A defensatiue against the plague contayning two partes or treatises: the first, shewing the meanes how to preserue vs from the dangerous contagion thereof: the second, how to cure those that are infected therewith. Whereunto is annexed a short treatise of the small poxe: shewing how to gouerne and helpe those that are infected therewith. Published for the loue and benefit of his countrie by Simon Kellwaye Gentleman.

Cap. 5.

NOw hauing receiued the fume as aforesayde•• before you goe foorth of your chamber, eate some Cordiall electuary or preseruatiue, as hereaf∣ter you shall finde choyse, which I haue alwaies vsed with good and happie succes, after taking of the Cor∣diall, wash your face and handes with cleane water, where∣in you must put a little vineger, and then if you liste, you may breake your fast with some good bread and butter, and in winter season a poycht Egge is good eaten with some vi∣negar: and for plethoricke and melancholicke bodies, it

were good to drinke a drafte of wormewood wine, in the mor∣ning fas••ing, because it resisteth putrefaction in the pletho∣••icke, and purgeth bilous matter in the melancholike.

An excellent good preseruatiue; which I haue alwayes vsed with good successe.

℞

• ...Conserue of Roses and borrage flowres of either two ounces.
• ...Minardus, Mitridat, Andromachus triacle of either halfe an ounce.
• ...Dioscordium, two drammes.
• ...Dialkermes, one dramme.
• ...Pouder of the seede of Citrons pilled one dramme.
• ...Syrop of lymons and sower Citrons of either halfe an ounce.

Compounde all these together, in the forme of an opiat you may eate hereof euery morning, the quantitie of three beanes, and drinke a drafte of Rennish wine, beére or ale, after it: but for Children and such as are of tender yeéres, so much as a beane thereof is sufficient, and giue them only beére or ale after it: the taking hereof euery seconde or third day will suffice, if you goe not into any suspected company.

An other excellent good preseruatiue.

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• ...Kernels of walenuts and figs, of either foure ounces.
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• ...Leaues of rue one ounce and halfe.
• ...Tormentill rootes iiij. drammes.
• ...Rinde of sowre Citrons one dramme.
• ...Right Bolarmoniake vj. drammes.
• ...Fine Mirre ij. scruples.
• ...Saffron one scruple.
• ...Salte halfe a dramme.
• ...Syrop of Citrons and Lymons, iiij. ounces.

The herbes, rootes, and rindes must be dried, the nuttes must be blanched, and the bolarmonyake must beé made in fine pouder, and then washt in the water of scabios, and dried againe, you must pound the figges and walenuts in a stone morter seuerally by them selues very small, all the rest must be made in fine pouder, and so mixe them altoge∣ther in the morter, and then adde therto Syrop by little and little, and so incorporat them all together: you may giue this in the same quantytie, and in like sorte as the other be∣fore.

An other very good

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• ...Of the confection a foresaid made with Nuttes, iiij. ounces.
• ...Minardus mitridat, iiij. drammes.
• ...Andromachus triacle, ij. drammes.
• ...Fine terrae Sigillatae, iiij. scruples.
• ...Syrop of Lymons, one ounce.

Compounde all these together in the morter, as the o∣ther before, you may giue hereof the waight of a groate or vi¦pence, euery second or third day, & drinke a draft of Ren∣nish

or White wine after it in winter season, but in the heate of the yeére, Sorrel water is best, and in the spring Scabios or Cardus benedictus water.

Also, so much Triacle of Andromachus discription ea∣ten euery morning as a beane, with a little conserue of Ro∣ses, is a very excellent good preseruatiue.

Valetius, doth greatly commend the taking of threé or foure graines of the Bezoar stone euery morning, in a sponefull of Scabios water.

I cānot here sufficiently commend the electuary called Dioscordium, which is not onely good to resist the infection but doth also expell the venimous matter of those which are infected, being taken euery morning and euening, the quantitie of a beane, and drinke a draft of Rennish or White wine after it, in winter season, but in sommer a draft of beére or ale is best.

In strong and rusticall bodies, and such as are daylie labourers, Garlike onely eaten in the morning with some Butter and Salt at breakfast, drinking a cup of beére or ale after it, hath bene found to beé very good: which is greatly commended by Gallen, who calleth it the poore mans Tri∣acle: but in the sanguin, daintie, and idle bodies, it may not be vsed because it ouer heateth the bloud, causeth headach, and vniuersally inflameth the whole body.

Notes

• Wormwood wine commen¦ded.
• Garlicke good in rusticall bo∣dies.