,take an ,ounce of the bet ,triacle1 half an ,ounce of the juce of ,lemons1 a ,scruple of ,saforne1 a little of the two orts of ,pearls1 ,red ,corall and ,sorrell eed1 of each half a dram1 two grains of ,camphere1 mingle all thee together very well with two or three drops of ,odeferious white wine1 and make thereof an ointment1 pread a quantity thereof upon a piece of ,crimon ilke lay this hot upon the patients heart and remove it morning and evening4 ,,chap4 #cb4 ,another mot excellent ,compoition1 and a very good preervative againt the ,petilence often tried and experienced4 ,take a ,pimpernell dried an ounce and a half of ,sordii ,veti1 ome ,roots of ,gentian1 ,imparatory1 ,zedoari1 of each ix drams1 ,calamint ,apiatrum1 or ,citraginie1 ,enuly ,campanie ,roots ,tormentille1 which is a kind of ,cinkfoile1 ,bay berries the eed of ,cardus ,benedictus1 which is one of the kinds of the herb called ,atriactilie1 with an ,oringe of ,citron1 ,oxiladis1 which is a kind of ,sorrell1 bole ,armoniack prepared of each three ,drachmes ,lickorih craped1 ,clycaniie ,seminis the eeds of ,scatiola1 which is ,mubus ,sativa1 of the kinds of ,endive and ,succory1 ,cinamonie1 exquiitie1 of each two drams ,gilli-flowers1 ,red ,roes and ,coriander1 prepared1 the eed of ,baill1 ,cortiis ,citrie ,fixie1 ,santuly luteie vel raboi ,agalochi1 that is ,xilaloe ,ligni ,aloes1 the craping of ,ivory and red ,coral1 ,pearls of each a dram and a half1 and two ,scruples of ,saforne beat all thee very mall mingle them with ,sugar of equall quantity1 or ele with ,oxemelite1 or ,sirupo aceratoe1 or ,oxyfacchata1 or rather the irrup of ,lemons1 but for weak tomacks make like to ,lickquid confection1 either1 ,opiate vel ,maee1 or ele let there be an ,electuary pertabellas of a dram weight1 or four cruples1 then adde unto every ounce or ,suger1 a dram of the aid powder1 then take thereof two or three hours before your meals1 if it be in powder take a dram or half a dram at the leat1 with ome convenient liquor of thoe which are now named if it be opiate1 the quantity or a ,chetnut or a ,walnut if it be in form of a mas and thick make two or three pills or more very oft for to take at one time drinking after the ame um of the ,liquors already mentioned when it is in little tablits you may take one or two or more at your dicretion4 ,,chap4 #cc4 ,another compoition in powder1 but in another manner for the ame purpoe4 ,take the ,roots of ,angilica1 ,gentian1 ,zedoaria1 of the roots of ,tormentille the eeds of ,coxalidas ,citrie ,mallie1 ,cinamon1 elect with a kind of ,caia of yellow or red ,sandal or ,sanders ,cardus ,benedictus of each two drams1 a dram and a half of ,oringe ,pills1 one dram of the crapings of ,ivory1 half a dram of red ,corrall the like weight of fine ,sugar1 put to all thee things as the powder hall eem pleaant and good1 or if you will eek another way as is poken of in the firt preervative1 as concerning the quantity of this compoition1 at every time1 and the time of uing it let it be as the other before1 but if you will have them both let them not be of a like ort1 but the one being in powder in tablits the other in ,opiat1 or mas1 with pills4 ,,chap4 #cd4 ,common ,pills very good for the ame4 ,take ,aloes prob1 and ,lote1 two ounces1 one ounce of ,saforne1 one ounce of good ,mirrhe1 or ele ,mirrhe and ,ammoniacum1 diolved in white wine of each half an ounce1 mixe them together with hony ,roet1 but in winter you may put ,zedoaria1 ,agallochi1 or ,red ,sandis of each of them a dram1 but in ummer take away the ,mirrhe and ,amoniacum and put to it bole ,armoniacke prepared three drams1 half a dram of ,red ,corrall with a cruple of ,camphere to take commonly a pill or two before your meals1 ometimes a dram after your firt leep as you hall prove by experience4 ,,chap4 #ce4 ,antidotes or ,medicines1 and comfortable