up in a cloth. She shall shun all salt, spiced and baked meates, and in stead of wine drinke a decoction of liquerice, raisons and sorrell roots. She shall also take purging medicines, as if she were sicke of the same disease, that so her milke may become me∣dicineable. Lastly, shee shall observe the same diet as is usually prescribed to such as have the plague. You shall give the child no pappe, or if you give it any, let it bee very little. But if the child be weaned, let him abstaine from flesh, untill the feaver have left him, and the pocks bee fully come forth: in stead of flesh let him feed on barly and almond creames, chicken brothes, wherein the fore-named herbes have beene boyled, ponadoes, gellies, culasses, prunes and raisons. Let his drinke bee a ptisan made of French barly, grasse and sorrell roots, or with a nodula containing the foure cold seeds, the pulpe of prunes and raisons, with the shavings of Ivory and harrs-horne; Betweene meales the same decoction may be mixed with some syrupe of violets, but not of roses or any other astringent syrupe, lest wee hinder the course and inclination of the humour outwards. Let his sleepe be moderate, for too sound sleep drawes back the mater to the center, and encreaseth the feaver; you must nei¦ther purge, nor draw bloud the disease increasing or being at the height, unlesse per∣adventure there bee a great plenitude, or else the disease complicate with other, as with a pleurifie, inflammation of the eyes, or a squinancie which require it, lest the motion of nature should be disturbed; but you shal think it sufficient to loose the bel∣ly with a gentle glyster: but when the height of the disease is over, and in the de∣clension thereof. you may with Cassia or some stronger medicine evacuate part of the humours and the reliques of the disease. But in the state and increase it is better to use sudorificks, which by attenuating the humours and relaxing the pores of the skin may drive the cause of the disease from the center to the circumference, which otherwise residing in the body might bee a cause of death; as I and Richard Hubert observed in two maides, whereof one was foure, and the other seventeene years old; for we dissecting them both being dead, found their entrailes covered with scabby or crusted pustles, like those that break forth upon the skin. We must not think that ableeding at nose at the beginning of the disease, or in the first foure or five dayes should carry away the matter and originall of the disease, for neverthelesse the pocks will come forth; but for that this is a true and naturall crissis of this disease, as that which is carryed to the surface and circumference of the body, such bleeding must not be stopped, unlesse you feare it will cause downing. The matter shall bee drawne out with a decoction of figs, husked lentils, citron seeds, the seeds of fennell, parsly, smallage, roots of grasse, raisons and dates. For such a decoction, certainly if it have power to cause sweat, hath also a faculty to send forth unto the skin the morbificke humour; the seeds of fennell and the like opening things relaxe and open the pores of the skin; figges lenifie the acrimonie of the matter, and gently cleanse, the lentils keepe the jawes and throate, and all the inward parts from pustles, and hinder a fluxe by reason of their moderate astriction, but having their huskes on, they would bind more than is required in the disease; dates are thought to comfort the stomack, and citron seeds to defend the heart from malignity, liquerice to smooth the throat, and hinder hoarsnesse and cause sweat. But these things shall be given long after meat, for it is not fit to sweat presently after meat; some there bee who would have the child wrapped in linnen clothes steeped in this decoction being hot, and afterwards hard wrung forth. Yet I had rather to use bladders or spunges, or hot bricks for the same purpose; certainly a decoction of millet, figges and raisons, with some sugar, causeth sweat powerfully. Neither is it amisse whilest the patient is covered in all other parts of his body, and sweats, to fan his face, for thus the native heat is kept in & so streng∣thened, and fainting hindred, and a greater excretion of excrementitious humours caused. To which purpose you may also put now and then to the patients nose a no∣dulus made with a little vinegar & water of roses, camphire, the powder of sanders, and other odoriferous things which have cooling faculty, this also will keepe the nose from pustles.