bee too stiffe to be streightned In those of the Plague or Poysoned eyther the flesh is soft and the joynts limber and flexible after the Body is cold Which shewes the vilenesse of Putrifaction in all the humors and moyst parts of the Body And now having found out by certain Signes the way to know this Sicknessâ— from all others It will not be amisse out of learned Authoritie to teach you how to know whether a man at the first taking or soone after be likely to be recovered or no. To know whether a man taken with the Sicknesse may be likely to recover or no. If one be taken with the first Signes of Sinking of his Spirits causlesse Sadnesse shortnesse of Breath on the suddaine that hee cannot forbeare Sighing yet knowes no cause why Sick heartednesse c. If this happen at his Meate or presently after let him if hee can Vomit If he offer and cannot Helpe him with a little warme-Warme-water and Oyle Or dip a feather in Linseed oyle or Oyle of Scorpions and thrust it into his throat Then or if he be taken betwixt Meales or Fasting Make this Draught for him Take of Bole-Armoniack j. dram powdred Iuice of Oranges halfe an ounce White Wine an ounce rose-Rose-water ij ounces Mixe them together and give it If hee Vomit it vp againe it is a Signe the venome is aboundant and has gotten great power over the vitall parts Therefore wash his mouth with a little white Wine and give him the same Potion againe If hee againe cast it up repeat the Wine lotion and this Potion againe three times This is taken out of the second Canon of Avicen by Guaynerius who testifies upon his owne knowledge that never any that at first kept it without Casting it up againe dyed of that Sicknesse GUANERIUS was an excellent skilfull Physitian And AVICENNA was accounted a Prince of Physitians they may therefore be beleeved Yet I would have none so superstitious in the certainty of this safetie as generally all are in the deadlinesse of the Tokens Of which I am perswaded any might recover that have the best coloured of them but that the custome of Ignorance hath driven away all use of meanes upon the very appearance of the Spots This I durst not hide yet perhaps like Cassandra I may bee but laugh'd at for telling the truth But this is no time to laugh Let every Man rather bee to his owne Soule and Family an AARON to take with speed his Censor of Repentance and fill it with fire from the Altar of the exceeding great and precious Promises of CHRIST 2. Pet. 1.4 and put the Incense of faithfull Prayer thereon and runne quickly Num. 16.46 and make an Attonement for there is wrath gone out from the Lord The Plague is begun Jn the Great Visitation Anno 1625. I made these Preservative Compositions Preservatives Inwardly 1 MY Electuarie which I call Antiloymon The price is 2. s. an Ounce The Quantity one or 2. Drams on a knifes point 2 My Plague Powder 9. d. a Dram. The quantitie halfe a Dram in White wine Carduus water or Posset-ale 3 My Powder of Life This is used onely in very weake bodies for Preservation and in Cure is beyond my modesty of Expression But I reserve to my selfe how it is to be used The price is 3. d. a Graine And the ordinary dose is 8.10 or 12. graines 4 For the more Ordinary sort of People I had with happy successe also I praise God My Liquor of Life The price 5. s. a Pinte The quantitie at once 2. 4. or 6. spoonefuls as the Age or strength requireth But observe that these Quantities are for Preservation onely But in Cure of the Infected Note they must be doubled 1 Also Lozenges Outward or Troeâ—isks to hold in the Mouth At 12. pence an Ounce 2 Pomanders 5. s. a peece 3 Sweet Waters for Spunges 3. s. 6. d. a pinte 4 Sweet Waters to be cast on a hot Fire-shovell to perfume a Chamber 3. s. a pinte 5 Perfumes to burne wherewith to ayre Cloaths 16 pence an ounce All these are temperate and Catholicall that is generally fit for all Constitutions And were All the Inventions of my Grand-father Mr. IOHN BANISTER that famous both Physitian and Chyrurgion in this Citie And now if any shall desire them I will quickly Prepare them againe I will nor brag what they did nor court mens beleefe like a Mountebanck I am knowne to many and the Iudious are like enough to trust me by that I have written I live in Golden-Lane over against the Signe of the Golden Flower de Luce. The Lord of Heaven in mercie looke downe vpon this Citie FINIS