preervative of mall cot eaie to find that poor people may prepare for themelves4 #a4 ,take ,garlick and drink a little wine after it1 or a ,fig with a ,walnut and ,rue and a little alt pecially in winter4 #b4 ,take twenty leaves of ,rue with two ,walnuts and as many ,figs and a grain of ,salt all being mixt together receive it in the morning4 #c4 ,take ix leaves of ,rue with ,vineger4 #d4 ,take the ,root of the herb called in ,latine ,imperatora1 of um ,lacopitium1 ,gallicum4 #e4 ,take the ,root of ,angelica4 #f4 ,the ,roots of ,gentian4 #g4 ,the ,root of ,zedarie4 #h4 ,of ,cardus ,benedictus4 #i4 ,of ,garlina4 #aj4 ,take the herb called ,scordium in mall powder the quantity of a dram1 either in a oft mas made with odden honey and vineger1 or with ome irrup as of ,lemons or in ,opiat the bignes of a ,chenut1 or of a mall ,peae with wine in winter1 in ummer with ,roe water1 or with the juce of ,sorrell4 #aa4 ,sorrell alone or with ,pimpernell in ,vineger and drink of it in the morning4 #ab4 ,or the juce of them wherewith you may make a tate in ummer4 #ac4 ,or ,juniper berries1 the leaves of green ,pimpernell of ,bittany of ,pulegion of ,sorrell of each a like quantity brayed together and odden in honey1 put thereto a little ,vineger like a conerve4 ,,chap4 #cf4 ,another rare ,medicine4 ,take ,juniper berries1 bole ,armoniack1 of each two drams or of both alike quantity being tamped lay it in weet oyl and ,vineger or in ,oxmillite1 in the mean form either ,opiat or mas4 ,if it be ,opiat take as much as a ,chetnut1 if it be ,mas take one great ,pill1 and drink after it a little ,hidromill or ,oximill or wine4 ,,chap4 #cg4 ,it is requiite to peak omething of a avour and weet mell2 as powders balls waters and perfumes1 and firt of a powder for many purpoes4 ,take four ounces of ,ivie ,florientiana1 of ,margrom ,cloves and ,red ,roes of each an ounce of ,milliophilie1 ,nucie ,odoratee or ,mucate ,zedorie1 ,cinamon ,agallochi1 yellow1 ,sanders1 ,matick ,storax ,calamita and ,bengroin1 half an ounce of each1 and two cruples of ,juncus odoratus1 ,calami odoravie1 ,syici ,nardiradicie one dram of each4 ,make of thee a powder to mell1 to be beaten or broken1 in ome piece of fine ilke or a peece of fine linnen cloth1 beat all thee things groly for to perfume and wah your head and beard1 or let them lye a time in white wine and ,roe water1 and train them1 keeping the water to ue when you pleae1 or you may till them in a double veel1 that they may be ,aqua ,aromatica1 this being laid upon the coals is to perfume your chamber twice every day morning and evening1 it is good alo to wear about you or to put in a little bag and lay it amongt linnen or woollen cloathes4 ,,chap4 #ch4 ,another weet melling ball4 ,take two ounces of pure ,labdanum1 one ounce and a half of ,bengroine one ounce of ,willow coals of ,storax ,calamita1 ix drams1 two drams1 a peece of ,marjoram1 and yellow or red ,sanders1 of red ,roes and ,calainus ,aramaticus1 two cruples a peece1 then take ix drams of oyl of weet ,almonds and as much of ,bengroin1 with half an ounce of ,storax ,calamita ithe thee things together then put thereto ix drams of ,roe water4 ,then train it1 and let that which is trained1 be oft made with two ounces of white wax1 and put to it of ,storax liquida1 one dram1 make it like as ,cereatum1 or plaiter incorporate thee together with a hot petle putting thereto a dram and a half of muk4 ,,chap4 #ci4 ,another weet ball more weet for the ummer4 ,take three ounces and a half a peece of ,roes and ,violets with an ounce a peece of the berries and leaves of ,mirtle1 and the coals of ,willow1 ix drams a peece1 of ,juniper berries and ,oringe pills1 two drams of red ,sanders1 one dram of ,bengroin with two cruples of ,camphere1 make a powder of thee1 then take an ounce and a half of oyl of ,roes1 with two drams a peece of ,storax ,calamita1 and ,bengroine1 with an ounce of ,roe water with two ounces of white wax1 beat all the ret together with a hot petle1 put to it a little muk and ue it4 ,,chap4 #dj4 ,of five outward ,remedies1 to purge the ,aire1 the preentet and eaiet and of mallet price for perons low in etate and condition4 ,firt take ,juniper berries with ome of the root cloven aunder and dried with ome of the forementioned drugs and make thereof a perfume this is good to purge the ,air4 ,secondly1 prinkle your ,chamber with ,vineger alone or mixed with ,roe water4 ,thirdly1 when you are to go out into company1 put into your mouth the ,pill or eed of a ,cittorn1 or ,cinamon1 or ,cloves or the ,roots of ,angelica1 or ,zedoarie or uch as are before mentioned1 hold thee in your mouth and chaw them for you hall finde that they will give a good odour4 ,fourthly1 if you deire to mell to a punge or to a ,hancherchief both day and night1 ,malmey or other trong wine and weet2 uch as are ,mucadell alone or ele with ,roe water1 wherein there hath been tempered ome ,aromaticall drug already poken of1 and alo ,cloves and ,nutmukes1 are very good for this purpoe4 ,fifthly1 if it be in ummer take a little ,camphere1 with a little cold water and twice o much ,vineger1 this is alo very good4 ,,chap4 #da4 ,eight ,cauions for the whole um of governing of mans body epecially in the time of the ,plague4 #a4 ,it is neceary that you keep every thing neat and clean in your houe often wahing and cleaning the ame1 and that as much as in you lyeth you do avoid going into all evil ,aire4 #b4 ,be ure that you flye all exces of ,riot and uperfluity of intemperate eating and drinking1 and with all the carnall company of women4 #c4 ,when you travell walk moderately and overheat not your elf1 neither leep in the day time1 but moderately in the night1 avoid as much as you may inordinate watching4 ,,chap4 #db4 ,a overain powder againt the venome of the ,plague1 fit for ,princes and ,rich people4 ,take ,saphire ,hiacinthe ,smaragdus1 of one or two or of all of thee one dram1 of pearls bole ,armoniack of the bet1 with the eeds of ,oxalie of each of thee two drams1 of the crapings of ,ivory two cruples of ,unicorns horn one cruple1 of the eed of ,ocinum1 half a cruple1 yellow or red ,sanders ,agalocchi or ,xilaloes of the bet1 ,doronicie1 ,cinamon1 exquiite ,saffone of each three grains ix grains of ,muk1 make of thee a fine powder1 and leave out the muk for them that love it not1 the ue of the aid powder and others that follow hall be declared hereafter if ,god permit4 ,,chap4 #dc4 ,how to make a powder for the poorer ort of people4 ,take two drams of bole ,armoniack with three drams of the ,seeds of ,oxalis1 ,aloes ,epeticum ,lotum1 and ,red ,corrall of each of thee a dram1 the powder of ,diatrio ,santalon1 eight cruples with the pills of dry ,oringes1 ,cloves ,cinamon and ,saffone of each of thee five drams1 make of thee a fine powder1 you may ue the ame with conerves or without them1 with irrups or with ditilled waters1 but much rather with juces and uch convenient licquors as is before named4 ,,chap4 #dd4 ,how with little cot to make a drink for the poor4 ,take of the powder precribed for the ,poor1 ,conditiroatie1 or conerve of ,roes1 ,condii boraginis1 or rather ,coraginis of each a dram and a half two ounces of the ,suck of ,oxalis1 two ounces ,succi avantii ,coragares extract with ,roe water and of good white wine vineger of each an ounce and make thereof a drink4 ,,chap4 #de4 ,a drink that hath been proved good againt the ,plague4 ,take two drams of the powder of ,mugwort of the firt and econd ort1 the eeds of ,sanctie or of ,oringes1 of ,mirrhe of each a dram1 the crapings of ,harts horn a dram1 beat them well and mixe them together1 you mut drink this of white vineger before a fire and as oon as there appeareth