of Athens that was called the Tunnell for his filthy delight in Drinke and drinking in a Tunnell What doe many in this Land too too many in this Citie but rise to Drinke drinke to fall fall a sleepe of necessity and ere they are halfe sober fall a drinking drunke againe That as VALERIVS AVRELIANVS the Emperor was wont to say of BONOSVS a Spaniard Such are borne not to live but to drinke If any of that Luxurious sect beate this time sober The dangers of Surfetting let them but listen to the testimonies of learned Experience and they will tell them into what bodily dangers they plunge themselves by this detestable disorder HIPPOCRATES has an Aphorisme to this purpose Lib. 2. Aph. 17. that Meate and Drinke immoderately taken causeth Sicknesse PAVLVS AEGINETA goes yet further saying De Re Medica lib. 1. c. 32. That the Veynes being filled too full are afflicted distended or else broken obstructed filled with winde and over-charged And of all diseases hee affirmeth That over-charging of the vessels is the worst In com 2. Hipp. de Natis 〈◊〉 GALEN affirmes that Drunkennesse and Crudities which arise from intemperance doe breed new diseases Li. de Causis Morborum cap. 3. And in another place he sayes Whereas Wine moderately taken increaseth Naturall heate as being his proper aliment by Drunkennesse commeth Astonishment of the Braine Falling sicknesse or some maime either to sence or motion And so the best meates which afford most nourishment being immoderately eaten ingender cold Diseases De Râ—movendis Nocumentis in Regimina Sanitatis Tract 4. cap. 1. But AVICEN more particularly layes downe the dangers that follow this over-repletion in these words Eating much nourisheth not but fills the Body with Crudities and raw humors stops the pores weakens the powers of Nature causes putrifaction mixed feavors short breath Sciatica and joynt Aches Ibidem cap. 19. Againe in another place hee speakes Drinking thus Much drinking of Wine in Sanguine and Chollerick Complexions over-heats the bloud and causeth Choller to superabound and by too much repletion of the veynes and Vessels there may follow a hot Apoplexie and suddaine death In Cold Complexions it breeds diseases of the Sinewes and that for two causes The first is the over-moystning of the Nerves the other the turning of the drinke into Vineger before it it can passe through the Body So the Nerves are by the former relaxed and by the latter corroded whereupon followes the cold Apoplexie Astonishment Senslesnesse Lethargie Palsey Trembling of the Limbes and convulsions of the Mouth And what these have said of Wine the same is true likewise of all other strong Drinkes I hope these lines will keepe such men the soberer in this dangerous time and in that sober tune the time may touch their hart strings so that Sobrietie may let in Religious meditations which continuall Drunkenesse has lock'd out of doores And then Repentance may draw them to GOD and him neerer to them and so they may become new Creatures Which the Father for his Sonnes sake grant In the meane time Restorative Diet for sick ones let those that are in health eate Flesh but the Sicke the Iuices of them rather because aliment must be made more easie and quicke for their supply And for such weake ones Veale Chicken Caponet Partridge and Pheasant are to be boyled till all the vertue of the meat be boyled out and then the Broth to be strained hard that the flesh may be left juicelesse so will all the strength of the meate be in the broth which you may spice with some of these powders following Take of Red Saunders halfe an ounce Cynnamon iij. drains and halfe Saffron halfe a dram Make them into fine Powder Or else Take of Cynamon halfe an ounce Cloves and Saffron of each halfe a dram Red Corall ij Scruples And the weight of all in Sugar Make of them a fine Powder But Women dum Menses ef fluunt must not use Saffron so much For such therefore this Powder is better Take Harts-horne red and yellow Saunders of each ij drams Cloves and Cynamon of each one dram Make a fine Powder Let all be more sparing in Dyet now then at other times Eate little and Drinke lesse But never goe out of doores Fasting Take therefore first of some Antidote Antidotes of which kind the Apothecaries shops are or ought to bee alwayes stored with these That is Theriaca Andromachi Theriaca Londinensis Venice Triacle London Triacle Mitridate Mithridatium Damocratis Electuarium de Ovo Imperatoris Antidotus magna Mathioli Confectio Liberans Dioscordium Of any of these take the quantity of a Nutmeg Confectio Alkernes Confectio de Hiacyntho Of eyther of these take the quantitie of an Hazell nut If you would choose to take a Powder rather Pulvis Contra Pestem Montagnanae halfe a Dram. Of Waters there is Aqua Angelicae Aqua Theriacalis Of eyther of these halfe an Ounce either with white Wine and a few drops of the juice of a Limon Or Aqua Bezoartica Langii Aqua Calestis Mathioli for the richer sort with a drop of Oyle of Vitriol in halfe an ounce of eyther But for such as abhorre the taste of Physicke and had rather take their Antidote in forme of Pills then otherwise let a skilfull Apothecarie make this masse of Pills Pillula Marsilii Ficini Rs. Zadoariae ligni aloes agrimonia croci Aristolochia rotunda Dictamni gentianae cort citri sem citri anascrup 1. Coriandri praeper tormentillae santali rub corallii râ—b spodii Myrobalan Emblic ana drach 2. Terrae sigill drach ij Boli Armeni drach 3. Cum Syrupo ex Acetositate citri fiat Massa Of which ten fifteene twenty or two shillings graines may be taken at once in one or two or three Pills as the party can swallow them in bignesse Those that are offended with the heate of Triacle or other of the hot Antidotes above named may use this Opiate made by an Apothecarie which is excellent for hot complexions Opiata frigida Palmarii Rs. Flor. buglossi borraginis cariophyllorum rosrub horum separatim conditorum ana unc 1. Terra Lemniae boli Armeni scobis cornu cervim una drach ij Margarit praepert drach 1. ambari grisei scrup ss Syr. de succo Buglâ—ssi q. s Fiat Opiata s a. The dose is the quantity of a Nutmeg For Women with childe Neither must women with childe be over-heated with common Antidotes Therefore theirs must be onely of Terra Lemnia Bole Armoniack Harts-horne Conserves and Syrups of Roses Violets and Betony Or a little Mithridate with twice as much conserve of Borrage or Buglosse Likewise the species de gemmis frig or of Diamargar frig in Borrage Buglosse and Carduus water Or else such may have this Antidote made for theÌ„ Rs. Cornu carvi Cynamonni nucis moschatae santalorum omnium ana drach 1. Rad. Angelicae tormentillae Enulae camp ana drach ss f. Pulvis subt
2. sayes that Socrates by tempâ—rate and discreet 〈◊〉 lived in Athens divers Plague-times yet was never touched with it 〈…〉 Now what this Dyet Preservative is I will b iâ—fly shew you Dyet consists of Sixe Points viz. Ayre Meate and Drinke Repletion and Evacuation Exercise and Rest Sleepe and Waâ—ching Passions of the Minde They are composed also in these two Verses Aër Esca Quies Repletio Gaudia Somnus Haec moderata juvant immoderata nocent These indeed are the sixe Strings of Apollo's Viall wherein consisteth the whole harmonie of health If these be in tune the body is sound But any of thâ—se too high wrested or too much slackned that is immoderately used makes a discord in nature and puts the whole body out of tune For Ayre first 〈◊〉 Ayre 〈…〉 Ayre is that which we draw in with our breath continually and wee cannot live without it one minute for it is the food of our Spirits and therefore we had need take heed that the ayre we draw be pure and wholsome The wholâ— streame of Opinion runnes upon a cold and dry Aire so commending the North and East windes as most wholsome What most unwholsom and condemning the Hot and Moist Aire engendred by the South and West windes as the fittest matter for infection because most apt to putrefaction So Hippocrates in the 2d. of his Epidem saith that in Cranon a Citie of Thessalie there arose putrid Vlcers Pustuls and Carbuncles through the hot and moyst constitution of the ayre And Galen in 1. de Temperam c. 4. affirmeth that the hot and moyst constitution of the ayre doth most of all breed pestilent diseases And from these mouthes a multitude of late Writers have learnt to speake the same thing Yet we know that the hot and dry weather also may cause a contagious ayre So saith Avenzoar in his 3. Booke 3. Tract and 1. chap. And Titus Livius in lib. 1. decad 4. recordeth that Rome was infected with the Plague by a Hot and Dry distemper of the Aire Wee also may remember that the Summer 1624 was an extreame dry and parching Summer and we cannot forget that this last Summer was not much unlike like it The Contagion indeed this yeare was begotten beyond Sea and was rock'd hither in sicke bodyes but our Ayre I feare will prove a Nurse though not a Mother to it This Spring answering to the sore-past Summer in heate and drouth Now to avoyde the mischiefes of unwholsome ayre Hippocrates the Prince of Physitians H w we may guard us froÌ„ unwholsome Aires in his Booke de Natura humana gives this counsell Providendum est ut quà m paucissimus aëris influxus corpus ingrediatur ut ille ipse quam peregrinus existat Regionum etiam locos in quibus morbus consistat quantum ejus fieri potest permutare oportet Others advise in threee words Citò Longè Tardè which Iordanus calls an Antidote made of 3. adverbs thus versifying upon them Haec tria tabificam pellunt adverbia Pestem Mox Longè Tardè Cede recede redi But I will not teach to flee for too many with Dedalus put on wings the last great visitation that with Icarus dropt downe by the way Onely my counsell is this The Authors counsaile for without doores Let every one keepe himselfe as priuate as he may Shun throngs of people and all wet close and stinking places Walke not abroad before nor after Sunne Keep moderation between heat and cold in all things yet rather encline to heate a little because of drying up superfluous moystures Let the streets bee kept cleane washing the channels