any welling in the groine or flank1 or under the ,armpits1 or any where ele the remedy mut be ready1 for the medicine provoketh great weat whereby the venome or infection avoideth every part4 ,the patient thus weating by the fire his infected weat mut be rubed and dried with hot linnen cloathes1 which mut be always changed untill the avour of the weat be gone with rubbing4 ,,chap4 #df4 ,how opiate is made4 ,take of the firt or econd powder ,oringe pills conerved of each an ounce and a half1 the conerve of ,roes the conerve of ,buglos1 two ounces of each of the irrup of the juce of ,cittorns ,oringes or ,lemons or ele of ,oxalis1 or ,omphacini1 ufficient make of it a licquid ,electuary in form of an ,opiate1 whereof take an ounce or more and drink ome of the foreaid liquors and uch as here follow1 you may mingle an ounce of purlane with the aid liquor4 ,,chap4 #dg4 ,how to make a drink meat after the taking of ,opiate1 or to be mixed with the ,opiate for the tronget or meanet men according to the time and place4 ,to do this take the juce of ,cittorne or ,lemons three ounces of the wine of wore ,oringes with good white and clear vineger and ,roe water of each of thee an ounce and mixe thee all together4 ,,chap4 #dh4 ,how to make a good drink for the poor4 ,take three ounces of the juce of ,sorrell that is very clear of bitter and wore oringes1 with white and clear vineger and ,roe water of each of thee an ounce make thereof a drink1 mixe it with a little uger to make it pleaant4 ,,chap4 #di4 ,how to make a drink to caue one to weat4 ,take a dram of good ,triacle1 or a dram of ,mithridatum1 with bole ,armoniack of the bet of the powder of one of the herbs called ,cardiacee1 decribed before1 half a dram1 ,scabius water two ounces1 water of ,oxalie1 ,buglos ,borage of each an ounce and make a drink thereof4 ,,chap4 #ej4 ,how to make a drink eaie for the poor of low price4 ,take the decoction of ,scabius1 and of the flowers of red pop ge a glas full with a little uger or a little white vineger1 or a ptiane1 made with barley and ,anieeds and the roots of ,parley the roots of ,suckrey the one or the other decoction with harp irrup two ounces or a little white vineger4 ,you mut undertand that thee foreaid drinks be taken hot1 the patient being well covered in his bed the ,triacle and ,mithridate although they be of great efficacy yet are they not meet for women with childe nor for young children1 the ue of them ought not to be often nor in great quantities1 when the ,fevor is great1 ome mens advice is to mingle the medicine for weating with ome ditilled water or with the decoction of herbs1 concerning the part to which the venomous matter hath its coure1 now if a man knoweth that the mater goeth to the head1 let the patient take it with ome ditilled waters or with the decoction ,bitony1 but if it go to the vital parts1 or to the bret and heart1 with the water of the decoction of ,borage1 which is very ,buglos1 if it go to the belly and bowels with liquor of wormwood1 if to the ,liver1 then with the decoction water of ,egrimony which is the true and ,real ,zupatorium4 ,,chap4 #ea4 ,how to provoke weat and heal the ,plague4 ,take of the herb called ,rape1 with the roots of the leer ,planton and knot gras of each half a handfull bray them well and boyle them in vineger then train them through a linnen cloath1 give the ick peron of this to drink when he goeth to bed it will caue him to weat out all the ill humers4 ,,chap4 #eb4 ,an excellent preervative againt the ,plague4 ,take one ounce of the juce of green nuts1 half an ounce of the juce of ,agrimony1 three drams of the juce of ,rue1 three ounces of the juce of ,iope four ounces of the juce of hemp mingle them altogether1 then take half an ounce of the aid mixture with half a dram of mumea and half an ounce of ,suger ,candy and one dram of uger of ,roes1 an ,electuary thereof and diolve the quantity of a ,chetnut of it in good wine and drink thereof when you rie and when you go to bed4 ,,chap4 #ec4 ,another againt the ,plague4 ,take of the roots of ,turmentill finely powdered1 one dram with half a dram of ,triacle diolve it in orrell water and give it the dieaed4 ,,chap4 #ed4 ,how to make another preervative againt the ,plague4 ,take two egges and make a hole upon the top of each of them1 then take out the whites put into them o much whole ,safforne as will half fill up the egge to the middle1 cover them with other egge hells boyl them till they become red1 then bray them with all the hells1 and put thereunto of white ,diptamue and ,turmevill of each three drams of vomiting nuts one dram and a half of the eeds of ,rockit the quantity of the beaten eggs bray them all together the econd time1 then put thereunto of good ,triacle the weight of the other things except the eggs and make an electuary of the which give two drams in the morning when the patient rieth before he goes to labour4 ,,chap4 #ee4 ,another preervative againt the ,plague4 ,take ,safforne of ,setwell1 of ,turmentill of ,diptamus of each of thee one ounce of ,triacle of ,mithridate of uger of ,buglos of each eight drams with the irrup of the pills of pomecitterns1 make a electuary of the which to preerve the party1 according to his age1 if he be above the age of fifteen years give him two drams in the morning before meat with white wine1 and after it give him two ,matick ,coriander eeds1 if he be but #ad years of age give him but one dram1 and a half being under the age of #h years give him one dram1 when he goeth out of the houe let him hold in his mouth a little of the electuary2 in the curing the plague the foreaid confection mut be given as oon as he feeleth himelf to have the ,ague1 within the pace of #bd hours with the which the water of ,sumak1 the quantity aforeaid according unto age1 it helpeth all cold infirmities or griefs1 minitred with wine or with ,aquavit having firt made the univerall ,remedies of purging letting of blood and uch like4 ,,chap4 #ef4 ,how to make a good water againt the ,plague or ,surfeite4 ,take ,red age1 ,celendine ,roemary1 ,herbgras ,wormwood ,mugwort1 ,pimpernell1 ,dragons1 ,scabius ,tyromony1 ,roaolis1 and ,balm1 of each of thee a handfull or like quantity by weight1 wah and wing them in a linnen cloth1 hred them and put them into a galon of white wine with a quarter of an ounce of ,gentian roots1 and of ,angelica roots the like quantity let it tand two days and two nights cloe covered and ditill it at your pleaure that glas in which you keep it be topt very cloe4 ,,chap4 #eg4 ,how to purifie the ,air in a ,plague time4 ,take an ounce of balum1 one ounce of the flower of ,sulpher with an ounce of mirrhe powder1 all thee together put thereto as much perno as will make them into a tiffe pat then make it into little cakes then in the time of a petilence every day or every other day put one or two of thee upon a chafing dih of coals this is good aith mine ,author to purifie the ,air4 ,,finis4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,transcriber',s ,,notes4 #a4 ,chap #af3 wah it with ,whine wine that is very trong444 changed to wah it with ,white wine that is very trong4 #b4 ,chap #ej3 and of the flowers of red pop ge a444 changed to and of the flowers of red poppy4 #c4 ,preface3 ,illustrated drop-cap3 ,i ,through ,gods divine providence1444 ,the first word ,through changed to lower-case2 ,illustrated drop-cap3 ,i through ,gods divine providence1444 #c4 ,italic text is denoted by underscores4 #d4 ,silently corrected simple spelling1 grammar1 and typographical errors4 #e4 ,retained anachronistic and non-standard spellings as printed4 #f4 ,format of headings ,chapters #daeg changed to standardise with ,chapters #adj4