every morning and evening and sweeping away all durt leaves stalkes and rootes of hearbes and offals leaving no dunghils nor other noysome matter in the streets But the water is most to be vsed in hot and dry the fire in hot and moyst weather chiefly Also in the evenings it is good to purifie the ayre with Bonefires but especially with Fire-workes or rather with discharging of peeces for Gunpowder is exceeding drying by reason of the Salt peeter and Sulphur with which it is made and by the crackes that it gives the Ayre is forcibly shaken and attenuated and so opened to let in that purification which is immediately made by the fire that goes along with it This way is commended by Levinus Lemnius de Ocultis Naturae Mirac lib. 2. cap. 10. Also by Crato in consilio 275 By Raymundus Mindererus lib. de Pestilentia cap. 20. and all the late Writers Within doores observe For within doores that little houses must not be pestered with many Lodgers for it is best for those that are able to have shift of Beds and Chambers to lie in that the ayre in them may be kept free and sweet Keepe every roome daily very cleane leaving no fluts corners Let not Water stand so long in any vessell as to putrifie which in hot weather it will soone doe Make Fires every day in everie roome in quantitie according to the largenesse of the roome and the temperature of the weather Perfume them and all the houshold-stuffe in cold and moist weather with Frankinsense Storax Benjamin Pitch Rosin Lignum alöes Lignum Rhodium Iuniper-wood or the Berries In hot and drie weather with Rose-water on a hot Fire-shovell or some such like coole fume in a perfuming-pot Strew the Windowes and ledges with Rew Wormwood Lavender Marjoram Penyriall Costmary and such like in cold weather but in hot with Primroses Violets Rose-leaves Borrage and such cooling scents For Garments Garments best guarding the vitall parts avoide as much as may bee all leather woollen and furres also velvets plush and shagge Choose such as may be watered as chamlets grograms paropas philip and chenyes and such like for their gumminesse excludeth the infectious aire best Have shift and shift often and still as cloathes are left off perfume them well Beware of buying old clothes Bedding or such like stuffe for if they have beene used by the infected they are verie dangerous as I told you before in the authoritie of a furr'd Gowne and Feather-beds What to hold in the mouth Carrie in your mouth a peece of Citron-pill or for want of that of Lemon pill a Clove or a peece of Tormentill Root Or if any will resort to me in Golding lane I will soone provide for them Lozenges to hold in their mouth sit for their constitution and such as I have had good experience of the last great Plague time What to 〈…〉 Carry in your hand a Lemon stucke with cloves sweet Marjoram Lavender Balme Rew or Wormwood as the constitution of your braine shall require For beleeve by my experience that many did enflame their braines and so fell into the Sicknesse they shunned in the last great Contragion by smelling to and carrying things in their mouthes too hot for their complexion Camphor Camphor also though it be accounted an excellent coole fume
Dein Accipè Conservae buglossi borraginis ana drach iij. cum aquali quantitate Syr. ê Limonibus rosis siccis Fiat Conditū s a. For young Children For young Children there is nothing better or fitter then Bole Armoniack or Terra Lemnia with a little Tormentill roote or Citron pills made into fine Powder and mixed with their meates butter and broths for their breakfasts And because they are not much to be tampered with by internall medicines annoint the region of their heart with oyle of Hypericon every morning and evening or with oleo Scorpionium or oleo corcino or else let them commonly weare next their skin over their heart such a Quilt as this Take of red Roses 2. drams red saunders red corrall spodium of each one dram Zedoarie lignum aloes cynnamon cloves citron pill saffron of each halfe a dram Sew it up in a peece of red Sarcenet or Calico moysten it with a little Rose-vineger so heat it and apply it warme And when it waxeth dry moystit and heate it so againe And take this note Note by the way When you suspect a Childe to have the wormes in a contagious time use not Wormseed nor those common trifles but order him as in danger of Infection for that disease comming of so much putrefaction as it does is apt to receive contagion as tinder to take fire Give it therefore ten or twenty graines of this Powder following Take of Harts-horne one dram citron pill rootes of Angelica and Tormentill Rheubarb and Coralline of each halfe a dram Make all into a fine powder and give the aforesaid quantity in a little Carduus water sweetned with some sugar After the taking of any of these Antidotes Breakfasts abstaine from all meat and drinke for two or three houres And then eate a piece of Bread and butter strewed with a little grated Nutmeg Or Bread and Sallet-oyle spiced with the powder of Tormentill rootes Or a piece of Bread sopped in White-wine allayed with a little Vineger Let your Dinner be about high noone Dinner and Supper and then eat not of above two or three several dishes Your Supper at five or sixe a clocke in the evening and then let one dish suffice For it is a pretty saying and worth the noting In the Morning a little is enough at Noone enough is but a little but at Night a little may be too much Bed time Goe not to bed till three or foure houres after Supper lest sleeping upon a full stomacke you hinder digestion And so I bid good night to the second Point of Dyet The third Point is Repletion and Evacuation Repletion Evacuatiō When you arise in the morning rub your sides armes thighes and legs downward gently your clothes being on combe your head and rub it Hake spit and blow your nose to evacuate the excrements of your head and stomacke Then assay to make water and to goe to stoole and labor to bring your body to this dayly custome For The body ought especially to bee kept free from superfluities saith Galen lib. 1. de Differ Feb. cap. 4. Therefore if you be costive use some supposistory or Clyster and suffer not two whole dayes to passe without such evacuation It is necessary that every one that hath so much understanding doe learne to know whether he be Phlethorick For Phlethoricke people or Cacochymick If Phlethorick that is full of bloud as those that live in high feeding it will appeare by his high colour full veynes pulse greater and more frequent then it used ordinarily to be pursinesse heavinesse and dulnesse of body and such like signes If you bee costive take a common Clyster first then be let bloud according to the appointment of some skilfull Physitian and so ordered afterwards according to Art If Cacochymick For Cacochymick that is full of grosse and corrupted humors which will appeare by the palenesse and ill colour of the face defective strength and the like He must be well purged which none but a Physitian can safely prescribe and that upon examination of his Body and Vrine But as a generall Generall purgings for all sorts rule all doe appoint some purging medicine twice or thrice in a weeke to keepe the Body free from the increase of superfluous humors To this purpose the Pills of RUFFUS which are common in every Shop are very apt and good Or if you please use these of mine whereof I had happy experience in the last great Visitation Rs. Aloës Rosatae unc 1. Bradwels Pilles Rhabarbari Croci ana drach 3. Myrrhae drach 6. Santali citrini drach 1. Ambari grisei scrup 1. Cum syrupi de succo citri q. s fiat s a. Massa Philularum Make Pils of 8. 10. or 12. graines a piece and take 2 or 3. at a time either at bed time or after the first sleep you may take them in Syrup of Roses or conserve of Violets or if you will in the yolke of a reare egge And it is good to drink after them when you rise in the morning in cold weather a little draught of white Wine mixed with balme-Balme-water In hot weather white-white-Wine and Succorie-water with a drop or two of oyle of Vitrioll in it But those that cannot take Pills may have this Syrup made for them which for his excellent vertue in this case is called Syrupus Divinus the Diuine Syrup Syrupus Divinus Sancti Ambrosii Rs. Cort. citri rad cappar berber santal rub citrin spodii ana drach 1. Carryophyll borrag buglossi mellissae cichorei ana unc 1. Acetosae Hepaticae marrubii ana unc ss Thymi Epithymi Scariolae Rhabarb fol. senae rad polypodii ana drach 1. Succorum absynthii fumariae ebuli Plantagenis Myrobalanorum Chebul citrin ana drach 6. Cum sacchari li. 2. ss fiat Syrupus s a. Cum aceti succi cydoniorum q. s reddatur dulcè acidus Take two or three spoonefuls of this more or lesse as it workes But keepe very warme for it causeth sweat as wel as seidge In a Manuscript of my Grandfather BANISTERS I finde this called St. AMBROSE his Syrup The same a little altered is in RENODAEVS his Disponsatorie and hee hath added two drams of Diagredium Let men of judgment doe as they please I like it best as I have set it downe RENODAEUS gives it this Title not acknowledging any Author Syrupus qui reddit corpus mundum à superfluitatibus per consequens cor cerebrum hepar et omnia alia membrae confortat Which commendations agrees with my Title for it is worthy of all commendations That Morning that you take your Purging Medicine you must forbeare your other Antidote Women with childe What Purge for women with Childe must be kept solluble onely with mild Suppositories and gentle Glysters wherein a little new drawne Cassia is to be used Or else a milde Potion made with some Pectorall Decoction and